| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibitors at the Royal Society's annual displays at Burlington House, London, with occasional descriptive text. This version is headed: 'Occasional Meeting'. A simple list, not arranged by rooms in the usual manner.
Etched portrait of Thomas Henry Huxley, President of the Royal Society, presented by Joseph Cundall, for the Fine Art Society, exhibited by [the Royal Society].
Microscopical specimens showing the structure of the eyes in the shells of the Chitonidae, wax models of the eyes, much enlarged, exhibited by Henry Nottidge Moseley.
Microscopical specimens illustrating the structure of the eye in insects, exhibited by Sydney Hickson.
A new form of condenser for the microscope, which materially increases the range of focal depth and orthostereoscopic effects, in action, exhibited by Dr. [George Charles] Wallich.
The dichord of double monochord with movable finger-boards for correctly sounding any musical interval expressed in hundredths of an equal semitone…described in Mr A. J. Ellis's paper read on 20th November 1884, exhibited by Alexander John Ellis.
The cylindroid or conoid of [Julius] Plucker, a ruled cubic surface occurring in the theory of screws, exhibited by Robert Stawell Ball, Royal Astronomer of Ireland.
Pupil photometer, and system for the construction of crystal models from a nre stand-point by the Plaiting process, exhibited by Dr. Gorham.
Sphere and roller mechanism, exhibited by Henry Selby Hele Shaw.
Physiological spectra of myohaematin, haematoporphyria from the integument of Uraster rubens, chlorophyll from the livers of invertebrates and other preparations, exhibited by Dr. [Charles Alexander] McMunn.
Iridescent crystals of chlorate of potash showing a peculiar spectrum, exhibited by George Gabriel Stokes.
Microscopical preparations, exhibited by Mr. W. Gardiner
Microscope specimens of bacteria in Asiatic cholera, culture tubes of those bacteria, exhibited by Emanuel Edward Klein.
Illustrations of [Charles] Darwin's potato Solanum maglia, drift seeds collected off the coast of New Guinea by the Challenger Expedition, illustrations of insect white wax from China and its mode of occurrence, specimens of the square bamboo from China and Japan, photographs (life size) of female cones of two species of Encephalartos from South Africa, exhibited by William Turner Thiselton-Dyer.
Casts of Rhytina bones from Behring Island, cast of brain of Rhytina and ear-bones, photographs of Elasmotherium, exhibited by Henry Woodward on behalf of Robert Damon.
Maori weapons, mats, and minerals from the 'King-Country' New Zealand, exhibited by James Henry Kerry-Nicholls.
Photographs of scenes in the petroleum regions of Pennsylvania, exhibited by William Augustus Tilden.
Photographs from Baku and the petroleum regions of Southern Russia, exhibited by Mr. Redwood.
Microscopic pathological specimens, exhibited by Dr. Silcock.
Specimens of the deposits from the hot geysers of Yellowstone Park, State of Wyoming, United States, exhibited by George Harley.
A new surveying level, exhibited by Horace Darwin. |