| 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: refreshments - tea and coffee (wines and ices on the Ground Floor)
Room 2 (The Office): head of a Baccante in silver parcel-gilt, formerly the bottom of a drinking bowl from Tarentum [Taranto, Italy] probably first century B.C.; exhibited by John Evans; microscopical sections, diagrams and specimens illustrating the alteration artificially produced in vitreous rocks by the action of heat alone, exhibited by Frank Rutley.
Room 3 (Reception Room): aerial effects, including a chronological series of the 'after-glows' supposed to be connected with the Krakatoa eruption, exhibited by William Ascroft; photographs and tables showing the influence of temperature on the strength of railway axles, exhibited by Thomas Andrews; portraits of Warren De La Rue F.R.S., exhibited by Anna Lea Merritt; studies of the Puya grandiflora and Lapageria alba et rosea (Chili) orchids, curious nests &c., exhibited by Marianne North.
Room 4 (Reading Room): models of the Romano-British village nrea Rushmore, on the borders of Dorset and Wiltshire, between Salisbury and Blandford, exhibited by Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers; two large diagrams, Roraima British Guinea by Mr. Im Thurn, a similar formation in the north of Brazil by Mr. Wells, collection of minerals from the summit of Mount Roraima, exhibited by the Royal Geographical Society.
Room 5 (Principal Library): Dr. Auer von Welsbach's incandescent system of burning gas, exhibited by Conrad William Cooke; the unpaired parietal eye of Spenodon, the sense organ of the Epiphysis Vertebrata, exhibited by J. Baldwin Spencer; collection of astronomical photographs by the Brothers Henry, Jannsen and others, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer; collection of astronomical photographs original negatives and enlargements on paper and glass, exhibited by Andrew Ainslie Common; photographs of the Sun, exhibited by the Solar Physics Committee; charts of Grenada, exhibited by the Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society; star maps of the southern heavens, photographed at the Cape of Good Hope Observatory, exhibited by David Gill; chloride of silver battery for electric light, exhibited by Warren De La Rue and Hugo Muller; rare earths from Samarskite, Gadolinite &c., with illustrations of their phosphorescent spectra, exhibited by William Crookes; Juler's refractive ophthalmoscope with special arrangements for the electric light, exhibited by Messrs. Pickard and Curry; pumice, volcanic ash, drawings, diagrams &c., illustrative of the effects produced by the great eruption of the island of Krakatoa,, Java, in August 1883, exhibited by the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society; living fire-flies of the Riviera, exhibited by William Turner Thiselton Dyer; plates illustrating the land molluscs of India, exhibited by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen; original drawings of rotifera, exhibited by Philip Henry Gosse; cultivations of micro-organisms found in air, apparatus employed in the examination of air for micro-organisms, exhibited by Percy Faraday Frankland; foraminifera from the London Clay dug up in Piccadilly, exhibited by C D Sherborn; upper Silurian Ostracoda, exhibited by Thomas Rupert Jones; two large photographs of curious crystalline groups afforded by new derivatives of thiocarbamide, crystals of the same shown by polarized light, two glass vases plated with Galena by means of Thiocarbamide, exhibited by Emerson Reynolds; collection of gems, exhibited by Bryce McMurdo Wright; Captain Cook's chronometers, the first Newtonian telescope, the first Davy Lamp, Dr. Wollaston's thimble-battery, Huygens' and Flamsteed's object-glasses and other curiosities, exhibited by the Royal Society.
Ground Floor (Committee Room): telephonic communication with the Savoy Theatre - 'The Mikado', exhibited by the United Telephone Company.
Ground Floor (Meeting Room): exhibition by means of the lime-light of photographs of celestial phenomena and microscopical sections of devitrified rocks. At 9.30 and 10.30 Mr. Lockyer will demonstrate the stellar and solar photographs. At 10.00 Mr. Common will demonstrate the photographs of nebulae and comets. At 11.00 Mr. Rutley will demonstrate the microscopic sections of devitrified rocks. 1. A series of photographs illustrating some recent advances in celestial photography, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer; 2. Photographs of planets, comets and nebulae, exhibited by Andrew Ainslie Common; 3. Microscopical sections illustrating the alteration of artificially produced in vitreous rocks by the action of heat alone, exhibited by Frank Rutley.
The shrubs and flowers exhibited by the Royal Horticultural Society. |