| 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.
Room 1 (The Office):
1. Photographs of clouds, exhibited by David Wilson-Barker.
2. Twin-elliptic figures showing change of phase in one or both ellipses, exhibited by Joseph Goold.
3. Series of geological and other drawings and plans, exhibited by J. P. O'Reilly.
Room 2 (Officers' Room):
4. Optical testing bench, exhibited by Messrs R. & J. Beck.
5. A radial area-scale, exhibited by R. W. K. Edwards.
6. The Simplon Tunnel, the Victoria Falls of the River Zambesi, exhibited by Francis Fox.
7. Sensitive barograph for the study of minor variations of atmospheric pressure, exhibited by William Napier Shaw.
8. Examples of micro-photography, exhibited by Arthur E. Smith and Richard Kerr.
9. Models and photographs of large hailstones, exhibited by the Royal Meteorological Society.
10. Traces obtained from self-recording instruments sent up by means of kites, self-recording instruments from which the traces were obtained, exhibited by William Henry Dines.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
11. A series of hybrid wheats illustrating Mendel's Laws, exhibited by Rowland Harry Biffen.
12. Wax model of the marmoset's brain, sections from which the wax model was constructed, exhibited by Gustav Mann.
13. The Narraburra siderite, New South Wales, exhibited by Archibald Liversidge.
14. Colour-printed geological maps, geological model of the Isle of Purbeck, exhibited by Jethro Justinian Harris Teall, the Director of the Geological Survey and Museum.
15. High power microscopy, exhibited by John William Gordon.
16. Models illustrative of mountain building, exhibited by John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury.
Room 4 (Council Room):
17. Apparatus for the metrical study of stationary electric waves on spiral wires, exhibited by John Ambrose Fleming.
18. A photographic study of the English skull 1600-1850, exhibited by Karl Pearson.
19. A cylindrical telescope for the rotation of images, exhibited by George James Burch.
20. Apparatus and methods employed for measuring, in the case of human blood, its content in agglutinating substances, bacterial substances, red blood corpuscles, albuminous substances, calcium salts and salts generally, exhibited by Almroth Edward Wright.
21. Photographs illustrative of induced radio-activity of bacteria, exhibited by Alan B. Green.
22. The differentiator, a machine recording as a curve the values of the rate of change of any variable quantity which can be represented by a curve, exhibited by James Robert Erskine-Murray.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
23. A new natural order of plants the Amphipterygiaceae Hemsley and Rose, fruits of Melocanna bambusoides and exalbuminous viviparous bamboo, Hydnophytum longifolium (Rubiaceae) Fiji Islands, Dischidia rafflesiana (Asclepiadeceae) Malaya, Aspidium anomalum Ceylon, exhibited by William Turner Thiselton Dyer, the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
24. Examples showing the application of natural colour photography to the production of lantern slides of spectra for lecture and educational purposes, exhibited by Edward Sanger-Shepherd.
25. Apparatus for determining the ignition point of gases, exhibited by Harold Baily Dixon and G. W. A. Foster.
26. Colour photographs shown by spectrum colours, exhibited by Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney.
27. Experiments to show the action that occurs between metals at a temperature many hundreds of degrees below their melting point, exhibited by Sherard Osborn Cowper-Coles.
28. Edison's secondary battery (or accumulator) for automobiles, exhibited by Walter Hibbert and Herman Ernest Dick.
29. Plants and photographs from the High Andes of Bolivia and Peru, exhibited by Arthur William Hill.
30. Specimens illustrative of cotton cultivation in British colonies and dependencies, map showing the 'cotton belt' and the British and foreign areas in which cotton is now commercially or experimentally cultivated, mineral and rock specimens from Ceylon and southern Nigeria, specimens of the seeds of Hevea brasiliensis (Para rubber tree) from the Straits Settlements, exhibited by Wyndham Rowland Dunstan, Director of the Imperial Institute.
31. Experiments on lubrication showing cavitation, exhibited by Mr. S. Skinner.
32. Experiments with non-homocentric pencils, exhibited by Mr. W. Bennett.
33. Vibrograph for recording vibrations photographically, micro-manometer, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company.
34. Steam gauge for indicating the rate of delivery of air or gas by a pipe, exhibited by Richard Threlfall.
35. Some new phosphorescent materials, exhibited by Mr. H. Jackson.
36. The pearl fisheries of Ceylon, exhibited by William Abbott Herdman.
37. Electrical instruments of precision, exhibited by Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton.
38. Photographs and diagrams illustrating solar and meteorological changes and a series of photographs to determine the relative temperatures of the stars,m exhibited by Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer.
39. Ten transparencies from negatives taken with the Rumford spectroheliograph of the Yerkes Observatory by Prof. G. E. [George Ellery] Hale and Mr. F. [Ferdinand] Ellerman, exhibited by the Royal Astronomical Society.
40. A set of coloured lantern slides of microscopic sections of igneous rocks, exhibited by Edmund Johnston Garwood.
41. Transparencies and prints in illustration of a Photographic Atlas of the Heavens, photographed at the Royal Observatory, Cape Town 1903-4, exhibited by John Franklin-Adams. 42. Microscopic slides illustrating nuclear division in cells of malignant growths of man, exhibited by John Bretland Farmer, John Edmund Sharrock Moore, and Mr. C. E Walker.
43. Microscopic preparations illustrating the parasitism of the Rust Fungi or Uredineae, exhibited by Harry Marshall Ward.
44. Ticks and tick-transmitted diseases, exhibited by George Henry Falkiner Nutttall.
45. Nematocysts of Aeolids, exhibited by Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor.
46. Microscopical preparations and diagrams of the Chromotophores of the higher Crustacea, exhibited by Frederick Keble and Frederick William Gamble.
47. International North Sea investigations, results of work during 1903 from Plymouth and Lowestoft laboratories, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
48. Microscopical preparations to show the fertilization and alteration of generations in the Uredineae, exhibited by Vernon Herbert Blackman.
Ground Floor (Committee Room):
49. Improved muffle and melting furnaces for use in laboratories of art studios, exhibited by Henry Harding Cunynghame.
50. Specimens of methyl and other derivatives of sulphur, selenium and titanium, exhibited by Alexander Scott.
Secretaries' Room:
51. Microphone-buzzer (with partially tuned telephone) giving a nearly pure note of 2,000 vibrations per second), apparatus used to investigate the distribution of temperature in the field coils of electric machinery, apparatus for rapid electric thermometry, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
52. A method of mechanically reinforcing sounds, exhibited by Mr. T. C. Porter.
53. Electric resistance furnace for laboratory use, exhibited by Bartram Blount.
54. Large direct vision spectroscope, exhibited by Mr. P. Heele.
55. Portable sounding machine for mountain lakes, exhibited by Edmund Johnston Garwood.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations by means of the electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
56. The recent investigation of the Ceylon pearl fisheries, illustrated by lantern slides, exhibited by William Abbott Herdman.
At 10.15 o'clock.
57. Lantern slides illustrative of (1) operations at the Simplon Tunnel (2) the Victoria Falls and Gorge of the River Zambesi and proposed bridge, exhibited by Francis Fox.
At 11.0 o'clock
58. Demonstration of the Auxetophone, exhibited by Charles Algernon Parsons.
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