| Description | List of exhibits at the Royal Society's conversazione at Burlington House, arranged by room. Headed 'Burlington House. March 11th 1871. Items and exhibitors were as follows:
Linnaean Library.
Engraved portraits of historical personages. Exhibited by J. [James] Anderson Rose.
Portraits in water-colour (based on photography) of the late Dr. W. A. [William Allen] Miller, Treas, R.S. Sir Frederick Pollock F.R.S., the Rev. J. B. [Joseph Bancroft] Reade F.R.S.: and of Sir William Fergusson and Sir R. I. [Roderick Impey] Murchison: with collection of album portraits. Exhibited by Mr. Fred. Beadell, 49 Wigmore Street.
Drawings by Goebl. An artist sketching among Wallachian gypsies. A wedding feast in Salzkammergut. Exhibited by J. E. [Joseph Edwin] Boehm, sculptor.
Experiments to illustrate the nature of the electric discharge in vacuo and (as supposed) the phenomenon of ball lightning. By Mr. C. F. [Cromwell Fleetwood] Varley.
Recording spectroscope: invented by Dr. [William] Huggins. Made by Mr. [William] Ladd. Apparatus showing compound vibration of cords. Constructed for, and lent by, Mr. W. [William] Spottiswoode Treas. and V.P.R.S. Table polariscope, with circular polarization. Apparatus for lighting the gas, by electricity, in the Royal Albert Hall. Exhibited by Mr. [William] Ladd.
Specimens of rare, little-known, and new minerals. Exhibited by Prof. [James] Tennant.
Specimen of 'Dobbins' or small gravel in which diamonds are found: from the Vaal Country, South Africa; with a map. Exhibited by Mr. S. W. Silver.
Linnaean Meeting Room.
Lord Lindsay's 12 ¼ inch equatorial telescope, with photographic apparatus, as used in observation of the recent eclipse: with specimens of photographs. New direct-vision spectroscope, devised for use in the Bessemer steel process. Improved micro-spectroscopes, showing the spectra of alizarine and purpurine. Exhibited by Mr. J. [John] Browning.
Experiments with liquid nitrous oxide, condensed by Mr. Orchard. By Dr. [William] Odling.
Model, in plaster, of the young hippopotamus recently deceased at the Zoological Gardens. Exhibited by Mr. F. T. [Frank Trevelyan] Buckland.
New experiments in cohesion, illustrating the physical principles concerned in the formation of rouleaux in the blood and in the passage of the corpuscles 'de toute piece' through the walls of the minute blood-vessels, without rupture of the latter, as observed by [Augustus Volney] Waller (1846) and [Julius Friedrich] Cohnheim (1867). Exhibited by Dr, Richard Norris.
Microscope sub-stage for the examination of large objects with 3-inch and 4-inch objectives. Exhibited by Mr, James Smith F.L.S.
Specimens of brittle gold and drawings illustrative of the process of toughening, and thereby reducing fit for coinage, as practised at the Royal Mint. Exhibited by Mr. W. C. [William Chandler] Roberts.
Landscapes and sketches from the South African gold fields, by Mr. [Thomas] Baines. Exhibited by Mr. E. Oliver, of the Gold-Fields' Exploration Company.
Entrance Saloon.
Two models by Prof. [Olaus] Henrici: the cubic surface whose equation is xyz=m (x+y+z - a)3; and the tubular surface which is generated when a sphere of constant radius moves so that its centre describes a parabola. Exhibited by the Mathematical Society.
Torpedo with buoys. Invented and exhibited by Commander [Frederick] Harvey, R.N.
Carbon photographs of artillery. The 35-ton gun. The new 9-pounder Woolwich field-gun. The Gatling grape-shooter. The Vavasseur gun. The Scott gun-carriage; and instantaneous photograph, showing the upheaval of water by explosion of a torpedo. Lent by F. A. [Frederick Augustus] Abel and Lieut. [William de Wiveleslie] Abney.
Sculpture: The Prince of Wales's Abyssinian servant, with poodle (bronze). Bull and herdsman (stained plaster). terra-cotta bust of M. Ricaud (French painter). Exhibited by J. E. [Joseph Edgar] Boehm, sculptor.
Medallion, in wax, of Sir Humphry Davy. By J. Tayler.
Landscape drawings of taken during an exploration of British Guiana. Exhibited by Mr. J. G. [James Gay] Sawkins, late Government Geologist.
Polarimeter, as used by the Eclipse Expedition. Range-finder: constructed by Lieut. Watkin, R.A., for observation of the Eclipse, Dec. 1870. Exhibited by Messrs. Elliott Brothers.
Council Room.
Heliotypes: photographs printed in printer's ink at a printing press. By this process the delicacy and half tones of silver or carbon photographs are preserved, and the impressions are permanent. Exhibited, in operation, by Messrs. Edwards & Kidd.
Pantagraph, invented by Mr. Francis Galton, and examples of the principle of reduction of the automatic records furnished by the self-recording meteorological instruments at the seven observatories, as carried out at the Meteorological Office, by means of the pantagraph. Exhibited by the Meteorological Committee of the Royal Society.
Two maps, printed in colours, showing the geographical distribution of heart-disease and cancer in England and Wales. Exhibited by Mr. Alfred Haviland, M.R.C.S.E. |