| 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.
Room 1 (Officers' Room):
1. Working models illustrating the action of the Schlick gyroscope in steadying ships at sea, exhibited by Otto Schlick and Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Limited.
2. Model of the neighbourhood of the Winter quarters of the National Antarctic ship ''Discovery' 1902-1904, exhibited by the Director of the Meteorological Office.
3. Records of recent large earthquakes, exhibited by John Milne.
4. Cable broken by the Jamaica earthquake of 14 January 1907, exhibited by Rev. Robert Ashington Bullen.
5. British Association album, meeting in South Africa, 1905, exhibited by John Perry.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
6. Photographs taken in the Rocky Mountains of Canada and in the Alps, exhibited by Edward Whymper.
Room 3 (Council Room):
7. Marine algae and their reproduction, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
8. Fixation of nitrogen by leguminous and other plants, exhibited by William B. Bottomley.
9. Pottery soul-houses, 3,000 B.C., exhibited by William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
10. History pictures of Egypt, exhibited by Sir Benjamin Stone.
11. Photographs illustrative of the volcanoes of Central America and of a revisit to the Soufriere of St. Vincent.
12. The Linnaeus Bicentenary - original certificate of candidature of Linnaeus dated 1753 for election into the Royal Society.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
13. Stellar spectrograms, spectroheliograms, exhibited by the Solar Physics Observatory, South Kensington.
14. Vacuum tube phenomena, exhibited by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton.
15. A fibre electroscope, an electroscope charger, electrically conductive glass, exhibited by Charles Edmund Stanley Phillips.
16. Stereoscopic x-ray photographs in a revolving lenticular stereoscope, exhibited by James Mackenzie Davidson.
17. A new visual method of measuring the speeds of photographic shutters, exhibited by Abram Kershaw.
18. Cloud studies, by Dr. Lockyer.
19. Pilkington's Lancastrian lustre pottery, exhibited by William Burton.
20. Apparatus of malleable iridium and rhodium, apparatus of pure transparent fused silica, exhibited by Messrs. Johnson, Matthey and Company.
21. Persistent electrical oscillations, exhibited by William Du Bois Duddell.
22. Examples of fauna of the Fayum Lake, Birket-Qurun, investigated at the request of the Egyptian Survey Department, exhibited by William Alfred Cunnington and Charles L. Boulenger.
23. The female forms of the African Papilo Dardanus, the most remarkable example of mimicry hitherto discovered, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
24. Seasonal dimorphism in butterflies, exhibited by Frederick Augustus Dixey.
25. Pupa of Binsitta barrow Bingham, with photograph of moth and pupa and a coloured drawing of the head of a tree-snake (Lycodon aulicus Linn.), exhibited by Colonel Charles Thomas Bingham.
26. Skeleton of a South African Saurischian (Erythrosuchus africanus), exhibited by Harry Govier Seeley.
27. Specimens illustrating alternation if generation, various invertebrates and birds showing colours due to structure, mostly thin films and not pigments, consequently the colour is lost on crushing, exhibited by Charles Stewart.
28. Examples of the skins of domestic cats, exhibited by Reginald Innes Pocock.
29. Photographs of microscopic diamonds obtained from pure iron heated in a carbon crucible in an electric furnace and rapidly cooled, scale 150 diameters, exhibited by Charles Algernon Parsons.
30. Precious stones, cut and uncut, exhibited by Herbert Smith.
31. A cordoned bucket or cist of bronze 'Halstatt' type, early Iron Age of Europe. Late Bronze Age of Britain, circa 700 B.C., found at Weybridge, Surrey, April 1907 at a depth of 10 feet in sinking a shaft for the pier of a bridge close to the river at the new motor track [the 'Brooklands Bucket'], exhibited by Mr. W, Dale.
32. A collection of species of the genus Corallium and a specimen of Corallium maderense polished and mounted in silver, exhibited by Sydney John Hickson.
33. Birds represented in the British Isles by peculiar forms and their Continental allies, exhibited by Ernst Hartert.
Ground Floor (Meeting Room):
The following demonstrations will take place at the time specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
34. Growing crystals, exhibited by Henry Alexander Miers.
At 10.15 o'clock.
35. Houses in ancient Egypt, exhibited by William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
At 11.0 o'clock.
36. Working model of the Brennan mono-railway, exhibited by Louis Brennan.
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