| 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 note of a lantern slide display taking place at a specific time during the evening.
Room 1 (Officers' Room):
1. Experiments and photographs (to be shown by projection) illustrating the use of the capillary electrometer for investigating rapid changes of potential, exhibited by George James Burch and John Burdon Sanderson.
2. Demonstration of the electrical variations of the heart of Man and Dog, exhibited by Augustus Desire Waller.
Room 2 (The Office):
3. Series of specimens illustrating deep borings in the South of England, series of specimens illustrating the dynamical metamorphism of rocks, sketch map showing the position of the deep borings…, by William Topley, two sections across London by William Whitaker, exhibited by Archibald Geikie, the Director General of the Geological Survey.
4. Specimens of minerals brought from Ceylon by Charles Barrington Brown, exhibited by John Wesley Judd.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
5. Views of Professor [Richard] Threlfall's Laboratory, Sydney, exhibited by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh.
Room 4 (Council Room):
6. Brontometer, or thunderstorm-measurer, exhibited by George James Symons.
7. Maps to illustrate magnetic surveys of special districts in the United Kingdom, exhibited by Arthur William Rucker and Thomas Edward Thorpe.
8. Oscillating spark experiments, photographs showing the formation of drops, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
9. Sugar cane (Saccarum officinarum) seed and seedlings, exhibited by Daniel Morris.
10. A selection of transparent photographs showing the habits &c., of various trees from different parts of the world and the comparative structure and anatomy of several European timbers, with some of the more prominent features of disease of wood &c., and fungi causing them, exhibited by Herbert Marshall Ward.
11. The electrification of a steam jet, exhibited by Shelford Bidwell.
12. Gramme dynamo worked as a motor fitted with bearings of a new carbon composition which does not require oil for lubrication, vortex speed indicator driven by the above, fitted with oilless bearings, exhibited by Killingworth Hedges.
13. An instrument for testing colour vision, polarization of light by chlorate of potash crystals, exhibited by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh.
14. Photographs of eggs of the Great Auk, exhibited by Edward Bidwell.
15. Specimens of Simony's Lizard (Lacerta simonyi) from the lonely rock of Zalmo, near the Island of Ferro, Canaries, exhibited by the Zoological Society of London.
16. Electric-radiation meter for obtaining quantitative measurements of the intensity of the radiations emitted by an electric oscillator, exhibited by Walter G. Gregory.
17. Breath figures showing that polished surfaces placed near to bodies in low relief often take an impression of the detail, which is made visible by breathing upon the surface, exhibited by W. B. Croft.
18. Optical rotator, natural diffraction-grating of quartz, new straight-vision prisms, colour experiments, exhibited by Sylvanus Phillips Thompson.
19. Experimental illustration of the recent investigations of M. Osmond on molecular changes which take place during the cooling of iron and steel, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
20. Specimen of phosphorus oxide and apparatus for preparing the same, exhibited by Thomas Edward Thorpe and Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton.
21. Photographs of flashes of lightning taken in the neighbourhood of London during the thunderstorm on the evening of 6 June 1889, photographs showing the devastation caused by the tornado at Rochester, Minnnesota, USA, on 21 August 1883, exhibited by the Royal Meteorological Society.
22. Photographs of the spectrum of the nebula in Orion, photographs of the arc spectrum of manganese, showing the use of silver poles in eliminating impurities, photographic comparison spectra of Sun and arc in the region b to B, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
23. Stellar photographs, exhibited by Isaac Roberts.
24. The larvae of Amphioxus, exhibited by Edwin Ray Lankester.
25. A selection of butterflies collected in the great equatorial forest of Africa, by Henley Grose-Smith.
26. The kinetic paradox, a remarkable result of double circular motion, exhibited by Henry Perigal.
27. New measuring polariscope, for measuring the angles between the optic axes of biaxial crystals, exhibited by William Grylls Adams.
28. Collection of iridescent crystals of chlorate of potash to illustrate the production of colour and its intensification by reflection from multiple thin plates, exhibited by Alexander Hodgkinson.
29. Some patterns of Dr. Lodge's lightning protector for cables and for telegraphic work generally, Muirhead's portable form of the Clerk standard cell, standard condenser, set of Thomson and Varley slides small, Saunders' capacity key, Saunders' reversing key, exhibited by Alexander Muirhead.
30. Specimens of aluminium and alloys manufactured by the Aluminium Company Limited, exhibited by Henry Enfield Roscoe.
31. Specimens illustrating ancient copper and bronze from Egypt and Assyria, exhibited by John Hall Gladstone.
32. Three pages of an ancient Egyptian book on medicine written on papyrus by a scribe named Usertesen Sen in the twenty-sixth or twenty-fifth century before Christ, facsimile of an unpublished papyrus preserved in the British Museum, containing medical prescriptions written in the Egyptian hieratic writing of the XIXth Dynasty (B.C. 1400-1200), exhibited by Percy Newberry by kind permission of William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
33. Egyptian spear-head of bronze, bearing the name and titles of Kames a king at the end of the XVII Dynasty circa 1750 B.C., exhibited by John Evans.
34. Continuously recording hair hygrometer, curves produced by the anemometers on the summit of the Eiffel Tower and on that of the Central Meteorological Office at Paris, isochronous regulator for electric currents, exhibited by MM. Richard Freres, Paris.
Ground Floor (Meeting Room):
At 10 o'clock by means of the electric lantern.
Chaetopae, medusae, ascidians, nudibranchs and other invertebrae, prepared as lantern slides, showing not only the general form, but also much of their anatomy, exhibited by Henry Clifton Sorby.
Refreshments of the Ground Floor.
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