| 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 1-4 and Ground Floor. Commencing with a note of lantern slide displays taking place at a specific time during the evening. The catalogue has a short appendix, with description of the Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers.
Room 1 (The Officers' Room):
1. The habits of some fishes from the inshore waters, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
2. Stereoscopic and other natural-colour photographic transparencies illustrating the fauna of the Polynesian coral reefs, exhibited by William Saville-West.
3. Floral, geometric and other forms produced by the human voice in singing, exhibited by Mrs. Megan [Margaret] Watts-Hughes and Richard Kerr.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
4. Photographs illustrative of the vegetation of the Seychelles Islands, exhibited by John Stanley Gardiner and Mr. H. P. Thomasset.
5. Model of a seismograph, exhibited by John Milne.
6. Seismograph records of recent earthquakes, exhibited by the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.
Room 3 (Council Room):
7. New charcoal calorimeter and thermoscope, charcoal vacua, spectrum tubes, some scientific uses of liquid air, exhibited by Sir James Dewar.
8. Photographic prints in natural colours (Smith-Merckens process), exhibited by Oliver S. Dawson.
9. Microphotographs of brass, etc., exhibited by the Ordnance College, Woolwich.
10. A triple alloy of tin-antimony-arsenic polished and etched showing bright curved crystals embedded in a soft matrix or eutectic, exhibited by John Edward Stead.
11. Photographs of electrical discharges at atmospheric pressure and in vacuo, exhibited by Kenneth J. Tarrant.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
12. Specimens of colour photographs and photomicrographs, exhibited by Edwin Edser and Edgar Senior.
13. Evidence to show that ionic separation occurs when solutions of acids or of salts are allowed to diffuse into sensitised jellies or solutions, exhibited by Reginald Graham Durrant.
14. Photomicrographic apparatus for ultra-violet light (designed by Dr. A. Kohler), exhibited by Messrs. Carl Zeiss, Jena.
15. Map of the World showing thirty-six countries of regions contributing to the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, index-cards for the catalogue, second annual issue and specimen bibliographies prepared from the catalogue, exhibited by Henry Forster Morley on behalf of the International Catalogue Committee.
16. Hykos fortress model and pottery 2,000 B.C., Egypt, model of the Temple and City of Onias, Egypt, photographs, enlarged, from Sinai, exhibited by William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
17. Course of operations in the preparation of the Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers (fully described in an appendix), exhibited by Herbert McLeod on behalf of the Committee of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers.
18. Stability test for cordite, exhibited by Oswald Silberrad and Dr. R. C. Farmer.
19. A series of Picrates, exhibited by Oswald Silberrrad and Henry Ablett Phillips.
20. Investigation into the stresses in masonry dams, solution to the problem of the random walk, exhibited by Karl Pearson, Mr. A. F. C. Pollard and Mr. J. Blakeman.
21. Ultimate microscope resolving power with light of different wave lengths, exhibited by Messrs. R. & J. Beck.
22. Stereoscopic photographs taken by Sir W. Crookes on the occasion of the visit of the British Association to South Africa in the autumn of 1905, occurrence of the diamond, models of crystals of diamond, cut and polished section of a piece of silicified wood found about twelve years ago in the untouched 'blue ground' of the Du Toits Pan Diamond Mine, Kimberley, polished section of the Canyon Diablo meteorite in which diamonds have been found, exhibited by Sir William Crookes.
23. Vibration experiments, exhibited by Joseph Goold.
24. Recent photographs of some British stone circles, exhibited by the Solar Physics Observatory, South Kensington.
25. Sturt's Desert Pea (Clianthus dampieri), exhibited by Sir David Prain, the Director Royal Gardens. Kew.
26. Method of colonisation of free surfaces by Subaerial algae (Cyanophyceae) in the Tropics, exhibited by Felix Eugen Fritsch.
27. Fossil plants from the coal measures, exhibited by Edward Alexander Newell Arber, Miss Margaret Jane Benson, Miss Winifred Elsie Brenchley, Francis Wall Oliver, Dukinfield Henry Scott, and Frederick Ernest Weiss.
28. Positives on glass and photographic prints of the total solar eclipse of 30 August 1905 from negatives taken at Sfax, Tunisia, exhibited bv Sir William Henry Mahoney Christie, the Astronomer Royal.
29. Photographs of the solar corona eclipse of 30 August 1905, exhibited by Rev. Aloysius Laurence Cortie.
30. Photographs of eclipse instruments and results total solar eclipse 30 August 1905, exhibited by the Solar Physics Observatory, South Kensington.
31. Series of stereoscopic photographs of the membranous labyrinth illustrating the comparative anatomy of the organ, exhibited by Albert Alexander Gray.
32. Stereoscopic views of the Victoria Falls and the Batoka Gorge of the Zambesi and of the Batoka country east of the Falls, photographed by the late Colonel Francis William Rhodes, exhibited by Miss Rhodes.
33. Micro-daguerreotypes of blood, milk and crystals, made by Leon Foucault in 1844, exhibited by the Royal Microscopical Society.
34. Hind limbs of the gigantic extinct marsupial Diprotodon australis from Lake Callabonna, South Australia, exhibited by Arthur Smith Woodward.
35. Precious stones and simple methods for their identification, exhibited by George Frederick Herbert Smith.
36. Specimens illustrating the indifference of oxygen towards iron in the presence of water and the effect of the admission of carbonic acid, exhibited by Dr. G. T. Moody.
37. Copper mirrors obtained by the deposition of metallic copper upon glass, exhibited by Frederick Daniel Chattaway.
38. Six photographs of the Milky Way taken in 1905 by Professor Edward Emerson Barnard at Mount Wilson, California.
39. Portion of a meteorite containing diamonds found near Canyon Diablo, Arizona, and specimens of diamonds extracted from it, alloys of copper and calcium, exhibited by William Gowland.
Ground Floor (Committee Room):
40. Visibly luminous electrical discharges in vacuo obtained with comparatively low electrical pressures, exhibited by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton.
41. Stereoscopic star charts and spectroscopic key maps, exhibited by Thomas Edward Heath.
Meeting Room;
The following demonstrations by means of the electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
42. The recent eruption of Vesuvius, exhibited by Tempest Anderson.
At 10.15 o'clock.
43. Experiments in illustration of some properties of the diamond, exhibited by Sir William Crookes.
At 11.15 o'clock.
44. Natural colour photographs illustrating Nature's protection of insect life, exhibited by Frederick Enock.
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