| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibitors at the Royal Society's annual displays at Burlington House, London, with descriptive text. Arranged by rooms. Rooms 1-5 and Ground Floor. Commencing with a note of lantern slide displays taking place at a specific time during the evening. A pencil inscription on the title page reads: 'No conversazione in June 1901 owing to the death of H.M. Queen Victoria'.
Room 1 (The Offfice):
1. The Tanganyika problem, exhibited by John Edmund Sharrock Moore.
Room 2 (Officer's Room):
2. West African parasitology, specimens of some new blood Filariae, specimens illustrating the life history of Ankylostoma duodenale of the Chimpanzee, exhibited by Henry Edward Annett and Joseph Everett Dutton of the School of Tropical Medicine, University College, Liverpool.
3. Stereoscopic transparencies of electrical discharges, stereoscopic skiagrams of bullet wounds (taken during South African War) shown in Wheatstone's stereoscope, exhibited by James Mackenzie Davidson.
4. The meteo-parachute, a new instrument for investigating the upper atmosphere, exhibited by Eric S. Bruce.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
5. Cloud photographs, exhibited by Commander David Wilson-Barker.
6. Specimens of foraminifera and ostracoda from Funafuti, Ellice Islands, exhibited by John Wesley Judd on behalf of the Coral Reef Committee of the Royal Society.
7. Reversible drawers of butterflies from the Holarctic Region arranged to show wide distribution and adaptability to extremes of climate. Also to show variation and difficulty of applying binomial system of nomenclature with special reference to Mr. Bernard's recent paper on nomenclature read before the Linnaean Society, exhibited by Henry John Elwes.
8. Fulgurites or lightning tubes from the sand hills at Kensington N.S.W., exhibited by Killingworth Hedges.
Room 4 (Council Room):
9. Luminous bacteria (from the Bacteriological Laboratory of the Jenner Institute of Preventative Medicine), exhibited by Joseph Edwin Barnard and Allan Macfadyen.
10. Arrow-heads of rock crystal from British Guiana, orchids growing wild in British Guiana, exhibited by Everard Ferdinand im Thurn.
11. Photographs of waves &c., in sand, cloud and snow, exhibited by Vaughan Cornish.
12. Photographs which exhibit some of the properties of the light emitted by Rontgen ray tubes, exhibited by James Wimshurst.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
13. Diagrams of corresponding lines in homologous spectra, exhibited by Hugh Rampage.
14. Pilot charts of the North Atlantic and Mediterranean for April and May 1901, exhibited by the Meteorological Office.
15. Callendar and Griffith's patent temperature indicator, photographs of the spectroscope made for Sir David Gill for use with the McClean Telescope, Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Limited.
16. Stereoscopic binocular range-finder, exhibited by the Carl Zeiss Optical Works.
17. Experiments on binocular alteration of vision, exhibited by Jagadish Chandra Bose.
18. Swords and knives from Sarawak, Borneo, exhibited by Robert Walter Campbell Shelford.
19. Models illustrating the structure of the gills of bivalve mollusca, examples of Mormyrid fishes from the Nile, a series of adult and young birds and eggs of the Adelia penguin (Pygopcelis adeliae), trephined skulls of natives of the Bismarck Archipelago collected by the Rev. J. A. [John Arthur] Crump and deposited in the British Museum by Mr. W. E. [William Edward] de Winton F.Z.S., claw and tooth of Neomylodon Patagonia, coloured model of the Right Whale, exhibited by Edwin Ray Lankester, the Director, British Museum (Natural History).
20. Reflecting stereoscope, trochleostatic diagam and models of pullies, exhibited by Alfred George Greenhill.
21. Tool grinding apparatus, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
22. A mechanical interrupter for an induction coil, exhibited by Dawson Turner.
23. Examples of plankton from the neighbourhood of Plymouth, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
24. Machine for measuring astronomical photographs, exhibited by the Observatory, Cambridge.
25. Standard barometer, exhibited by Hugh Longbourne Callendar.
26. Photographs of Nova Persei, exhibited by Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer.
27. Photographs of the spectrum of Nova Persei, exhibited by the Rev. Walter Sidgreaves.
28. Photographic spectra of Nova Persei, exhibited by Frank McClean.
29. Living specimens of the Heloderm (Heloderma suspectum) from Arizona the only venomous lizard known.
30. Ancient Egyptian gold, exhibited by John Hall Gladstone.
31. Casts and photographs of Egyptian jewellery of the 1st dynasty 4,700 B.C., specimens of molecular transference in ancient bronze, exhibited by William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
32. Specimens of atmospheric dust which fell at Taormina, Sicily, during the month of March giving rise to the so-called 'Blood Rain', exhibited by Arthur William Rucker and John Wesley Judd.
33. Masses of chromium, manganese, ferro-titanium and cobalt, exhibited by Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
34. Two bandoliers from Semliki Forest, Congo Free State, made from the skin of a new mammal, exhibited by Philip Lutley Sclater.
35. Coloured casts on objects of natural history prepared at the British Museum (Natural History), enlarged model of the shell of Ascoceras a cephalopod occurring in the Silurian rocks of England Sweden and North America, table of British strata coloured, exhibited by Henry Woodward.
36. 'Growth' in inorganic matter, symmetrical concretions, exhibited by Mr. G. Abbott.
37. Leg bones and egg of Aepyornis titan, Madagascar, exhibited by Walter Rothschild.
Ground Floor (Committee Room):
38. The musical arc, exhibited by William Du Bois Duddell.
Secretaries' Room:
39. The telegraphone, exhibited by the Telegraphone Syndicate.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations, by means of the electric lantern, will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
40. Life-zones in the white chalk and their significance in connection with the evolution of species, exhibited by Arthur Rowe.
At 10.15 o'clock.
41. Some engineering problems and their solution, exhibited by Francis Fox.
At 11.0 o'clcok.
42. Kinematic diagrams illustrating magnetic fields, exhibited by Silvanus Phillips Thompson.
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