| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibitors at the Royal Society's twice-yearly 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.
Room 2: microscopes, circulation in the Vallisnera with 1/16th immersion lens and patent binocular, volvex globator, exhibited by Messrs. Powell and Lealand; watercolour drawings, views in India by Major Nickle, exhibited by J. Allan Brown.
Room 3: the Reception Room.
Room 4: electromagnets and commutator or chronofer originally used in the South-Eastern Railway, London Bridge, for distributing time signals from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, exhibited by Charles Vincent Walker; microsphaira an instrument for solving spherical triangles by mechanical means, exhibited by Francis Cranmer Penrose; the type-writer, a machine to supercede the pen in letter-writing, or manuscript work of any kind, exhibited by the Remington Sewing-Machine Company.
Room 5 (Principle Library): polariscopic objects shown with two large Nicol's prisms, spectra of gases shown with direct-vision prism, Browning's new portable microscope with polaristic objects and arranged diatoms, micro-spectroscopes showing the spectra of fluorescent objects, and radiometers, exhibited by James Browning; stone implements from the palaeolithic period from England, France, India and Africa, including specimens other than flint, Roman fibulae or brooches, Saxon and other ancient jewellery and ornaments, medieval and posy rings, exhibited by John Evans; articles from the Kew Museum, including items made from the leaves of the double coconut (Lodoicea seychellarum), by French Ladies in the Seychelles, workboxes carved from Calamander wood (Dios pyros quaesita) in Ceylon, Lace bark (Lagetta lintertaria) articles from Jamaica, blotting book of Sandalwood (Santalum album) from India, Copal resin (Trachylobium hornemannianum) recent and fossil, with insects enclosed, from Zanzibar, leaves of Peepul (Ficus religiose) for painting upon, and items made from the Paper mulberry-tree (Broussonetia papyrifera), from the Pacific and (Broussonetia kaempferi) from Japan, exhibited by Joseph Dalton Hooker; cable-buffer controller for ship's cables, exhibited by Captain R. Saunders, Cable Controller Company; landscape photographs, exhibited by Mr Vernon Heath; vases and specimens of 'Doulton Ware', a new kind of art-potter manufactured at Lambeth Potter Works, exhibited by Henry Doulton; relics and memorials of John Hunter, photographs of his residence at Earl's Court House, a notebook of his lectures and other illustration, exhibited by Benjamin Ward Richardson.
Ground Floor: refreshments, wine and ices. |