| Description | List of exhibits at the Royal Society's conversazione at Burlington House, arranged by room. Headed 'Burlington House. March 2nd 1867'. Items and exhibitors were as follows:
Linnaean Library.
Series of original drawings by Holbein, from the Royal Collection, exhibited by permission of H.M. The Queen.
A large star-spectroscope, of novel construction, made for the Earl of Rosse, to be used in the great reflector at Parsonstown. Silvered glass reflectors: one equatorially mounted on Fraunhofer's plan: one mounted so as to be used either as an Altazimuth or equatorial: one 12 ¼ inches diameter. Silvered glass plane for observing the Sun with a reflecting telescope. The micro-spectroscope with novel specimens. Prisms for microscopes, spectroscopes and telescopes. Drawings of Mars taken by J. Browning during the recent opposition. Exhibited by Mr. J. [John] Browning.
Wheatstone's telegraph thermometer and cryptographs, and automatic telegraph, showing different principles of construction. Exhibited by Professor [Charles] Wheatstone.
Apparatus for producing powerful electric currents by rotation of the keeper of an electro-magnet without the aid of permanent magnets of galvanic batteries. (The current produced by this apparatus will be used to work the following:) - apparatus for the production of flashing light on the beacons of the Commissioners of the Northern Lights; the source of light being transmitted from the land through a submarine cable. Designed and exhibited by C. W. [Charles William] Siemens.
Models of celebrated diamonds. Precious stones, showing varieties of colour, and mode of occurrence. Exhibited by Mr. J. R. [James Reynolds] Gregory.
Collection of recent and fossil otolites. Exhibited by Mr. E. T. Higgins.
Lithographs of new British Madreporia from the Lower Lias. Exhibited by Dr. P. M. [Peter Martin] Duncan.
Linnaean Meeting Room.
A five-feet transit instrument for determination of longitude: by Messrs. Cooke & Sons. A zenith sector for determination of latitude: by Messrs. Troughton and Simms. To be used in the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Exhibited by Lieut. Col. [Alexander] Strange with the sanction of the Secretary of State for India.
A portable 12-inch transit circle, arranged for use in the prime vertical. A 12-inch theodolite on Everest's principle, with improvements. Observatory clock, showing mean and sidereal time on two sets of dials. Exhibited by T. Cooke and Sons.
Magento-electric machine with inductorium. Prof. Smith's binocular eye-piece for microscopes. Exhibited by Mr. [William] Ladd.
Combined electrometer and electrodynamometer for determining the ratio of the electrostatic and electromagnetic units by means of equilibrium between the electrostatic attraction and electromagnetic repulsion. Real image stereoscope, with illustrations of geometry of three dimensions. Exhibited by J. [James] Clerk Maxwell.
Electrodynamometer made for the Committee on the Standard of Resistance. Gorham's Polytrome. Delzenne's Circle. Exhibited by Messrs. Elliott Brothers.
Thermograph of the new Kew Pattern, now employed for the observations carried on under the Meteorological Committee. Exhibited by B. [Balfour] Stewart.
Robinson's anemometer, on a new pattern, showing the velocity and direction of wind every hour. Mural standard constructed for the British Association. Exhinited by Mr. [Louis] Casella.
Drawing of the lunar crater Copernicus. Exhibited by Mr. J. [James] Nasmyth.
Statuettes: Huntsman and Hunters. Exhibited by J. E. [Joseph |Edward] Boehm, sculptor.
Entrance Saloon.
Further specimens of Eozoon Canadense with photograph, including a specimen from the limestone. Exhibited by Sir W. E. [William Edmond] Logan.
Specimens of salts of the metal Thallium. Exhibited by Messrs. Hopkin and Williams.
Fossil bones of Dinornis. Exhibited by Prof. [James] Tennant.
Illustrated books and paintings from N.E. China and Japan. Ancient skulls from Mantchouria [Manchuria]. Collected by Dr. [Jones] Lamprey, 67th Regt. Exhibited by the Royal Geographical Society.
Paintings by A. [Andrew] McCallum - Burnham Beeches, Sunset - Ilex Groves of Monte Mario, Rome. Exhibited by the artist.
Ancient British skulls and bones of Bos longifrons dug from long barrows in Wiltshire by Dr. [John] Thurnam, the exhibitor.
Mixed anaesthetic vapour apparatus. Two forms of a compound inhaler and a self-acting chloroform inhaler. Designed and exhibited by Mr. Robert Ellis.
Sample iron plate protected by Gisborne's mercurial anti-fouling composition after 12 months' submersion in the sea. Lee's patent steam fuel: peat and petroleum. Palmer's section shell for naval and military purposes. Exhibited by Mr. F. N. [Frederick Newton] Gisborne.
Section of the side of an iron ship showing Daft's new method of double lap-joint, and zinc sheathing for prevention of fouling. Exhibited by Mr. S. J. [Samuel Joseph] Mackie.
All trees, plants and flowers, throughout the apartments, are lent by the Royal Botanic Society.
Wheatstone's magnetic exploder and two other telegraphic apparatus. Exhibited by Prof. [Charles] Wheatstone.
New patent process for printing with elastic types on uneven or brittle surfaces: with specimens on porcelain, glass and wood. (Leighton's patent). Exhibited by Messrs. Leighton.
A portable easily extemporized battery, for military and submarine purposes. Exhibited by Mr. Robert Brown, Commander and Government Agent of the First Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition.
Photographs of Cambodian antiquities: ruins, sculptures, &c. Exhibited by Mr. J. [John] Thomson of Edinburgh.
Diagram drawing of Santorin [Santorini], from a sketch by Dr. [Julius] Schmidt of the Observatory, Athens. Exhibited by the Royal Geographical Society.
Sculpture - small figures in marble by J. [Joseph] Durham: Ophelia returning the gifts to Hamlet: Perdita presenting flowers to Florizel. Exhibited by the Sculptor.
Patent binocular microscopes. Exhibited by Messrs. Powell and Lealand.
Experiments showing the action of sound upon flame.
Council Room.
Original drawings by [Gustave] Dore, illustrating Tennyson's Idylls of the King: Elaine and Enid.
Paintings - London Bridge on the Night of the Illuminations. By [William] Holman Hunt. Portrait of Mrs. Woolner. By Arthur Hughes. Lent by T. [Thomas] Woolner.
Wheatstone's machine for showing the augmentation of the power of a magnet by induction currents produced thereby and reacting on the magnet itself. Invented and exhibited by Prof. [Charles] Wheatstone.
Collection of Indian implements, carvings, embroidery, canoes, and other curiosities from Rupert's Land and the N.W. coast of America. Exhibited by A. G. [Alexander Grant] Dallas, Esq., late Governor of Rupert's Land.
Portraits in enamel vitrified on gold and copper by [Felix] Joubert's process. Exhibited by the Inventor.
Bust in marble (by [Thomas] Woolner) of the Rev. Dr. [John Henry] Newman. Exhibited by the Sculptor.
Lower Library
Wilde's new electro-induction machine: in operation. (The largest and most powerful generator of dynamic electricity ever yet constructed). Exhibited by H. Wilde and Company of Manchester.
Specimens of the Atlantic cable, with the grapnel shown in action as at the bow of the Great Eastern. Exhibited by Sir Samuel Canning.
Paintings - The landing of the shore end of the Atlantic cable at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, July 27, 1866. The recovery of the lost cable of 1865 on the night of Sept. 1, 1866. The landing of the British shore end at Foilhummorum Bay, Valentia. July 8, 1866. Painted for Cyrus W. Field, Esq., by Robert Dudley. Exhibited by the Artist. |