| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibitors at the Royal Society's twice-yearly displays at Burlington House, London, with occasional descriptive text. Arranged by rooms. Rooms 1-5 and Meeting Room (Ground Floor).
Room 1: ancient works of art lately found in caves in Derbyshire, exhibited by William Boyd Dawkins; specimens of wrought and cast iron subject to Professor Barff's steam anti-corrosion treatment, exhibited by Frederick Settle Barff.
Room 2: otheoscope and radiometers, exhibited by William Crookes; microscopes, simple appliance to determine the index of refraction of minerals and the peculiarities of doubly refracting crystals, exhibited by Henry Clifton Sorby; various new and improved microscope apparatus by R. & J. Beck, exhibited by Henry Clifton Sorby; Navicula rhomboides, viewed with a new 1/12th immersion lens by Robert B. Tolles of Boston USA, exhibited by John Mayall junior; specimens of vibrating bubble, exhibited by Walter Noel Hartley; two photographs of a gorilla living at the aquarium in Berlin Zoo, with a chalk drawing enlarged from a photograph of a gorilla living in an English travelling menagerie by Joseph Wolf, exhibited by Philip Lutley Sclater; plaster bust of the late Sir Charles Wheatstone, exhibited by Mr. Brooker.
Room 3: paintings of vegetation in California, Japan, Ceylon and in the Malayan Islands, exhibited by Marianne North; spicules of a new fossil sponge Acanthospongia smitthii found at Cunningham-Baidland, Ayrshire, exhibited on behalf of Professor John Young, University of Glasgow, by Dr Millar.
Room 4: improved Holtz electrical machine, Faraday's Experiment on the electrification of light, manometric apparatus showing the effects of sound on flame, and fluorescent liquids, exhibited by William Ladd; Bagot's patent block signal apparatus, large aurora tube of uranium glass and other specimens (illuminated), Gramme machine adapted as an induction coil, and a series of vacuum tubes, exhibited by Alfred Apps; large half-prism spectroscope, pocket half-prism spectroscope, miniature half-prism spectroscope, exhibited by William Henry Mahoney Christie; photographs of Mr Wills design for covering the Albert Memorial with a glass building, exhibited by John Wills.
Room 5 (Principal Library): telephone and patent thermo-electric pile, specimens of Gray's telephone, exhibited by Messrs. C. and L. Wray; cycloscope, an apparatus for determining the speed of machinery by means of a tuning fork or reed, exhibited by Lieutenant G. S. Clerk R.E., and Herbert McLeod; Lippman's electrometer arranged for investigations into plant and animal electricity, exhibited by John Scott Burdon Sanderson; new arrangement of Stephenson's microscope, new lantern microscope for projection, spectroscope for separation of D lines, selected fluorescent and dioptric liquids, exhibited by John Browning; hydroclinometer for range-finding without calculation for coastal batteries of over 100 feet height, small hydroclinometer for giving inclination of slopes, electric position and range-finder for coast batteries, filed artillery range-finder, infantry range-finder, self-adjusting optical square and electric chronograph, exhibited by Captain Henry S. S. Watkin Royal Artillery; harmonograph, producing visible waves of light and sound, exhibited by S. C. Tisley; Dewar's electrometer, exhibited by Tisley and Spiller; automatic spectroscope, heliostat, governor for a 18-inch reflector, constructed by A. Hilger, designed and exhibited by Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell; apparatus for reflection and refraction of radiant heat and light fitted to Clifton's optical bench, apparatus for producing interference of light, made by Elliott Brothers, exhibited by William Grylls Adams; electrometer and replenisher, dial resistance-coil, omnimeter, reading telescope, oil-vessel galvanometer, subdivided condenser, exhibited by Messrs. Elliott Brothers; Holmes's new flaring projectiles for producing light on dark nights at sea, exhibited by Nathaniel John Holmes; statuette of Thomas Carlyle, exhibited by Joseph Edgar Boehm; photographs of landscapes in Skye, exhibited by Vernon Heath; photographs of old masters including the Proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles by Anton von Werner, and portfolio of photographs of drawings by Peter Cornelius, exhibited by J. Gersan for the Berlin Photographic Company; drawings in watercolour, largely Alpine and Swiss scenes, exhibited by George Bernard.
Meeting Room (Ground Floor): large induction coil with secondary wire of 280 miles, constructed by Alfred Apps, exhibited by William Spottiswoode.
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