| 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 Meeting Room, Ground Floor.
Room 1: Dioptric fixed light, dioptric totally reflecting glass mirror, dioptric holophote, lamp burner to the design of James Nicholas Douglass, exhibited by Messrs Chance Brothers and Co.; Electro-torsion apparatus; exhibited by George Gore; newly constructed ear-trumpets, exhibited by Charles James Blasius Williams; specimen maps of government surveys in European Countries, America and India, the Seal Islands of Alaska, and photographs of scenes in China, exhibited by the Royal Geographical Society; series of Copal gums from East Africa, exhibited by Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Room 2: Experiments to illustrate attraction and repulsion resulting from radiation, exhibited by William Crookes; electrical recorder for registering time, speed, distance run and number of passengers inside and out in trams and omnibuses, exhibited by Wildman Whitehouse and Latimer Clark; mercury and alcohol thermometers for comparative experimental purposes, exhibited by George James Symons; microscopes, exhibited by Messrs. Powell and Lealand; Spongozoa specimens mounted for the microscope, exhibited by Henry John Carter; autotype landscapes, exhibited by Vernon Heath; Tappa dresses from Fiji, exhibited by Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Room 3: pair of new Paradise birds from New Guinea collected by Signor Luigi Maria D'Albertis, exhibited by Philip Lutley Sclater; coloured drawings of the flora of Brazil with landscapes, exhibited by Marianne North; specimens of invertebrate from the Challenger Expedition, exhibited by Charles Wyville Thomson; coloured drawings of New Zealand birds, exhibited by Walter Lawry Buller; panorama and photographs of the Himalayas, exhibited by General Richard Strachey.
Room 4: on the stoppage of sound by non-homogenous mixtures of air and vapours, with Felix Savart's action of sound on a water jet, exhibited by John Tyndall; mechanical refraction apparatus for educational purposes by Edward Burnet Tylor. Tisley's compound pendulum apparatus, and geometric chuck fitted with a pen for drawing curves, exhibited by Tisley and Spiller; photographs of fluorescent substances, exhibited by John Hall Gladstone; lithographed plates of foraminifera from Abrolhos Bank [off the coast of Brazil], exhibited by William Kitchen Parker and Thomas Rupert Jones; photographs of the Naples Aquarium, exhibited by William Alford Lloyd; photographs of Felix Anton Dohrn's zoological station at Naples, exhibited by Charles Darwin; dissecting and selecting microscope, exhibited by Peter Martin Duncan; experiments on the agglomeration of finely divided metals by hydrogen, exhibited by Mr. A. Tribe; photographs of solar spectra enlarged by Negretti and Zambra, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer; deep sea and atmospheric self-recording thermometers, exhibited by Negretti and Zambra.
Room 5 (Principal Library): electrical apparatus for the 'Block System' or 'Space Interval' between trains on the South Eastern Railway, exhibited by Charles Vincent Walker; automatic spectroscope designed by William Henry Mahoney Christie, micrometer designed by George Parker Bidder junior, spectroscope for observing fluorescent rays of the spectrum, and direct vision prism for faint spectra, exhibited by John Browning; megohm of one million British Association units and model of an absolute galvanometer, exhibited by Messrs. Elliott Brothers; models of a fireproof building and of an apparatus for indicating the speed of steam engine shafts invented by Sir David Salomons, exhibited by Alfred Apps; improved astronomical sextant, exhibited by Captain J. E. Davis; specimens of gold crystals, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts [later Roberts-Austen], Royal Mint; logograph, recording instrument to show the pneumatic action of the human voice, exhibited by William Henry Barlow; watercolour drawings of alpine scenes and glaciers and of Wotton, Surrey, exhibited by George Barnard; living corals (Astroides calicula) from the Bay of Naples , exhibited by the Crystal Palace Aquarium Company; gyrostat, exhibited by Sir William Thomson; double-action spectroscope with divided object glass by Grubb of Dublin, exhibited by Lord Lindsay; copies and photographs of of sacred icons of the Greek Church in Russia,, exhibited by John Leighton.
Meeting Room (Ground Floor): Experiments to illustrate a form of contractive energy, exhibited by Dr. R. [Richard Hill?] Norris, Birmingham.
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