| Description | List of exhibits at the Royal Society's conversazione at Burlington House, arranged by room. Headed 'Burlington House. April 28th 1866'. Inscribed in pencil and in red crayon verso, '1866 April'. Items and exhibitors were as follows:
Linnaean Library.
Original drawings by Michael Angelo, Julio Romano, and Pernio del Varga, from the Royal Collection, exhibited by permission of H.M. The Queen.
Twelve-inch vertical circle by Messrs. Repsold of Hamburg, for the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India - and seven-inch theodolite by Messrs. Cooke, for the Government of India. Exhibited by Lieut.-Col. A. [Alexander] Strange, by permission of the Secretary of State for India.
Various signal apparatus employed in promoting the safety of railway traffic. Manufactured by Messrs. Silver and Company. Exhibited by Mr. W. H. [William Henry] Preece.
Models of pile-driving machine and double pump, worked by electro-magnetism. Double syren, by Helmholtz. Exhibited by Prof. [John] Tyndall.
Standard electrodynamometer, for the measurement of voltaic currents in absolute measure. Exhibited by Mr. F. [Fleeming] Jenkin.
Illustrations of the development and natural history of the Salmon, as applied to practical culture. Mr. F. [Frank] Buckland.
Original drawings of wild flowers of the mountains of Southern and Western India. Drawn and exhibited by Mrs. (General) Read Brown.
Waiting his innings: portrait statue of Basil E. Lawrence. Exhibited by J. [Joseph] Durham.
Linnaean Meeting Room.
Bridge's diffraction apparatus, with experiments. Exhibited by Messrs. Elliott Brothers.
Pulvermacher's new medical galvanic battery, in operation; and Galvano-piline chain-bands (patent). Exhibited by Mr. [Isaac] Pulvermacher.
Electro-conducting garments, and Book-electro-magnetic battery. Exhibited by Mr. Harry Lobb.
New condenser for the microscope, for illuminating opaque objects under the highest powers. Micro-spectroscopes with novel spectra, the specimens prepared by H. C. {Henry Clifton] Sorby Esq. Microscopes with strychnine, brucia, corrosive sublimate exhibited as polariscopic objects. Exhibited by Mr. J. [John] Browning.
Appold's automatic temperature regulator for buildings. Appold's automatic hygrometer for regulating the dew-point in buildings. Exhibited for Mrs. Appold by J. Browning.
Microscopic specimens of zoophytes, foraminifera, polycistina, &c. Exhibited by Dr. H. G. Wright.
Eggs of lepidoptera (for examination with the microscope). Exhibited by Dr. Millar.
Collins's dissecting microscope and achromatic condenser. Exhibited by the manufacturer.
Gravity compression pendulum for astronomical clocks. designed and exhibited by Mr. J. F. [James Ferguson] Cole.
Wheatstone's magnetic exploder. Exhibited by Mr. [Charles] Wheatstone.
Magnetometer, as constructed for Kew Observatory. Exhibited by Messrs. Elliott Brothers.
Model to show a possible geological cause of changes in the position of the Earth's axis. Exhibited by Mr. J. [John] Evans.
Electrical machine with wood plates. Exhibited by F. Jerningham, Esq.
Charts and diagrams showing the proposed route of the North Atlantic telegraph. Exhibited by Mr. N. J. [Nathaniel John] Holmes.
Entrance Saloon.
Paintings: Carpathian landscape; and views in the English Lake Country, by Remi van Haanen. Exhibited by the artist.
Portrait of the King of Italy and other paintings, by Signor F. [Felice] Barucco. Exhibited by the artist.
Photographs of an eclipse of the Moon. Negative of the Sun on a large scale. Photograph of the solar spectrum in the natural colours, taken by M. [Alexandre-Edmond] Becquerel. Exhibited by Mr. Warren De la Rue.
Specimens of statuary marble, and silver and copper ore from Newfoundland. Exhibited by Mr. F. N. [Frederick Newton] Gisborne.
Choice specimens of agates. Exhibited by Prof. [James] Tennant.
Portraits from nature, in vitrified enamel (Joubert's patent). Exhibited by Mr. F. [Ferdinand] Joubert.
Roman mosaics, by Giacomo Raffaelle. Exhibited by Mr. G. B. Rennie.
Wedgwood medallions, exhibited by Dr. [Francis] Sibson.
All the trees, plants and flowers throughout the apartments, are lent by the Royal Botanic Society.
Apparatus for showing the Dialytic separation of oxygen from the atmosphere. Exhibited by the Master of the Mint [Thomas Graham].
Grossman's experiment, showing tetanus of a frog's muscle by induced currents from the musical vibrations of a magnetic bar; and apparatus, belonging to the Physiological Laboratory of the University of Berlin, devised by Dr. Du Bois Reymond and used by him in his lectures on muscular motion. Exhibited by Dr. [Emil Heinrich] Du Bois Reymond.
African landscapes: portraits of natives of Central Africa. By Mr. V. [Valentine] Robins. Exhibited by the Royal Geographical Society.
Photographs of sacred sites and temples in the Mysore. Exhibited by Mr. Higgins.
Improved microscopes. Exhibited by Messrs. Powell and Lealand.
Drawing of group of sun-spots, showing the lenticular forms in the photosphere. Exhibited by Mr. James Nasmyth.
Council Room.
Gisborne's pneumatic signals, with applications to naval and domestic uses. Gisborne's single circuit electric signals, for use in mines. Trial plates showing the anti-fouling paint for ship's bottoms. Anti-corrosive silica paint. Clark's patent ferrule for the instantaneous repairing of boiler tubes. Exhibited by Mr. F. N. [Fredericl Newton] Gisborne.
Photographic copies of the Turner pictures in the National Gallery - or pictures in the galleries of Madrid and Dresden. Photographs of views in Switzerland and Savoy - of pictures and souvenirs of the Caucasus, painted for the Emperor of Russia. Exhibited by Messrs. Marion, Son & Company.
Portrait specimens of untouched photographs. Exhibited by Messrs. Wilson and Beadell.
Photographic portraits of scientific and literary men, and life-size portrait of the late Sir William Hooker. Exhibited by Messrs. Maull & Company.
Illustrations of the fluorescence of animal substances: shown by the electric light. Exhibited by Dr. H. [Henry] Bence Jones.
Drawings of Entozoa. Exhibited by Dr. [Thomas] Spencer Cobbold.
The Soho Sun-Pictures: taken by Boulton and Watt about 1780. Exhibited by Mr. Bennet Woodcroft.
Lower Library and Meeting Room.
Maps and sections illustrative of Mr. J. F. Bateman's project for supplying London with water from the sources of the Severn. Photographs, maps, and sections of various waterworks. An explanation of this subject will be given in the Meeting Room by Mr. [John Frederick] Bateman at 10.15.
The Ordnance Survey plans of Jerusalem and route of the levelling from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea. Exhibited by Col. Sir H. [Henry] James R.E.
Specimen of improved submarine telegraph cable, with experimental tests of the insulation. Exhibited by Mr. J. [John] Macintosh.
Collection of minerals from California and Nevada; and photographs of Californian scenery. Exhibited by Mr. J. A. Philips
Original model, made by Heathcote, of his bobbin-net machine. Exhibited by Mr. Bennet Woodcroft.
Model of the 3,500 ton sea-going cupola ship (on Capt. Coles's principle) proposed by J. D'A. Samuda, M.P., for the service of the Royal Navy. Exhibited by Mr. [Joseph d'Aguilar] Samuda. |