| Description | List of exhibits at the Royal Society's conversazione at Burlington House, arranged by room. Headed 'Burlington House. March 7th 1868'. Items and exhibitors were as follows:
Linnaean Library.
Original drawings by Fra. Bartolomeo and by scholars of Raphael, from the Royal Collection, exhibited by permission of H.M. The Queen.
Silvered glass speculum 121/4 in. diameter, 6 feet 3 in. focus, mounted on an iron plane. Two views of Jupiter as seen with this speculum. Meteor-spectroscope contrived by Mr. [William] Huggins. Apparatus for reducing the angular velocity of meteors to facilitate observations of the spectra. Spectrum of the red wing-feathers of the Toucan: specimen by Prof. Church. New form of reflecting goniometer. Improved break for large induction-coils. Improved magneto-electric machine in which the current flows continuously in one direction: for medical use. Some of these instruments will be shown in operation. Exhibited by Mr. J. [John] Browning.
Specimens showing the process of refining gold and silver. Series of salts of metals. Series of pure metals demonstrating their specific gravity. Exhibited by Johnson, Matthey & Company.
Passenger-Guard-Driver communication in use on the South-Eastern Railway. Exhibited by C. V. Walker.
Railway signals to protect street crossings. Design for a cab-lamp showing whether the cab is engaged or on call. Exhibited by Mr. J. P. [John Peake] Knight.
Engraved portraits of celebrated women, with autograph and holograph letters. Exhibited by Mr. G. Manners.
Sculpture - portrait busts, boy and girl, by Edw. Davis. Exhibited by the sculptor.
Linnaean Meeting Room.
A zenith telescope: by Messrs. Troughton and Simms. Exhibited by the makers.
New form of dynamomagnetic machine. Large block of Iceland spar - spheres and prisms of spar. Exhibited by Mr. [William] Ladd.
Patent gas economiser: a self-regulating valve which doubles the light with half the usual quantity of gas. Exhibited by Mr. F. N. [Frederic Newton] Gisborne.
Scholl's patent platinum gaslight perfector. Exhibited by the inventor [John Scholl].
Electro-chemical dynamometer - automatic current breaker - single liquid constant battery, in operation. Exhibited by Mr. [Isaac Lewis] Pulvermacher.
Latimer Clark's potentiometer - for subdividing the tension of a single cell into 10,000 equal parts.
Sir William Thomson's rotary induction machine for statical electricity. Exhibited by Messrs. Elliott Brothers.
Instrument for measuring capillarity. Exhibited by Mr. J. [James] Clerk Maxwell.
Photographs of Palestine, taken by the operators under the Palestine Exploration Fund. Lent by the Royal Geographical Society.
Two models of Jerusalem (scale 1/10,000) one geologically coloured; the other showing the pools, conduits, and admirable arrangements for supplying the City and Temple with water: and specimens of the chalk and nummulitic limestone on which Jerusalem is built. Exhibited by Col. Sir H. [Henry] James, R.E.
Entrance Saloon.
Sculpture - marble statue of "Elaine" by T. [Thomas] Woolner. Landscape by [Thomas] Gainsborough. Exhibited by Mr. Woolner.
Smokeless fuel for steam-boilers. Specimen of copper ore from Tiltcove Mine, Newfoundland. Benson's patent breech loader. Exhibited by Mr. F. N. [Frederick Newton] Gisborne.
First printed map showing the name of America. Painting of Falls of Niagara in 1765. Exhibited by Mr. H. Stevens.
Crystals from South Africa - "Cape diamonds" - and from South Australia. Exhibited by Mr. S. W. [Stephen William] Silver.
All the trees, plants, and flowers, throughout the apartments, are lent by the Royal Botanic Society.
Extraction of occluded hydrogen from palladium. Dialytic separation of hydrogen from coal-gas. Experiments by the Master of the Mint [Thomas Graham].
Patent binocular microscopes. Exhibited by Messrs. Powell and Lealand.
Dissections of the ciliary nerves of the bird. Exhibited by Dr. R. Lee junior.
Original drawings of the "people of Paris", by Fred. Barnard. Exhibited by the artist.
Photographs of the scenery, people, and animals of India. Exhibited by Mr. W. Douglas.
Landscapes and scenes in Abyssinia, by Mr. T. [Thomas] Baines. Views in Abyssinia, taken by the Medical Officer of Capt. [William Cornwallis] Harris's Expedition, 1842. Barnatz views in Ethiopia. Lent by the Royal Geographical Society.
Council Room.
Sculpture - marble statue by J. [Joseph] Durham, "Waiting for my Bath". Exhibited by the sculptor.
Wier's patent pneumatic telegraph for ships, mines, railways, &c., as to be fitted on board H.M.S. Bellerophon; also apparatus for firing guns from aloft. Exhibited by the patentee.
Views in Russian America; coast scenery and valley of the River Yookon [Yukon]. By Mr. Frederick Whymper. Prayer-book, razor and other articles obtained by Mr. [Edward D.] Young in Africa during the search for Dr. [David] Livingstone. Lent by the Royal Geographical Society.
Stonehenge - Turusachan, and cromlechs. Lent by Col. Sir H. [Henry] James, R.E.
Sketches, from nature, of Gassendi, Plato, the Sirius Iridium, and other portions of the Moon's surface. Sketch of the Great Meteor seen at 10.45 a.m. June 20, 1866. Drawn and exhibited by Mr. James Nasmyth.
Specimens of litho-photography. Exhibited by the Lithographic Institute.
Sculpture - bust of Sir Charles Wheatstone F.R.S., by Edw. Davis. Exhibited by the sculptor.
Faraday's experiment on the magnetization of light. By Prof. [John] Tyndall.
Lower Library.
The semaphore proposed for exhibiting telegraphic intelligence of storms. Exhibited by the Committee of the Meteorological Office.
Portrait photographs, by Messrs. Wilson and Beadell. Exhibited by the artists.
Diagram view of the Arctic Land, seen by Capt. [Henry] Kellett in 1840 [?]. Views of the Antarctic region seen during the voyage of Sir J. C. [James Clark] Ross, R.N. Lent by the Royal Geographical Society.
Meeting Room.
Anemograph - thermograph - and barograph, as used at the stations for British Meteorological Observations. Exhibited by the Committee of the Meteorological Office. |