| 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 note of lantern slide displays taking place at specific times during the evening.
Room 1 (The Office):
1. Eolithic implements from the chalk plateau of Kent, exhibited by Benjamin Harrison.
2. Series of nine photographs (with map, ground plan and section) of a supposed Roman Mithraeum of Mithraic Temple discovered on the east bank of the River Medway at Wouldham near Maidstone, exhibited by the Curator of the Maidstone Museum.
3. Magnetic tester for measuring hysteresis in iron, exhibited by James Alfred Ewing.
4. Electrograph for indelible linen marking, exhibited by Messrs. Nalder Brothers and Company.
5. Minutiae in finger prints, print of hand of a child 86 days old, exhibited by Francis Galton.
6. Model illustrating Lewis and Hunter's patent coal shipping system, as in use at the Bute Docks, Cardiff, exhibited by the Bute Docks Company.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
7. Ice on the Thames in February 1895, exhibited by George James Symons.
8. A series of diagrams calculated and prepared by Miss Alice Lee to illustrate the time-decay of the field due to a Hertzian oscillator, exhibited by University College Applied Mathematics Department.
9. Photographs of curvilinear crystals of water, specimens and photographs of curvilinear crystals of soda salts, exhibited by Mrs. Margaret Watts Hughes.
Room 3 (Council Room):
10. Japanese pictures selected to illustrate the effects of time on the pigments used by the old painters of Japan (A.D. 1322 to the early part of the 19th century), exhibited by William Gowland.
11. Australian wild flowers in watercolours, exhibited by Mrs. Marian Ellis Rowan.
12. The electrical furnace as used for the preparation of the diamond from of carbon, for the melting of chromium, titanium, platinum and other metals with high melting points, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
13. Charts showing the distribution of the nebulae and star-clusters and their relation to the Milky Way, exhibited by Sidney Walters by permission of the Royal Astronomical Society.
14. An algebraical spherical centenary, exhibited by Alfred George Greenhill and Mr. T. I. Dewar.
15. Four globes illustrating phenomena associated with the formation of clouds, exhibited by William Napier Shaw.
16. The projection of ripples, logarithmic chart of wave and ripple velocities and frequencies, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
17. Photograph of apparatus employed for collecting the gases obtained from minerals by the distillation method, photographs of the spectra of Bellatrix and of a part of the solar chromosphere showing coincidences with the lines photographed in the spectra of the gases obtained from Uranite, photographs of the spectra of the new gases, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
18. An instrument for cutting grinding and polishing accurately orientated plates and prisms of crystals of every degree of hardness, exhibited by Alfred Edwin Tutton.
19. Tropical American butterflies selected to show the existence of common colour-types among species associated with the same area, exhibited by Walter Fielding Holloway Blandford.
20. Photographs in natural colours, exhibited by John Joly.
21. Photographs and objects illustrating the recent expedition to Ruwenzori, exhibited by George Francis Scott-Elliot.
22. Specimens of native work from South Arabia, exhibited by James Theodore Bent.
23. New forms of 'Top' slides for the lantern, selenite and hot-water slide heated electrically, the behaviour of a glow lamp in the magnetic field, &c., exhibited by Sir David Salomons.
24. Experiments in connection with the transmission of infection by flies, exhibited by Mr. W. T.Burgess.
25. Bacteria of the River Thames, exhibited by Harry Marshall Ward.
26. Marine organisms preserved in formic aldehyde, a new method of fixing methylene-blue preparations, the action of light on the under sides of flat fishes, living representatives of the Plymouth fauna, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
27. Experiment showing an outward positive and an inward negative current of electricity manifested by the travel of a cotton thread in the centre of a column of water flowing outwardly in the contrary direction, forms of electric discharge in air, exhibited by William George Armstrong, Lord Armstrong.
28. Models showing the relation of volts, amperes and length of electric arc, exhibited by Alexander Pelham Trotter.
29. Drawings of the electric arc, exhibited by Mrs. Hertha Ayrton.
30. Parabolograph, exhibited by H. Thomson Lyon.
31. Silvered glass mirrors, exhibited by Andrew Ainslie Common.
32. Examples of curious joints in carpentry, exhibited by Richard Inwards.
33. Model for showing gyroscopic properties of a wheel, exhibited by Killingworth Hedges.
34. A letter and original manuscript of Emin Pasha's last ornithological journal, exhibited by William Henry Flower.
35. Living aquatic hymenopterous insect Polymena natans (Lubbock), Caraphractus cinctus (Halliday), exhibited by Mr. F. Enock.
36. Bone structure in the dentary bone of Gomphognatus a South African reptile, vertical sections through the maxillary and mandibular teeth from the same skull, exhibited by Harry Govier Seeley.
37. Sections of gold nuggets etched to show crystalline structure, exhibited by Archibald Liversidge.
38. A sacred bone-trumpet, drum, and fife, exhibited by George Harley.
39. Spectra of argon and of helion mixed with argon, exhibited by William Ramsay.
Ground Floor (Archives Room):
40. Telephonic communication with Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin, exhibited by Arnold Morley, the Postmaster-General.
Meeting Room:
The following exhibits with demonstrations by means of electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
41. Lantern slides illustrating the ethnography of New Guinea, exhibited by Alfred Cort Haddon.
At 10.45 o'clock.
42. Examples of photography in natural colours, exhibited by John Joly. |