| 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: Model of a pile-driving machine constructed by James Ferguson and John Heathcote's lace-making machine, exhibited by Bennet Woodcroft; illustrations of George Gore's discovery of anomalies in red-hot iron wire, Barrett's discovery of the afterglow of heated wire, and apparatus by Yeates of Dublin for showing Lissajous's figures, exhibited by William Fletcher Barrett.
Room 2: electromotograph, exhibited by Mr. Culley, General Post Office; radiometer, exhibited by William Crookes.
Room 3 (Entrance Saloon): appliances for the growth and microscopic examination of marine and freshwater life in tanks, exhibited by James Smith; photographs, exhibited by Colonel Stuart Wortley; photographs of remarkable natural phenomena in America [no exhibitor listed].
Room 4: working models a new system of automatic railway signalling by Sir David Salomons, Gassiot cascade with flask of Aesculine, and 21-inch spark induction coil with clockwork rheotome, exhibited by Mr. Apps; polariscopes, with dispersive prisms, revolving double-image analyser, and arranged for projection, constructed for William Spottiswoode, exhibited by Messrs. Tisley and Spiller.
Room 5 (Principal Library): large spectroscope, belonging to Mr. Frank McClean, direct vision prism made for William Spottiswoode, Knobel's astrometer, Captain Abney's instrument for measuring the intensity of photographic negatives, exhibited by John Browning; optical bench for showing interference and diffraction, exhibited by Messrs. Elliott Brothers; microscope-spectrum apparatus, with specimens, exhibited by Henry Clifton Sorby; series of beads showing applications of spectrum-analysis to blowpipe chemistry, exhibited by Mr. C. Horner; instruments made for the Polar Expedition, unifilar magnetometer by Elliott Brothers, Barrow's dip-circle and Fox's circle, made by Mr. John Dover of Charlton, azimuth and travelling compasses by Messrs. Owen and Barrow, exhibited by permission of the Lords of the Admiralty; memorial presented by the Royal Society to King George III, requesting support for a Transit of Venus Expedition, 1769, presented by Dr. Diamond, and exhibited by the Royal Society; logbooks,, James Cook's voyage in H.M.S. 'Adventure' [eg 'Endeavour'] 1768-1771, voyage of Captain Skeffington Lutwidge in H.M.S. 'Carcass' in 1773, voyage of Lieutenant John Franklin in H.M. Brig 'Trent' in 1818, exhibited by permission of the Lords of the Admiralty; by permission of the Lords of the Admiralty; spectroscopes and Dr. Lombard's thermo-electric apparatus, exhibited by Mr. Ladd; model of the steamship 'Faraday' designed for telegraph construction, basalt from 2,400 fathoms' depth in the North Atlantic, two stones from near the Banks of Newfoundland, exhibited by Messrs. Siemens Brothers; eyepiece and shutter for telescopes, exhibited by Captain Davis; watercolours of the Alps and Woburn, exhibited by George Barnard; specimens of the Ashantee Medal with Edward Poynter's designs, exhibited by Charles William Fremantle, Royal Mint.
Meeting Room (Ground Floor): chloride of zinc battery of 1,000 cells in connection with Varley's condenser made by Tilsey and Spiller, exhibited by Warren De La Rue and Dr Hugo Muller.
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