| 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: refreshments - tea and coffee (wines and ices on the Ground Floor).
Room 2 (Secretary's Room): geological map (unpublished) of Palestine and Arabia Petraea, coloured pictures of mounted Arabs, exhibited by Edward Hull; original drawings of the skeletal digestive and vocal organs of birds made in the years 1842-1846, exhibited by William Kitchen Parker; sketches of the eclipse of the Moon, 4 October 1884, sketches of sunset and afterglow 1884 [caused by the Krakatoa volcanic eruption], sketches of Eastend House, Parson's Green, Fulham (residence of the late Mrs Fitzherbert) and various studies made in the grounds including the 'Fulham Cedar', Spring and Autumn sketches of the Maiden-hair tree (native of Japan) Apothecaries Garden, Chelsea, exhibited by William Ascroft.
Room 3 (Reception Room): portrait of George Busk F.R.S., F.L.S., painted by Ellen Martha Busk, exhibited by the Linnaean Society; examples of autotype reproduictions of pictures in the National Gallery, Joseph Mallord William Turner's 'Liber Studiorum', Leonardo da Vinci's 'Last Supper' and other works, frame of auto-gravures after coins (the series is continued in Room 5), exhibited by the Autotype Company, New Oxford Street.
Room 4 (Reading Room): star charting by photography, enlarged prints from negatives made in 1883 and 1884, exhibited by Andrew Ainslie Common; electrical influence machine, exhibited by James Wimshurst; new microscope with novel fine adjustment and substage arrangement, substage conductor for students' microscopes, exhibited by Henry Crouch; new form of projection-polariscope, large Nicol prism polariscope for projecting axes of crystals on the screen, new form of circular level, exhibited by Messrs. Harvey and Peak; Tate's calculating machine, exhibited by Samuel Tate; photo-star spectroscope, grating spectroscope, new solar eyepiece, pocket spectroscope, prisms of different material, as flint-glass, Iceland spar and quartz, students' spherometer, exhibited by Adam Hiilger; series of jade weapons from New Zealand and New Caledonia, exhibited by the Rt. Hon. George John Carnegie, Earl of Northesk; Maori weapons from the King Country, New Zealand with portrait of King Tawhiao from life by Sepping Wright, specimens of gold-bearing quartz, auriferous iron sand, zinc blend and copper pyrites containing gold and silver, titaniferous iron sand from Taranaki and other minerals from New Zealand, exhibited by James Henry Kerry-Richards; photographs of fractures of railway carriage and wagon axles tested to destruction by Thomas Andrews, Wortley Iron Works near Sheffield, exhibited by Thomas Andrews.
Room 5 (Principal Library): three cases of living animals, examples of the Tuatera (Sphenodon punctatus) from New Zealand, large bird-eating spider, probably Mygale fasciata, from Burma, butterflies and moths showing the way in which living insects ar exhibited in the Zoological Society's Insect House, exhibited by the Zoological Society of London; series of microscopical sections of vegetable tissues prepared and lent by J. E. Sunderland of Hatherlow, near Stockport, series of botanical microscopic preparations mounted by Charles Smith of Carmarthen illustrating the text-books of Julius Sachs and Otto Thome, exhibited by Henry Nottidge Moseley; a series of slides with stained specimens of Taenia echinococcus of the dog, prepared and lent by Dr. J. Davies Thomas of Adelaide, Australia, paper to be read before the Royal Society on 18 June, a slide showing the same species of tapeworm reared by Edward Nettleship from hydratids obtained from the lungs of sheep (Royal Society Proceedings 1866), specimens of Taenia serrata, T. marginata, T. Caenurus &c., artificially reared by Charles Cobbold, exhibited by Charles Cobbold; gelatine cultivations of micro-organisms in water, exhibited by Percy F, Frankland; pond life, wing of Urania and other objects under the microscope, exhibited by Frank Crisp; Polypodium fragans, a new scented fern from the Himalayas, exhibited by T. P. Collings; antique silver plate of foreign origin, Italian embroideries chiefly of the 16th century, exhibited by Arthur Herbert Church; Greek coins and English medals, exhibited by John Evans; wood carvings, antique and modern, including a pair of buffet doors from Nuremburg, 15th century, a floral mirror frame by William Gibbs Rogers and gong-stand designed by G. A. Rogers and carved by a pupil Miss A. J. Champion, exhibited by George Alfred Rogers; group of crystals of Stibnite, Japan and case of minerals, including emerald on matrix and many others, exhibited by Samuel Henson; case of gems including a great Indian diamond, the largest known opal, a series of cat's eyes and allied mineralogical specimens, exhibited by Bryce Wright; Frith's selenium cells, exhibited by William Grylls Adams; a sulphur cell, exhibited by Shelford Bidwell; diffraction phenomena produced by fine lines erased on a blackened doc and held in a beam of diverging light, falsely ribbed venation of Myrtaceae repeated in each lobe of Pimpinella saxifrage and P. magna, exhibited by Dr. Gorham; original integrating machine invented by Charles Vernon Boys, engine power meter and a new instrument for testing the condition of eggs; exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys; new apparatus for colour combinations, exhibited by H. H. Hoffert; new form of hospital construction, designs for small cottage hospitals, asylum plans and a new form of isolation ward (London Fever Hospital), exhibited by Henry Charles Burdett; watercolour drawings exhibited by George Barnard, photographs and photogravures by the Berlin Photographic Company, exhibited by J, Gerson, 5 Rathbone Place; landscapes and studies in autotype, exhibited by Vernon Heath; new expansion apparatus invented by Mr. Rodwell in use at the Standards' Office, exhibited by Henry James Chaney; samples of Edison incandescent lamps exhibiting molecular shadows and transparent deposit of copper, exhibited by John Ambrose Fleming; shrubs and flowers, exhibited by the Royal Horticultural Society. |