| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibitors a Royal Society reception, held at Burlington House, London, to celebrate the centenary of the Chemical Society and of the meeting of the Eleventh International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry. The programme commences with a plan of Burlington House and concludes with a plan of the galleries of the Royal Academy of Art. A note states that 'By the courtesy of their respective Presidents and Councils the rooms of the Royal Academy, the Chemical Society, the Geological Society and the Linnaean Society have been opened for this occasion'. The exhibition catalogue is prefaced by a historical note on Burlington House. The Royal Society's coat of arms is printed in blue on the title-page.
In the rooms of the Royal Society.
Room 1 (Reception Room):
The mace of the Royal Society presented by King Charles the Second in 1663.
The charter book of the Royal Society which contains the signatures of the Fellows of the Royal Society.
The three Royal Charters of the Royal Society granted by King Charles the Second, the first Patron.
Room 2 (Principal Library):
Exhibits have been arranged…to illustrate in part the history of chemistry in Britain from the time of the foundation of the Royal Society (1660) down to the date of the foundation of the Chemical Society (1841).
Archives, portraits engravings and works of: Robert Boyle, Thomas Willis, Joseph Black, Henry Cavendish, Joseph Priestley, Richard Kirwan, John Dalton, William Hyde Wollaston, William Henry, Humphry Davy. Some alchemical and chemical manuscripts from the archives. A selection of medals and medallions of chemists.
Room 3 (Geological Society):
Selection of scientific instruments of historical interest from the Royal Society's collections.
In the rooms of the Chemical Society:
1. Portraits in oils and photographs of Past Presidents of the Society and others associated with the Society.
2. The mace of the Chemical Society.
3. Early records of the Chemical Society, including the first minute books and the Society's Obligation Book containing the signatures of Fellows of the Society from its foundation ion 1841 up to the present day.
4. The Jubilee Album, which was presented to the Chemical Society in 1891.
5. The written addresses presented on the occasion of the celebration of the Centenary of the Chemical Society at home and overseas.
6. A selection of rare books from the Library Collection.
7. The Chemical Society's collection of medals including examples of both British and foreign medals.
In the rooms of the Linnaean Society:
1. Specimens from the Linnaeus's herbarium, a drawer from the insect collection, a drawer from the Mollusca collection. specimens from the collection of fishes.
2. Manuscripts and printed books from the Linnaean collections: De Ingressu ad Botaniam (c.1726), Iter Lapponicum (1734) Materia Medica (1749), Hortus Cliffordianus (1737), portraits of some of Linnaeus's correspondents, and some documents of general interest.
Programme of music:
9.30 p.m.
Dances from the 'Fairy Queen' Purcell, Quartet in D Major Mozart.
10.15 p.m.
Quartet in D minor ('Death and the Maiden') Schubert.
Mrs Winton 1st violin, Mr. John Beavan 2nd violin, Dr. Bernard Robinson viola, Professor Frank Watson cello.
Royal Academy of Arts
The Summer Exhibition, 1947. |