| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibitors at the Royal Society's annual displays at Burlington House, London, with occasional descriptive text. Arranged by rooms. Rooms 1-5.
Room 1: experiments showing the variations caused by magnetization in the length of iron, steel and nickel rods, the spectral image produced by a slowly rotating vacuum tube, exhibited by Shelford Bidwell.
Room 2: new combination stretcher sling combining the support of the hips with that of the shoulders in carrying its occupant for long distances, exhibited by John Denis Macdonald, Inspector-General Royal Navy; series of maps showing the monthly distribution of bright sunshine in the British Isles for 5 years, exhibited by the Meteorological Council.
Room 3 (Reception Room): sketches of the eclipse of the Moon, 4 October 1884, sketches of sunset and afterglow observed 1883-1884 [caused by the Krakatoa volcanic eruption], exhibited by William Ascroft.
Room 4 (Reading Room): original drawings of the skeletal digestive and vocal organs of birds made in the years 1842-1846, exhibited by William Kitchen Parker; combustion of various metals in the electric arc under the microscope (Stokes-Watson apparatus), exhibited by Frank Crisp; Gorham's tubular balance for medical practitioners, 'one minute' clinical thermometer, 12-inch opal glass thermometer on ebony back, self-registering maximum and minimum thermometers, self-registering aneroid barometer with lever clock in handsome oak case for yachting of gall purposes, universal sunshine recorder and sun dial, with Professor Stokes' zodiacal frame, air meter for measuring the velocity of air currents in sewers, mines, hospitals &c., exhibited by Charles Coppock.
Room 5 (Principal Library): flowering specimens of Himalayan Rhododendrons, fruiting branch of coffee, illustrations of different forms of leaves in the same species, implements used in collecting and preparing Para India Rubber, exhibited by William Turner Thiselton-Dyer; Palaeolithic implements from the valley of the Thames and its tributaries, exhibited by John Evans; collection of Pueblo Indian pottery and charms from Zuni (New Mexico), exhibited by Henry Nottidge Moseley; two decorated American Indian shields Apache and Zuni, exhibited by Edward Burnet Tylor; ethnographic photographs of Russians, Kalmucks, North American Indian and half-breeds, Hindus, Central Africans and others, exhibited by the Anthropological Institute; instruments for drawing curves of sines adapted to graphical representation of the harmonic components of periodical phenomena, exhibited by Lieutenant-General Richard Strachey; photographs of fractures of railway carriage and wagon axles tested to destruction by Thomas Andrews, Wortley Iron Works near Sheffield, exhibited by Thomas Andrews; model of Daw & Son's dictation and verbatim type reporter and writer, drawings of printer's stereotype matrix mixer and drawings of a typewriter, exhibited by Thomas George Daw; iridio platinum weights density 21'5660 absolutely adjusted, unfinished kilogrammes and etalons employed by the Comite International du Metre of the same density, platinum wire .00075 of an inch prepared by drawing; platinum wire prepared by the Wollaston process, exhibited by George Matthey; two new applications of the spherical integrator, exhibited by Henry Selby Hele Shaw; sunshine recorder invented by Herbert McLeod, improved thermometers and new measures, delicate aneroid reading to one foot, new medical lamp, exhibited by Mr James Joseph Hicks; a new microtome for cutting continuous ribbons of sections, new microscope, exhibited by Messrs. R. & J. Beck; large grating spectroscope with position circle and protuberance slit, a most delicate star photo-spectrometer with quartz lenses and Iceland spar prisms for the Elphinstone College Observatory, Bombay, India, one concave and two plane speculum metal gratings in mountings, selection of direct vision spectroscopes, the new Kensington Laboratory student spectroscope as per instructions of Norman Lockyer, one-inch radius spherometer, a new fan governor made for the Observatory of Rio de Janeiro, large prisms of various constructions, exhibited by Adam Hilger; specimens of cerebral arteries in morbid state, exhibited by Charles Handfield Jones; drawings from the collection of Lady Mary Impey at Calcutta, painted by a native of Patna (1778-1782), exhibited by the Linnaean Society.
Ground Floor: refreshments. |