| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibitors at the Royal Society's annual displays at Burlington House, London, with descriptive text. Arranged by rooms. Rooms 1-5 and Ground Floor. Commencing with a list of the exhibits taking place at specific times during the evening.
Room 1 (Officers' Room):
1. The 'Trainter' graphophone, exhibited by Mr. J. W. Howard by permission of Henry Edmunds.
Room 2 (The Office):
2. The tintometer, exhibited by Joseph William Lovibond, of Salisbury.
3. Portable Cavendish apparatus for demonstrating the attraction of gravitation, experiment showing the insulation of quartz, and apparatus for testing the elasticity of fibres, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
Room 4 (Council Room):
4. Results of experiments with working model of the tidal Seine, exhibited by Leveson Francis Vernon Harcourt.
5. Fractures from castings and forgings of manganese steel, containing from 10% to 36% Mn., illustrating the influence of different combinations of iron and manganese, exhibited by Robert Abbot Hadfield.
6. Maps to illustrate the direction and magnitude of the regional magnetic disturbing forced in the British Isles, exhibited by Arthur William Rucker and Thomas Edward Thorpe.
7. Photographic map of the normal solar spectrum (seconds series) made by Professor [Henry Augustus] Rowland, exhibited by William Crookes.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
8. New planisphere, exhibited by Professor Charles Pritchard.
9. Pocket almanac and memorandum book of John Locke, dated 1669, exhibited by George Charles Williamson.
10. Chronograph for measuring the velocity of projectiles and small periods of time, and Holden hydrometer, exhibited by Henry Capel Lofft Holden.
11. An automatic safety device for use in connection with electric light circuits when alternating current transformers are employed, exhibited by Killingworth Hedges.
12. A model illustrating the formation of ocean currents, exhibited by Arthur William Clayden.
13. Pitkin and Niblett's fire-damp meter, and pocket electric lamp, exhibited by James Pitkin.
14. A series of ancient wreaths and plant remains from the cemetery of Hawara, Egypt, exhibited by Percy E Newberry, by kind permission of the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew.
15. Head of Thomson's gazelle (Gazella thomsoni) from a specimen shot by H. C. V. Hunter in Masailand, Eastern Africa, and head of Grant's gazelle (Gazellla grangti) from a specimen shot by Frederick Holmwood, in the Kilmanjaro District of Eastern Africa, exhibited by Philip Lutley Sclater.
16. Gramme ring, rotating under the influence of the magnetism of the Earth, exhibited by Joseph Wilson Swan.
17. Combustion in dried oxygen, exhibited by Herbert Brereton Baker.
18. An experiment showing an effect of light in magnetising iron, exhibited by Shelford Bidwell.
19. Map showing the sequences of changes in the spectrum of a typical new star, provisional map showing the order of temperature of various celestial bodies of Group I (nebulae, comets near aphelion, and bright 'Stars'), photographs of the solar spectrum (K-D) compared with the spectrum of a mixture of stony meteorites taken between iron meteoritic poles, the electric arc being employed, photographs of the arc spectrum of the Obernkirchen meteorite compared with that of electrolytic iron, portion of a new map of the solar spectrum in course of construction at South Kensington, photographs of the spectrum of Saturn's ring, photographs of sections of meteorites, experiments on the spectra of magnesium and manganese in connection with the spectra of nebulae and the aurora, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
20. Preparations of the new element Gnomium, recently discovered by Gerhard Kruss and F.W. Schmidt of Munich.
21. Illustrations of the new and the old astronomy, exhibited by Isaac Roberts.
22. Hollow cylinder and sphere used in the re-determination of the weight of a cubic-inch of distilled water 1889, exhibited by Henry James Chaney.
23. Voltaic balance, exhibited by George Gore.
24. Air meter for registering high velocities, exhibited by William Henry Dines.
25. Films of metal and metallic oxides deposited by electric sparks, exhibited by Walter Noel Hartley.
26. Hair from the Yenisei Mammoth, obtained by F. Schmidt of the Acad, Sci. St, Petersburgh, exhibited by Harry Govier Seeley.
27. Drawings illustrating the feeding of Scrobiculariae, exhibited by Henry Clifton Sorby.
28. A cluster of nests of a species of Swift (Collocalia) taken in one of the Society Islands, a specimen of Pluvianellus sociabilis, a plover obtained in South America, the tail of a Japanese Barndoor Cock, eleven feet long, exhibited by Mr. J. Young.
29. Calcedonified tree-trunk from Arizona, USA, trasverse tangential and radial microscopical sections of wood, exhibited by William Henry Preece.
30. Egyptian Blue ('Vesterien') artificially prepared by Professor Ferdinand Andre] Fouque of the College de France, Paris, exhibited by John Wesley Judd.
31. A revolving stage for the microscope, exhibited by Professor R. J. Anderson.
32. Various parasitic fungi and specimens of diseased timber showing characteristic symptoms of injury caused by them, exhibited by Harry Marshall Ward, Professor of Botany in the Forestry School, Royal Indian College, Cooper's Hill.
33. Model illustrating a cause of contortions of strata, exhibited by Charles Ricketts.
34. Amorphorphallus campanulatus, exhibited by William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew.
Ground Floor:
At 9.30 and 10.45 o'clock.
New optical apparatus for lecture demonstrations, exhibited by Eric Stuart Bruce.
At 10 o'clock.
Projections by the electric lantern of automatic electro-photographs, exposed at regular intervals of time, illustrating the consecutive phases of bipedal locomotion, as synchronously viewed from two or more points of sight, exhibited by Eadweard Muybridge .
Refreshments on the Ground Floor.
|