| 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, Annexe and Ground Floor. Commencing with a list of the exhibit demonsrations taking place at specific times and a note stating that: 'an electric bell will ring before each performance of the Cornet, during which Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to remain silent'.
Room 1: refreshments, tea and coffee (wines and ices on the Ground Floor).
Room 2 (The Office):
1. Ten feet measuring rod, for the rapid measurement of base lines over uneven ground, with an accuracy of not less than 1 in 100,000, exhibited by Edward Crossley.
2. Two drawings illustrating properties of the diameters of plane cubics (see Proc. Roy. Soc., no.255) exhibited by John James Walker.
3. Apparatus for shooting threads of glass, emerald, quartz, &c., exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
4. Specimens of pearls and oyster pearl shells, exhibited by Messrs. Streeter & Company.
5. Drawings illustrating the microscopic structure of pearls, exhibited by George Harley.
6. Photographs of lion cubs, 6 months old, bred in the gardens of the Royal Zoological Society, Dublin, exhibited by Greenwood Pim.
7. Orthochromatic photography, exhibited by the Autotype Company, London. With specimens of orthochromatic photography, exhibited by Charles H. Bothamley.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
8. Sketches of aerial effects, exhibited by William Ascroft.
9. Drawings of Bromeliaceae from the collection of the late Professor [Charles Francois Antoine] Morren of Liege, purchased for presentation to the Royal Gardens, Kew, exhibited by the Bentham Trustees.
Room 4 (Reading Room):
10. Diagrams of the Congo River, showing the results of recent explorations, exhibited by the Royal Geographical Society.
11. Electric rifle sight, invented by Walter Winans, exhibited by Messrs. Harvey and Peak.
12. British fossils (Upper Cretaceous Group) lower and upper chalk, from Blue Bell Hill, Burham, Kent, and specimens of the marbles of Japan, exhibited by Mr. S. J Hawkins.
13. Exotic lepidoptera belonging to the following genera - Ornithoptera, Papilio, Hestia, Morpho, Caligo, exhibited by Herbert Druce.
14. Types of British Cicadinae (frog-hoppers and grass-flies), exhibited by George Bowdler Buckton.
15. Optical experiments, exhibited by Arthur William Rucker.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
16. Instantaneous photographs of animals in action. Photographed (by aid of a grant from the German Government) by Mr. Ottomar Anschutz, exhibited by Mr. Schlossmann.
17. Cast in bronze of the model for M. [Michel Eugene] Chevreul's Medal, struck on his 100th birthday, exhibited by Warren De La Rue.
18. Onyx cameo of the head of Medusa, found in the Tiber in Rome, Greek work, probably of the first century, exhibited by John Evans.
19. Fine living specimen of the electric eel (Gymnotus electricus) received by the Zoological Society July 1884, case of lepidopterous insects, bred in the Society's insect house, exhibited by the Zoological Society of London.
20. Various landscape, tree, and foreground studies, printed in permanent pigments, exhibited by Vernon Heath.
21. A form of equilibrium of a rotating mass of fluid, exhibited by George Howard Darwin.
22. A volume containing 185 autographs letters, 125 from John Flamsteed, to Abraham Sharp of Little Horton, Bradford, separate autograph letters from Edmund Halley and others, an arithmetical machine invented by Viscount Mahon (Charles, Earl Stanhope) in 1780 and the Stanhope demonstrator, and instrument for performing logical operations (see Mind v.4 pp.192-210), exhibited by Rev. Robert Harley.
23. 'The Chromatics of the Sky' (sunsets and sunrises, foreglows and afterglows, and atmospheric phenomena), exhibited by John Sanford Dyason.
24. Experiments on the effects of rolling contact, exhibited by Henry Selby Hele Shaw.
25. Some of Dr. J. Puluj's vacuum tubes made by Muller of Bonn, exhibited by Warren De La Rue and Hugo Muller.
26. Maps and sections of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, exhibited by Archibald Geike, Director General of the Geological Survey.
27. Fossil fish (Chrondrosteus acipenseroides, Agassiz) from the Lias, Lyme Regis, exhibited by J. W. Davis.
28. Specimens illustrating the process of disintegration in flints, exhibited by John Wesley Judd.
29. Telephone transmitting cornet solo from Brighton, exhibited by the United Telephone Company.
30. Early microscopes, pond life and other microscopic objects, exhibited by Frank Crisp.
31. Twelve samplers (three English, seven German, one Swedish, one Swiss, 17th-18th centuries), exhibited by Frances Evans [Mrs. John Evans].
32. Electrical influence machine, exhibited by James Wimshurst.
33. Group of new and interesting plants, exhibited by William Turner Thiselton Dyer, Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew.
34. Electrical irradiation of precious stones, minerals and rare earths in radiant matter tubes, exhibited by William Crookes.
35. Experiments showing the difference between line and fluted spectra, photographs showing line and fluted spectra, Henry Draper Memorial photographs, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
36. Experiments with coated crystals in different solutions and experiments with supersaturated solutions, exhibited by John Millar Thomson.
37. Antimonite (from Professor John Milne of Tokyo), some New South Wales minerals and a new metallic meteorite, Queensland, exhibited by Archibald Liversidge.
38. Frame containing a collection of Moa feathers (Dinornis) from a cave at Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand and specimen plates from ''Birds of New Zealand', exhibited by Sir Walter Buller.
39. Sketches of the planets Jupiter and Mars, exhibited by Lawrence Parsons, the 4th Earl of Rosse.
40. Experimental photographs taken with the 12 ¾-inch refractor of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, exhibited by Sir Willian Christie, the Astronomer Royal.
41. Photographs taken in connection with the construction and testing of a fire-proof reflecting telescope, exhibited by Andrew Ainslie Common.
42. Chrysalides and living larvae showing the influence of surroundings upon their colours, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
43. Specimens of microbes shown under a microscope and in cultivations, exhibited by Edward Emanuel Klein.
44. Some new micro-organisms obtained from water, exhibited by Percy Faraday Frankland.
In the Annexe:
45. Apparatus for reproducing audibly the vibrations of liquid jets. Jet Telephone, exhibited by Chichester Alexander Bell.
Room 6 (Archives Room):
46. Telephonic communication with the Savoy Theatre - Ruddigore (by kind permission of Richard D'Oyly Carte), exhibited by the United Telephone Company.
Room 7 (Meeting Room):
47. Twenty-eight photographs of clouds, and apparatus for measuring their height, exhibited by Ralph Abercromby.
48. Photographic views illustrating the execution of the work of the 1,700 feet span bridge across the Firth of Forth, exhibited by Sir John Fowler and Benjamin Baker.
49. Demonstration of the microscopic structure of pearls from Oriental, Australian, and native oysters, showing the different modes of their construction, exhibited by George Harley.
The shrubs and flowers exhibited by the Royal Horticultural Society.
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