| 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. Experiments on the flow of water, exhibited by Henry Selby Hele Shaw.
Room 2 (The Office):
2. Instruments for describing cycloidal curves and envelopes, exhibited by Henry Selby Hele Shaw.
3. Rontgen ray apparatus for localising purposes, stereoscopic X-ray photographs seen in a Wheatstone stereoscope, exhibited by James Mackenzie Davidson.
4. Microscopic illustrations of deterioration in steel rails, micro-crystalline structure of iron, exhibited by Thomas Andrews.
5. An electric current meter acting by electrolysis, exhibited by Charles Orme Bastian.
6. Simple forms of sphygmo-manometers, exhibited by Leonard Hill and Harold Barnard.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
7. Charts, sections and specimens illustrating some of the results of the investigations carried on in the Atoll of Funifuti (Ellice Group), South Pacific, exhibited by Admiral Sir William James Lloyd Wharton and John Wesley Judd on behalf of the Coral Reef Committee of the Royal Society.
8. Insects captured in Canada and some adjacent States during a visit in connection with the meeting of the British Association in 1897, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
9. A series of models illustrating the composition of vertebrae in the various groups of vertebrata, exhibited by Hand Friedrich Gadow and Mr. W. F. Blandford.
10. A series of large stone implements collected by Sydney Ryan Esq., from the tin-bearing gravels of the River Embabaan in Swaziland, South Africa, exhibited by Thomas Rupert Jones and Mr. J. Ballot.
11. Photographs of the Pyx Chapel, Westminster Abbey, and of the distribution of Maundy Coin, Westminster Abbey, exhibited by Sir Benjamin Stone.
Room 4 (Council Room):
12. Experiments upon the circulation of the residual gaseous matter in Crookes tubes, Rontgen ray camera showing the position dimensions and form of the source of the X rays in a Crookes tube, cathode ray lamps, exhibited by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton.
13. Improved apparatus for holding and for the excitement of Rontgen ray tubes, exhibited by James Wimshurst.
14. Specimens of copper rapidly deposited at high current densities, exhibited by Killingworth Hedges.
15. Set of fourteen original coloured drawings of the principal Cromlechs existing in the vicinity of Dublin, exhibited by Professor J. P. O'Reilly.
16. The spectrum of Mira (omicron Ceti) compared with the spectra of other stars of Secchi's 3rd type, exhibited by Walter Sidgreaves.
17. Photographs of electrical discharges, exhibited by Mr. K. J. Tarrant.
18. Smoothed curves of Sun spot frequency (Wolf) compared with corresponding curves showing the variation in diurnal range of the magnetic elements of declination and horizontal force from observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, exhibited by William Ellis.
19. Specimens of 'Naturographs' (prints produced by Dr. Selle's process of photography in natural colours), exhibited by Mr. R. B. Roxby.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
20. Phase reversal and silver zone plates made by Mr. R. W. Wood of the University of Wisconsin, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
21. Coloured photographs of Yellowstone Park, U.S.A., by Mr. F. Jay Haynes of St. Paul, Minnesota, exhibited by Dr. Armstrong.
22. An interference dilatometer of increased sensitiveness, exhibited by Alfred Edwin Tutton.
23. Apparatus exhibiting peculiarities of interference fringes when formed between silvered surfaces, exhibited by Edwin Edser.
24. A simple method of calibrating a spectrometer, exhibited by Edwin Edser and Charles Pritchard Butler.
25. Apparatus to illustrate M. Daniel Bertholet's interference method of measuring high temperatures, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
26. Experiments showing an exception to the Law of Magnus, a method of demonstrating the existence of an allotropic change in iron, exhibited by Mr. A. Stansfield.
27. Complete installation of apparatus for the micro-photography of metals, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
28. Improvements in Hertz-wave space-telegraphy, exhibited by Alexander Muirhead and Oliver Lodge.
29. Magnetic balance for permeability tests of iron, exhibited by James Alfred Ewing.
30. Specimen and photographs illustrating the crystalline structure of iron and steel, exhibited by John Edward Stead.
31. Experiments in relation to resonance, exhibited by Joseph Goold.
32. One of the earlier Parsons steam turbines of three horse power driving a dynamo, speed of working 12,000 revolutions per minute, photographs of the Turbinia, screw propeller cavitating the water the atmospheric pressure being removed from the surface by an air pump, exhibited by Charles Algernon Parsons.
33. Healthy and unhealthy green oysters showing the causes of the colouration and the connection between oysters and disease, exhibited by William Abbott Herdman and Rubert Boyce.
34. The adaptions of marine animals to their environment illustrated by living examples of the higher crustacea, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
35. Photographic and other observations made in India at the total solar eclipse of 22 January 1898, exhibited by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee.
36. Photographs taken by members of the expedition sent to India to observe the total eclipse of the Sun, exhibited by the Eclipse Committee of the British Astronomical Association.
37. Specimens of sensorial organs illustrated by the microscope, exhibited by Charles Scott Sherrington.
38. The bacteriology of calf vaccine lymph, exhibited by Richard Thorne Thorne and Dr. Copeman.
39. Series of photographs taken from transparent slides of various British marine animals mounted in Canada balsam as shown by the lantern in the Meeting Room, exhibited by Henry Clifton Sorby.
40. Case of medals bronzed by Japanese methods, exhibited by Horace Seymour, Deputy Master of the Mint.
41. Pictures taken on photographic plates by vapours from certain metals and certain organic bodies, exhibited by Dr. Russell.
42. The pseudoscope for producing stereoscopic effects by means of a single picture, exhibited by Sir David Salomons.
43. Apparatus for indentation tests of metals, exhibited by William Cawthorne Unwin.
44. Microscopic preparations illustrating the structure of the digestive gland of Mollusca and Decapod crustacea, exhibited by Charles Alexander MacMunn.
Ground Floor (Archives Room):
45. Electrical recording apparatus, exhibited by Hugh Longbourne Callendar.
46. The production of clouds by the action of ultra-violet light, exhibited by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson.
Secretaries' Room:
47. Improvements in magnetic space-telegraphy, exhibited by Oliver Lodge.
48. Rangefinders, exhibited by Archibald Barr and William Stroud.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations by means of the electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 10.0 o'clock.
49. Slides illustrating marine animals, exhibited by Henry Clifton Sorby.
At 10.45 o'clock.
50. Photographs illustrating the total solar eclipse, 1898, and the Expedition to Viziadrug, exhibited by Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer.
Refreshments on the Ground Floor. |