| 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 list of the exhibits taking place at specific times during the evening. With an extra inserted sheet containing detailed descriptions of items exhibited by Walter Gardiner and exhibited by William Hay Caldwell.
Refreshments: tea and coffee in the Officers' Room, adjoining the Office, wines and ices on the Ground Floor
Room 1 (The Office):
1. Experiments with soap-bubbles, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
Room 3 (Council Room):
2. Gradational colour blender, exhibited by Sir Frederick Bramwell.
3. Large electrical influence machine, exhibited by James Wimshurst.
4. Photographs of flashes of lightning, exhibited by the Royal Meteorological Society.
5. New form of hygrometer for testing the strength of acids in batteries, and other apparatus, exhibited by James J. Hicks.
6. Sir William Thomson's models of foam or froth consisting of equal bubbles, exhibited by George Howard Darwin.
7. A pocket sundial, chased copper, heavily gilt, like an old-fashioned snuff-box, maker 'Krigner, Varsaviae' age unknown, exhibited by George James Symons.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
8. Drawing of the anatomy of the Lancelet (Amphioxus lanceolatus), exhibited by Edwin Ray Lankester.
9. Fine specimen of the electric eel (Gymnotus electricus), exhibited by the Zoological Society of London.
10. Selecting Microtome at work, illustrating a new method by which series of sections of microscopic objects may be made from fresh or fixed tissues, exhibited by William Hay Caldwell.
11. Robertson's writing telegraph, exhibited by John M. Richards.
12. New telegraph by which six messages are transmitted at the same time, exhibited by William Henry Preece.
13. Phoneidoscope colour figures, exhibited by Sedley Taylor.
14. Rare game birds from Central Asia, exhibited by Henry Seebohm.
15. New uses of the magnifying spring, exhibited by William Edward Ayrton and John Perry.
16. Experiments illustrating low-temperature spectra in connection with the spectra of meteorites, and a new chart of the Pleiades, prepared by the brothers Henry, from photographs taken at Paris, on 16 November and 14 December 1887, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
17. Models designed to illustrate the exhibitor's lectures on 'The Plant in the War of Nature', lately held at the Royal Institution, winged and plumed seeds, and photographs for the lantern, from original drawings and book illustrations used in the lectures, exhibited by Walter Gardiner.
18. Living flies sucking on sugar shown under the microscope by Mr. R. Macer's apparatus, exhibited by Frank Crisp.
19. Specimens of auriferous quartz, auriferous blende, and other gold-bearing minerals from Mr. Pritchard-Morgan's mine, Gwynfynnydd, near Dolgelly, North Wales. Ingot of gold from the above mine, weight 2,128 ounces, or 1cwt., 33lbs, value £8,400, exhibited by William Crookes.
20. Specimens illustrating an attempt to revive a branch of art metalwork [Mokume] now neglected in Japan, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
21. Specimens of quartz crystals illustrating their internal structure, exhibited by John Wesley Judd.
22. Precious stones mounted as rings, exhibited by Arthur Herbert Church.
23. Glass nests of live ants, illuminates and magnified, exhibited by Henry Burns.
24. Voice figures - figures and photographs of figures produced by the voice acting upon elastic discs, exhibited by Margaret Watts Hughes.
Ground Floor (Archives Room):
Telephone communication with the Savoy Theatre, 'The Pirates of Penzance' (by kind permission of Richard D'Oyly Carte)
Meeting Room:
The following exhibits with demonstrations by means of the new electric lantern (Messrs. Drake & Gorham) will take place at the times specified:
At 9.45 o'clock.
The freshwater jelly fish Limnocodium sowerbii, Allman and Lankester, exhibited by Edwin Ray Lankester.
At 10.15 o'clock.
Demonstrations of the effect of electrical stimulation on the stamens of Berberis vulgaris, the barberry, exhibited by Walter Gardiner.
At 10.45 o'clock.
Photographs exhibiting the meteoric hypothesis, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
Shrubs and flowers, exhibited by the Royal Horticulural Society.
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