| 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 a specific time during the evening.
Room 1 (Officers' Room):
1. Practical demonstration of Rontgen's new photography, with experiments and exhibition of results, exhibited by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton.
Room 2 (The Office):
2. A part of the collections made by Dr. C. I. [Charles Immanuel] Forsyth Major in Madagascar, 1894-95, exhibited by Henry Woodward.
3. Geological map of part of British East Africa, with sketches, sections and specimens, specimens of Hemiptera (Flata nigricinta Walk.) the colonies of which resemble inflorescences, exhibited by John Walter Gregory.
4. Self-testing balance box and bridge, exhibited by Ernest Howard Griffiths.
5. Resistance box, standard coils and wire bridge, exhibited by Frederick William Burstall.
6. Bare wire resistance thermometers for use in vessels under high pressure, exhibited by Frederick William Burstall and Henry Robert John Burstall.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
7. Current charts of the Indian Ocean for the months of January, April, July, and October, wind charts of the South Indian Ocean between the Cape of Good Hope and New Zealand for the months of January, April, July, and October, sea surface temperature charts of the South Indian Ocean between the Cape of Good Hope and New Zealand, for each month of the year, exhibited by the Meteorological Council.
8. Specimens illustrating the amount and mode of shrinkage of bog oak, mulberry showing symmetry in the twigs and asymmetry in the leaves, travertine lining a wooden pipe and reproducing all the details of the surface on which it was thrown down, exhibited by Thomas McKenny Hughes.
Room 4 (Council Room):
9. Instantaneous photographs of splashes, exhibited by Arthur Mason Worthington and Mr. R. S. Cole.
10. New portable binocular field-glasses and stereo-telescopes, exhibited on behalf of Carl Zeiss.
11. A series of 'skiagrams' illustrating the applications of the 'new photography' to medical and surgical diagnosis, exhibited by Sydney Rowland.
12. Steel tuning-bars and synchronising sound-generators, exhibited by Joseph Goold.
13. Demonstration of the use of phosphorescent materials in rendering X-rays visible, exhibited by Herbert Jackson.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
14. Photographs of the spectra of twenty-three characteristic helium stars, photographs of the spectra of six stars of the 3rd magnitude showing the transitions from type to type, exhibited by Frank McClean.
15. Rapid prototype printing machines, a new type-setting machine dispensing with movable types, exhibited by William Friese Greene.
16. Monochromatic images, exhibited by William De Wiveleslie Abney.
17. The stereoscopic photo-chromoscope, exhibited by Frederic Eugene Ives.
18. Gas-testing in electric culverts by portable apparatus, exhibited by Frank Clowes.
19. Photographs of 'cup and ring' markings naturally formed upon stucco, exhibited by Charles Carus-Wilson.
20. Specimens of ancient 'astrolabes' and other instruments, exhibited by Lewis Evans.
21. The composite archer's bow, its structure and affinities, exhibited by Henry Balfour.
22. New apparatus for measuring the magnetic permeability of iron or steel, exhibited by James Alfred Ewing.
23. Modifications of an experiment of M. Charles Margot by Professor Roberts-Austen, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
24. Specimens of boring marine animals, some rare or interesting marine organisms recently found at Plymouth, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
25. Certain adaptions subservient to respiration in sand-burrowing Annnelids and Crustacea, exhibited by Walter Garstang.
26. Aerators' for aerating water and other liquids, exhibited by Messrs. Read, Campbell & Company.
27. A series of photographed spectra illustrating an investigation of the Bessemer flame as seen at the North Eastern Steel Co.'s Works at Middlesbrough-on-Tees in which the presence of the rare element Gallium was recognised by a single line in its spectrum and separated from both the metal and the ore of the district, exhibited by Walter Noel Hartley.
28. Flint glass prism of 9 inches aperture and 45 degree refracting angle, photograph showing positions of coronal spectrum rings in the total eclipse of the Sun 16 April 1893, photographic spectra of alpha Cygni, gamma Cygni and Arcturus, photographs showing the spectra of helium and Gas X in relation to the spectra of Orion stars, photographic map of the spectra of metals of the iron group, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
29. Geometric wall brackets, geometric steady blocks, exhibited by Frederick Jervis Smith and Charles Vernon Boys.
30. Calcul par les abaques, exhibited by Maurice d'Ocagne, Professor at l'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees.
31. Models to show the nature of repetition in space which characterizes a homogenous structure having cubic symmetry, exhibited by William Barlow.
32. Model to illustrate the method of reconstruction from serial microscopical sections by the use of glass plates, exhibited by Andrew Francis Dixon.
33. Nuclear division in the spores of Fegatella conica, exhibited by John Bretland Farmer.
34. Cast of enlarged model (eight times natural size) of the type specimen of Amphitherium prevostii (lower jaw, Stonesfield slate), exhibited by Edwin Ray Lankester.
35. Selection of dried plants collected in Tibet by St. George R. Littledale, Esq., exhibited by William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Director, Royal Gardens, Kew.
36. Wax model of single electrical nerve cell from spinal cord of Malapterurus electricus (River Senegal) and microscopic serial sections, exhibited by Gustave Mann.
37. Gold nuggets showing internal crystalline structure, exhibited by Archibald Liversidge.
38. Palaeolithic implements from Somaliland, together with European, Asiatic and African specimens for comparison, exhibited by Mr. H. W. Seton Karr and Sir John Evans.
Ground Floor (Secretaries' Room):
39. Bifilar pendulum in action, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company.
40. Results of experiments on steel gas cylinders, exhibited by the Gas Cylinder Committee, lately nominated at the request of the Home Office.
Meeting Room:
The following exhibits with demonstrations by means of electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 9.30 o'clock.
41. Colour photographs by the interferential method, exhibited by Professor [Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel] Lippmann, through Professor Raphael Meldola.
At 11.0 o'clock.
42. Experiments with liquid air, exhibited by James Dewar.
Refreshments on the Ground Floor. |