| 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 list of the exhibits taking place at specific times during the evening. With an extra inserted sheet describing in detail the display by Professor J. W. Judd of recent borings in the Delta of the Nile.
Room 1 (Officers' Room):
1. An instrument to measure the light reflected from coloured pigments, exhibited by William de Wiveleslie Abney and Edward Robert Festing.
2. Experiments on the optical demonstration of electrical stress, exhibited by Arthur William Rucker and Charles Vernon Boys.
3. Large electrical influence machine, exhibited by James Wimshurst.
Room 2 (The Office):
4. Photographs of flashes of lightning, exhibited by the Royal Meteorological Society.
5. Radio-micrometer and experiments with soap-bubbles, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
6. Maps and diagrams illustrative of the recent work of the Geological Survey in the North-West Highlands, exhibited by Archibald Geike, Director-General of H.M. Geological Survey.
Room 4 (Council Room):
7. A system of ballot, for Members of Parliament and local governments, &c., exhibited by John Leighton.
8. Sections and specimens illustrating the recent borings in the Delta of the Nile, exhibited by John Wesley Judd on behalf of the Delta Committee.
9. Skins of wild geese received from Hudson's Bay, exhibited by John Rae.
10. Fossil plants from Ardtun in Mull, exhibited by John Starkie Gardner.
11. A series of photo-micrographs in illustration of the radulae of Mollusca, exhibited by Alfred Hands Cooke and Henry Melvill Gwatkin.
12. Photographs illustrating experiments in mountain building, exhibited by Henry Moubray Cadell.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
13. Set of thermometers specially constructed by Casella for use by Mr. Symons in determining the present temperature of the mineral springs in the Pyrenees, exhibited by George James Symons.
14. A apparatus for determining the hardness of metals or other substances, exhibited by Thomas Turner.
15. Robertson's writing telegraph, exhibited by John M. Richards.
16. A coulomb meter, exhibited by George Forbes.
17. Electrical translucent balloon for flashing signals by night, exhibited by Eric Stuart Bruce.
18. A series of living pictures in insect life, shown on a glass screen by aid of a lantern, exhibited by Henry Burns.
19. The new iridio platinum incandescent gas burner (Lewis & Sellon's patents), exhibited by Messrs. Johnson, Matthey & Company.
20. Apparatus for the isolation of the element fluorine, exhibited by Thomas Edward Thorpe.
21. Apparatus for measuring the changes produced by magnetisation in the dimensions of rods and rings of iron and other metals, exhibited by Shelford Bidwell.
22. Experiments illustrating low-temperature spectra in connection with the spectre of meteorites, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
23. Skeleton of an Akka, a Negro tribe [sic] from Central Africa, the smallest known race of men [original period language reproduced, noted as being offensive]. Sent by Dr. Emin Pasha for the British Museum, exhibited by William Henry Flower.
24. Charts showing lines of equal values of the magnetic elements. Epoch 1880, exhibited by Ettrick William Creak.
25. Photographs of the polar axis of a five foot telescope, December 1887, January 1888, exhibited by Andrew Ainslie Common.
26. Two standard thermometers of the new form approved by the Comite International des Poids et Mesures and a delicate balance indicating 1/100,000th of a grain, exhibited by Henry James Chaney.
27. Sir William Thomson's models of foam or froth consisting of equal bubbles, exhibited by George Howard Darwin.
28. Model of maximum pressure anemometer designed by Mr. [George Matthews] Whipple, Superintendent of Kew Observatory, exhibited by the Kew Committee.
29. The true teeth of Ornithorhynchus paradoxus (demonstration by means of electric lantern at 9.40 o'clock, by Sydney John Hickson), exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
30. A series of microscopic preparations showing the vestigial teeth of the Marsipobranch fishes (exhibited on behalf of Dr. J. Beard) and four engravings illustrative of the Gular brood-pouch, with its contained embryos, in the Batrachian Rhinoderma Darwinii) by permission of the Zoological Society of London, exhibited by George Bond Howes.
31. Specimens of gold showing the effect of small quantities of impurity on the fracture of the metal, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
32. Aphipleura pellucida (Acus) with 1/12th apochromatic homogenous immersion objective, exhibited by Messrs. Powell and Lealand.
33. Preparations of the early stages in the development of Millepora plicata, exhibited by Sydney John Hickson.
34. Vernon Harcourt's new pentane standard lamp, new carbon microphone button, samples of 'Adamantine' carbon, new chemical 'Pole Indicator', and Holophotometer for measuring the intensity of light all round, exhibited by the Woodhouse & Rawson Electric Supply Company.
35. Edison & Swan Company's safety lamp for miners, exhibited by the Edison & Swan United Electric Light Company.
36. Miners electric safety lamps, exhibited by the Schanschieff Electric Light and Power Company.
Ground Floor (Meeting Room):
At 9.30 o'clock and at intervals throughout the evening.
Image of electric sparks magnified with a camera lens and illustrating flashes of lightning, exhibited by William Marcet.
At 9.40 o'clock by the new electric lantern (Messrs Drake & Gorham).
Demonstration by Sydney James Hickson.
Lantern slides by Edward Bagnell Poulton of the true teeth of Ornithorhynchus paradoxus.
At 10 o'clock by the new electric lantern (Messrs Drake & Gorham).
Lantern views illustrating progress made with the erection of the great steel cantilevers spanning the 1,700 feet wide openings of the Forth Bridge, exhibited by Benjamin Baker.
(in the absence of Benjamin Baker, Professor Kennedy has kindly consented to give short explanations of the views).
At 9.40 o'clock by the new electric lantern (Messrs Drake & Gorham).
Lantern views of the interior working of a colliery, exhibited by Arthur Sopwith.
Refreshments on the Ground Floor.
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