| 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 Ground Floor.
Room 1: refreshments, tea and coffee.
Room 2: meteorite from the Cronstadt District, Orange Free State, South Africa, minerals from Salt Lake, Utah, USA, diamonds of various colours and forms from Brazil, exhibited by James Tennant; gems of the Corundum class artificially prepared by Messrs. Feil and Fremy, diagram of photograph of the spectrum of Alpha Lyrae [Vega], exhibited by William Huggins; photographs of recent paintings and sculptures including studies of heads by Ludwig Knaus, exhibited by Mr. Gerson, Berlin Photographic Company, 5 Rathbone Place.
Room 3 (Reception Room): photographs of landscapes in Colorado USA and an enlarged photograph of the travelling party in Colorado, exhibited by Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Room 4: arrangements for dividing and regulating powerful electric currents, dynamo-electric machine and electric lamp, exhibited by Charles William Siemens; a collection of antique instruments, including an adding machine by Samuel Morland 1666, an early set of Napier's Bones, Dutch drawing instruments and specimens of Sun and nocturnal dials, gunner's levels and other instruments, exhibited by John Evans; photographs from Old Master paintings and mural decorations in the Café Baur, Berlin, by Anton von Werner, exhibited by Mr. Gerson, Berlin Photographic Company.
Room 5 (Principal Library): watercolour drawings and sketches of excavations in Mycenae, Troy and Ephesus, exhibited by William Simpson; Edison's patent phonograph with improvements, exhibited by the London Stereoscopic Company; phonograph, exhibited by Shelford Bidwell; microphones in operation [no exhibitor listed]; new form of Standard British Association Unit, rheochord and compensator, spherometer and Thomson's circular sliding coils, exhibited by Messrs. Elliott Brothers; oscillation figures shown in the kinetrope, spectroscope with Rutherford's new diffraction grating, spectrum of poisoned water from Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, new form of Stephenson's binocular microscope, exhibited by John Browning; Edmund's phonoscope, showing the effect of sonorous vibrations in a Geissler vacuum tube, exhibited by William Ladd; phoneidoscope, an instrument for observing coloured figures reflected from liquid filters under the action of sonorous vibrations and the same in connection with a telephone plate, exhibited by Tisley and Company.
Ground floor: refreshments, ices, &c.
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