| 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.
Room 1 (The Office):
1. Specimens of Moorish manufacture in brass, silver, leather and pottery, ornaments and embroidery worn by Berber tribes, ancient daggers and guns collected during an exploring expedition to Morocco and the Atrlas Mountains in 1888, exhibited by Harold Crichton-Browne.
2. Specimens of weldless steel tubes, made by the Mannesmann process of oblique rolling, exhibited by the Mannesmann Tube Company Limited.
3. Sketches made during the Autumn and winter of 1887 of sunsets and late afterglows, the latter attributed to the eruption of Krakatoa, 27 August 1883, total eclipse of the Moon, 28 and 29 January 1888, remarkably rich colour of cumuli in the S.E. at sunset, 30 August 1887, exhibited by William Ascroft.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
4. Sketches near the active volcano of Mauna Loa, on the island of Hawaii, and the extinct crater of Haleakala, on the Isle Maui, described in 'Fire Fountains of Hawaii', exhibited by Constance F. Gordon Cumming.
Room 3 (Council Room):
5. Acoustic apparatus illustrating polarization of light. Magnetic rotation of plane of polarization shown by projecting a polarized beam through a bar of heavy glass, and analysing by a 24-ray disk of mica or by fish-lens, Expansion and contraction by transverse electrification of the rings seen in quartz by convergent polarized light, object electro-plated with the metal cobalt (new process), exhibited by Sylvanus Phillips Thompson.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
6. Photographs, specimens and map, illustrative of the nitrate of soda industry and of the nitrate country, exhibited by Ralph Abercromby.
7. Rubies from the Burmah mines, English cut and mounted, and in the rough as found, exhibited by Mr. [G. S. ?] Streeter.
8. New form of gas battery, exhibited by Ludwig Mond and Carl Langer.
9. Samples of copper produced by the Elmore Depositing Process, sketches of the appearance under the microscope of ordinary deposited copper and copper made by the Elmore process, exhibited by Messrs Woodhouse and Rawson Limited.
10. Edison-Swan incandescent lamps, showing the 'Edison effect', exhibited by John Ambrose Fleming.
11. Photographs of Ceylon vegetation, exhibited by William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew.
12. A cluster of nests of a species of Swift (Collocalia) taken in one of the Society Islands, a specimen of Pluvianellus sociabilis, a plover obtained in South America, the tail of a Japanese Barndoor Cock, eleven feet long, and a Bearded Tits' nest built in Pampas grass heads, stuck in a flower pot in an aviary, exhibited by Mr. J. Young.
13. Head of Thomson's gazelle (Gazella thomsoni) from a specimen shot by H. C. V. Hunter in Masailand, Eastern Africa, and head of Grant's gazelle (Gazellla grangti) from a specimen shot by Frederick Holmwood, in the Kilmanjaro District of Eastern Africa, mummy of a small falcon (probably the Kestrel Tinnunculus alaudarius from the tombs at Thebes obtained from the natives by Mr. A. G. Scott, Tray of bird skins from St. Lucia, West Indies [Caribbean], collected by George Albert Ramage the naturalist employed by the Joint Committee of the Royal Society and British Association for the exploration of the Lesser Antilles, exhibited by Philip Lutley Sclater.
14. Gramme ring, rotating under the influence of the magnetism of the Earth, exhibited by Joseph Wilson Swan
15. Absorption spectrum of oxygen, exhibited by George Downing Living and James Dewar.
16. A model illustrating the formation of ocean currents, exhibited by Arthur William Clayden.
17. Apparatus for counting the dust particles in the atmosphere, exhibited by John Aitken.
18. Reaction-time instrument (working model), exhibited by Francis Galton.
19. Old telescope with parchment tubes, old telescope of stamped leather, both formerly the property of King Charles 1, exhibited by Arthur Henry Holland-Hibbert.
20. Stellar spectroscope designed by Dr. Copeland of Dun Echt Observatory for Lord McLaren, exhibited by Adam Hilger.
21. New polarizing prism (Ahrens' Patent), exhibited by Messrs. Harvey and Peak.
22. Prismatic reversing mirror, in which the reflected image rotates with the mirror, exhibited by Charles Baker, with kind permission of Frank Crisp.
23. Microscopical preparations illustrating the life-history of the Hessian Fly Cecidomyia destructor, exhibited by Frederick Enock.
24. A series of ancient wreaths and plant remains discovered last year by William Matthew Flinders Petrie in the cemetery of Hawara, Egypt, exhibited by Percy Edward Newberry, by kind permission of the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew.
25. Calcedonified tree-trunk from Arizona, USA, transverse tangential and radial microscopical sections of wood, exhibited by William Henry Preece.
26. Skull of a young male Ornithorhynchus 316mm long showing erupted teeth, skull of a young female 264mm long the teeth are replaced by horny plates, skull of an adult female 608mm long, showing horny plates, exhibited by Charles Stewart.
27. Hair from the Yenisei Mammoth, obtained by F. Schmidt of the Acad, Sci. St, Petersburg, and opals in matrix from Queensland, illustrating their structure and modes of occurrence, exhibited by Harry Govier Seeley.
28. Specimens exhibiting some of the naked-eye similarities in the construction of pearls and other mineral concretions.
29. Photographs of lightning flashes taken at Ealing on 6 June 1889, exhibited by Hermann Henry Hoffert.
30. Native specimens of Japanese art metalwork in the banded alloys known as 'Sumi-nagashi' (marbled) and Mokume (wood-grain), exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
31. Collections of specimens of Japanese red copper including thirty Hikite of panel-pushes and a Tsuba or sword-guard, exhibited by Arthur Herbert Church.
Ground Floor:
Edison's phonograph, exhibited by George Edward Gouraud.
Meeting Room:
The following exhibits with demonstrations by means of the electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
Projections by the electric lantern of photographs of the craters, lava-streams, and other interesting parts of the volcanoes of the Two Sicilies - Vesuvius, Etna, Stromboli and Vulcano, taken in May and June 1888 with a view to obtain materials for comparison in case of subsequent eruptions, exhibited by Tempest Anderson.
At 10.30 o'clock.
Projections by the electric lantern of the automatic electro-photographic apparatus used for his investigation of animal locomotion, projections illustrating consecutive phases of movement by various quadrupeds while walking, trotting, galloping, of birds while flying and of children while running, crawling, &c. exhibited by Eadweard Muybridge.
The shrubs and flowers exhibited by Mr. Weeks.
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