| 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 and Ground Floor.
Room 1 (Offficer's Room): colour photometer for comparing the luminosity of colours and for testing the perception of colour, exhibited by William de Wiveleslie Abney and General Edward Robert Festing.
Room 2 (The Office): electrical apparatus, exhibited by the Electrical Power Storage Company Limited; objects connected with the Hell-Gate Explosion near New York, exhibited by Hermann Sprengel; portable electric lamps for use in coal mines, exhibited by James Pitkin; new electrical influence machine having eight discs working within a glass case, exhibited by James Wimshurst.
Room 3 (Reception Room): watercolour drawings of alpine primulas by Dr. Sendter of Munich, exhibited by Maxwell Tylden Masters; aerial effects, exhibited by William Ascroft; a gravity escapement for use in a precision clock, exhibited by Leonard Waldo; photograph of an original model of the country round London scale 1 inch to 1 mile, Jordan's photographic sunshine recorder with specimens of observations, diagram table of British strata designed for use in the lecture room, exhibited by J. B. Jordan, Mineral Statistics Branch, Home Office; 12-inch and 8-inch Sun photographs, Indian series, 8-inch Sun photograph, Mauritius series, exhibited by the Solar Physics Committee.
Room 4 (Reading Room): ethnological collection illustrative of life in Russia, Central Asia and Siberia, exhibited by Rev. Henry Lansdell; Hermann Ritter's perspectograph, exhibited by Mr. C. W. English; original geological map of the Orange Free State and section of part of Cape Colony [South Africa], by the late George William Stow (unpublished), fossil ostracoda from the Purbeck, Carboniferous and Silurian formation, exhibited by Thomas Rupert Jones; foraminifera from the London Clay dug up in Piccadilly and undescribed Ostracoda from the Fuller's Earth Oolite, exhibited by Charles Davies Sherborn; terrestrial globe showing magnetic meridians for the epoch 1880 and general distribution of the secular change of the declination, made for the Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty, exhibited by Staff-Commander Ettrick William Creak; induction bridge invented by David Edward Hughes, exhibited by W. Groves; specimens of daily synchronous charts of the North Atlantic from August 1882 to August 1883 now in the course of preparation by the Meteorological Office, exhibited by the Meteorological Council; original sketches to illustrate 'Three thousand miles through Brazil', exhibited by James William Wells; apparatus for automatic enumeration of movements of fingers or other parts of the human body, exhibited by Dr. F. Warner.
Room 5 (Principal Library): star maps of the southern heavens photographed at the Cape of Good Hope Observatory, South Africa, exhibited by David Gill; charts of Grenada, exhibited by the Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society; new and interesting plants, exhibited by William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Director of the Royal Gardens Kew; electrical wind vane and indicator, exhibited by Mr. F. M. Rogers; photographs and tables showing the effects of temperature on the strength of railway axles, exhibited by Thomas Andrews; Dr. Sohlberg's celestial globe of glass, Dr. Schmidt's telerium, cosmographic clocks for universal time, contoured map of the English Lake District by Mr. Jordan, enlarged photographs taken by Joseph Thomson in his recent journey up the Niger, replica Frankfort Globe of 1520, two large diagrams of Roraima, British Guinea by Mr. Im Thurn and a similar formation in North Brazil by Mr. Wells, collection of minerals from the summit of Mount Roraima, exhibited by the Royal Geographical Society; voltaic cells with solid electrolytes, exhibited by Shelford Bidwell; early stages of development of the Monotremata-Ornithorhynchus and Echnida, the Dipnoid ceratodus, and some marsupial genera, exhibited by William Hay Caldwell; diagrammatic sections showing the geological structure and physical features of parts of the Arabia Petraea and Palestine, exhibited by Edward Hull, Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland; large model in glass of Bees' cells described in Proceedings of the Royal Society (26 November 1885) also small plaster models, exhibited by Henry Hennessy; mesial sections from a chimpanzee and an orang-utang, exhibited by Daniel John Cunningham; Dr Auer von Welsbach's incandescence system of burning gas, exhibited by Conrad William Cooke; argyrodite a mineral containing silver and germanium, specimens of the new element germanium and some of its compounds, exhibited by Hugo Muller; chloride of silver battery for electric light, exhibited by Warren De La Rue and Hugo Muller; photo-micrographs of bacteria, exhibited by Edgar March Crookshank; micro-organisms, exhibited by Mr. F. R. Cheshire; preparations illustrating the histological structures of the secretory systems of certain plants in which the substances secreted are of economic importance, exhibited by Mr. W. Gardiner; the unpaired parietal eye of Sphenodon, exhibited by J. Baldwin Spencer; electrical appliances, exhibited by Messrs. Woodhouse and Rawson; strain indicators, exhibited by Charles Edmund Strohmeyer; split grating spectroscope, collection of astronomical photographs by the brothers Henry, Janssen and others, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer; solar drawings made at Stonyhurst College Observatory April 1884 to April 1886, exhibited by Stephen Joseph Perry; copies on glass and paper of some stellar and planetary photographs and of the dumb-bell nebula, by Mr. Common and some star plates and a photograph of Saturn by M. M. Henry of Paris, exhibited by Andrew Ainslie Common; Immisch's pocket thermometer, exhibited by George James Symons; model of proposed equatorial land Observatory for the great 36-inch refractor for the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California, exhibited by Howard Grubb; collection of stone-headed arms, implements &c., from New Guinea, exhibited by Henry Bowman Brady; new objective by Professor Ernst Karl Abbe of Jena, exhibited by Frank Crisp; Nolls' apparatus for demonstrating secondary growth in thickness of stems, Hopfe's collections Phytomicrotomicae, exhibited by Isaac Bayley Balfour; apparatus for measuring the luminosity of leaves, exhibited by Dr. Gorham.
Ground Floor: apparatus for showing stereoscopic effects on screen, an instrument for enlarging the angle of vision by means of reflectors, exhibited by John Mattias Augustus Stroh; model of a high-speed hydraulic engine for driving electric light, exhibited by Mr. A. Rigg; specimens of miners' electric lamp, exhibited by Joseph Wilson Swan; machine for solving equations, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys. |