| 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. The catalogue concludes with a disclaimer: 'The descriptions of Exhibits in this Catalogue are supplied by the Exhibitors, who alone are responsible for their accuracy'.
Room 1:
1. The discharge of nervous impulses from sense organs, exhibited by Edgar Douglas Adrian and Dr. D. L. [e.g. Detlev Wulf] Bronk.
2. Fibre and yarn-testing instruments, specimens, exhibited by the British Silk Research Association.
3. Specimens of new ketone dyes, exhibited by Imperial Chemical Industries.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
The Mace of the Royal Society. Presented by King Charles II in 1663.
4. New fossil teeth and elephants from China, the 'Dragon's Teeth' of the Chinese medicine men, exhibited by Dr. H. S. Pearson and Arthur Tindall Hopwood.
5. Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, by C. Netscher, exhibited by Captain C. Berkeley.
6. Sir Isaac Newton's own copy of the first edition of the Principia with his autograph marginal notes, page of rough notes attributed to Newton, exhibited by H. W. Wykeham-Musgrave.
7. Manuscript of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia from which the first edition was printed, with autograph corrections, original reflecting telescope of Sir Isaac Newton, made with his own hands, exhibited by the Royal Society.
8. New process of colour photography, exhibited by Colour Photographs Limited.
9. Experiments with a vacuum cleaner, exhibited by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor.
Room 3:
10. Respiration in living marine animals, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
11. Crispations of liquids, exhibited by Sir William Henry Bragg.
12. Photometer for measuring the reflectivity of the ground from aeroplanes, exhibited by Lewis Fry Richardson.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
13. Apparatus for investigating surface films of insoluble substances, exhibited by Neil Kensington Adam.
14. Mosquitoes and their control, exhibited by the British Mosquito Control Institute.
15. Meniscus valve oscillator, exhibited by William Cramp.
16. Artificial telephone traffic machine, exhibited by the International Standard Electric Corporation.
17. Cherries and plums in fruit demonstrating self- and cross-incompatibility, exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution.
18. The oldest theodolite in the world, made by the Elizabethan craftsman Humphrey Cole in 1574, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
19. High temperature electrical resistance furnace (Dr. W. [Walter] Rosenhain and Mr. W. E. Prytherch), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
20. Changes in crystalline form of ammonium nitrate with change of temperature, exhibited by the Explosives Branch, Research Department, Woolwich.
21. Changes in crystalline form of ammonium nitrate with change of temperature, exhibited by the Explosives Branch, Research Department, Woolwich.
22. Fading of peacock's feathers in ultra-violet light, exhibited by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh.
23. Specimens illustrating properties of ferrous alloys and special metallurgical processes, exhibited by Sir Robert Hadfield.
24. Some marine mammals and bottom deposits obtained by the 'Discovery' Expedition, exhibited by the Scientific Staff of the 'Discovery' Expedition.
25. Chromosome linkage in Oenothera, exhibited by Reginald Ruggles Gates.
26. (For description - see no.14), exhibited by the British Mosquito Control Institute.
27. Embryos of Mus musculus cleared in cedar-wood oil and showing the circulatory system (Mr. B. Dawes), an early embryo of Mus musculus shown 'in utero' (Mr. B. Dawes), demonstration of skeleton of common newt by the alizarine transparency method (Mr. P. Gray), abnormalities produced by artificial fertilization and conditions (Miss D. Sladden), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, Imperial College of Science.
28. Vital staining with acid and basic dyes (from the Laboratories of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund), exhibited by Dr. R. J. Ludford.
29. Solid dipleidoscope prisms, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
30. Model of an armoured dinosaur (Mr. W. E. [William Elgin] Swinton), exhibited by the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
31. Heavy parasite infection in a whale (Dr. H. A. [Harry Arnold] Baylis), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
32. The giant shipworm (Kuphus arenarius Linn.) (Mr. G. C. [Guy Coburn] Robson), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
33. Variation and convergence in polyzoa (Miss A. B. [Anna Birchall] Hastings), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
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