| 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. Portrait in wax of Sir Isaac Newton, exhibited by Sir Richard Glazebrook.
2. Eggs and young of marine food-fishes, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
3. The Hilger prism interferometer, the mutochrome, exhibited by Messrs. Adam Hilger.
4. A male monk-fish (Squatina) from the lithographic stone (Upper Jurassic) of Wurttemberg, exhibited by the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
5. The skull and feet of Moropus a mammal from the Lower Miocene of Nebraska, exhibited by the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
6. Evolution of certain Hoplitid ammonites (Dr. L. F. [Leonard Frank] Spath), exhibited by the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
Room 2 (Reception Room):
The Mace of the Royal Society. Presented by King Charles II in 1663.
7. Photographs of flame propagation in gaseous explosions, exhibited by William Arthur Bone and Mr. R. P. Fraser.
8. Photographs of eminent scientific men taken by the exhibitor at various dates, exhibited by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton.
9. Models, microscope and other preparations illustrating the scent producing organs found in insects and employed by them in courtship and defence, exhibited by Harry Eltringham.
10. South African succulents, exhibited by Arthur William Hill, the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Room 3:
11. Apparatus for measuring the depth of water, exhibited by John Switzer. Owens.
12. Records of the lateral vibration of a ship's hull, exhibited by Mr. A. D. Browne, Eric Balliol Moullin, Mr. G. McLaren Paterson and the Cunard Steamship Company Limited.
13. Industrial applications of photo-electric cells, exhibited by the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company.
14. Constituents of cosmetic found in tomb of Tutankh-Amen, exhibited by Alfred Chaston Chapman and Harold James Plenderleith.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
15. Virus disease of the potato, exhibited by the Potato Virus Research Station, Cambridge.
16. Some recent advances in ultra-violet microscopy, exhibited by Joseph Edwin Barnard.
17. Projection of fringes due to a Fabry-Perot interferometer (Mr. J. E. Sears Junr., and Mr. H. Barell), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
18. Plants highly toxic to insects, exhibited by the Rothamsted Experimental Station.
19. Polyploids in Solanum (Mr. M. B. [Morley Benjamin] Crane and Dr. F. W. [Frederick Whalley] Sansome), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institute.
20. A unique inherited character in a fern (Scolopendrium vulgare) - chromosome reduction at an unusual stage of development (Miss I. [Irma] Andersson-Kotto and Miss A. E. Gairdner), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institute.
21. The silver pocket-sundial of the first Duke of Marlborough (John Churchill 1650-1722) whose arms and motto are engraved on the face of it, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
22. Brown artificial horizon, exhibited by Sidney George Brown.
23. Vital staining of aquatic animals, exhibited by Dr. R. J. Ludford.
24. Chemical luminescence, exhibited by Eric Keightley Rideal.
25. Flutter of model aeroplane wings (Mr. R. A. [Robert Alexander] Frazer and Mr. W. J. [William Jolly] Duncan), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
26. Specimens illustrating properties of ferrous alloys also special metallurgical and other processes, exhibited by Sir Robert Hadfield.
27. Effect of sunlight on green celluloid, exhibited by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh.
28. Living bipinnarial larvae of the common starfish (Asterias rubens) artificially reared, exhibited by Ernest William MacBride.
29. Influence of temperature gradients on development, exhibited by Miss M. A. Tazelaar and Julian Sorrell Huxley.
30. The growth, development and phosphatase activity of early embryonic femurs and limb-buds cultivated in vitro (Dr. H. B. [Honor Bridget] Fell and Dr. R. [Robert] Robison, Lister Institute), the effect of x-rays on living tissue cultivated in vitro (Miss S. F. Cox), the effect of mitosis in vitro of (a) radium (Dr. R. G. [Ronald George] Canti and Mr. F. G. [Frederick Gordon] Spear) (b) low temperature (Mr. F. G. Spear), the delayed lethal dose of radium on tissue cultures in vitro (Mr. F. G. Spear), exhibited by the Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge.
31. Morphological parallelism in different orders of insects (Miss Daphne Aubertin), exhibited by the Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History).
32. The colour and pattern of certain woodpeckers (Mr. P. R. [Percy Roycroft] Lowe and Mr. N. B. [Norman Boyd] Kinnear), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
33. Models (x3) of the remarkable abyssal cephalopod Melanoteuthis beebei (Octopoda) (Mr. G. C. [Guy Coburn] Robson), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
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