| 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 lantern slide displays taking place at specific times during the evening.
Room 1 (Officers' Room):
1. The electrical furnace as used for the melting of chromium, titanium, platinum and other metals with high melting points, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
2. Magnet, exhibiting the effects of currents in iron on its magnetization, exhibited by John Hopkinson.
Room 2 (The Office):
3. Metals of the platinum group, exhibited by Messrs; Johnson Matthey & Company.
4. An instrument for analysing primary and secondary volts and amperes simultaneously, exhibited by William Mitchinson Hicks.
5. A synchronizing alternating current motor and contact maker for the delineation of the form of alternating current and electromotive force curves and a form of resistance of small inductance for use with the apparatus, exhibited by John Ambrose Fleming.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
Room 4 (Council Room):
6. Generalized frequency curves, compound frequency curves, harmonic analyser, bi-projector, exhibited by the Applied Mathematics Department of University College London.
7. Spectra of argon and of helion mixed with argon, exhibited by William Ramsay.
8. Gradient indicator, exhibited by James Wimshurst.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
9. Charts showing the distribution of the nebulae and star-clusters and their relation to the Milky Way, exhibited by Sidney Walters by permission of the Royal Astronomical Society.
10. Photographic spectrum of Orionis, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
11. Latest form of Crompton Potentiometer for ratio measurements accuracy 1 in 1,000,000, simple forms of platinum thermometers for use with potentiometer, exhibited by Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton.
12. Students' simple apparatus for determining the mechanical equivalent of heat, exhibited by William Edward Ayrton.
13. Junkers' patent calorimeter, exhibited by Hermann Kuhne.
14. Four globes illustrating phenomena associated with the formation of clouds, exhibited by William Napier Shaw.
15. An electrical cabinet for use in the wards of a hospital, exhibited by Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson.
16. A mechanical device for performing temperature corrections in barometers, exhibited by John Shields.
17. A new form of barometer, exhibited by John Norman Collie.
18. Magnetic tester for measuring hysteresis in iron, exhibited by James Alfred Ewing.
19. The hydrogen wall - by means of this arrangement an increased efficiency in the reduction of the highly electro-positive metals from aqueous solutions is obtained, exhibited by Mr. L. Pyke.
20. Optical electric meters, exhibited by Major Holden R.A.
21. New and improved form of rocking microtome, new and improved form of spectrometer, improved form of Donkin's harmonograph, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company.
22. Marine organisms preserved in formic aldehyde, a new method of fixing methylene-blue preparations, the action of light on the under sides of flat fishes, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
23. Torsion model of submarine cable, exhibited by George Forbes.
24. Enlarged finger prints with descriptive notation, print of a hand of a child 86 days old, exhibited by Francis Galton.
25. The preparation of acetylene from calcic carbide, the combustion of acetylene for illuminating purposes, exhibited by Vivian Byam Lewes.
26. Specimens of the deposit or incrustation on the insulators of the electric light mains at St Pancras in which metallic sodium and potassium have been found and of the insulators and wood bearers which were in use on these mains, exhibited by Major Philip Cardew R.E.
27. Heterotype nuclear division in reproductive tissues of plants, exhibited by John Bretland Farmer
28. Microscopic specimens illustrating some appearances of nerve-cells, exhibited by Gustav Mann.
29. Experiments in connection with the transmission of infection by flies, exhibited by Mr. W. T. Burgess.
30. Wandering cells of the intestine, exhibited by Frank Fairchild Wesbrook and William Bate Hardy.
31. A living specimen of Malapterurus electricus from the River Senegal, exhibited by Francis Gotch and Henry Ogg Forbes, by permission of the Museum Sub-committee of the Liverpool Corporation.
32. A new bacterial species, exhibited by Stanley Kent.
33. Examples of variation in the size of beetles, exhibited by Daniel Sharp.
34. Sections of gold nuggets etched to shw crystalline structure, exhibited by Archibald Liversidge.
35. Clarkson's circlographs for drawing and measuring circular curves of any large radius without requiring the centre, with examples of curves, exhibited by Thomas Clarkson.
36. Examples of curious joints in carpentry, exhibited by Richard Inwards.
37. The radial cursor, a new addition to the slide rule, exhibited by Frederick William Lanchester.
Ground Floor (Secretaries' Room):
38. Electrically heated apparatus, showing the method of applying electricity for heating tools and appliances used in trade, also for domestic purposes, exhibited by Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton.
The Meeting Room:
The following exhibits with demonstrations by means of electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
39. Lantern slides illustrating the ethnography of British New Guinea, exhibited by Alfred Cort Haddon.
At 10.30 o'clock.
40. Results of recent experiments on the electric discharge in air, exhibited by William George Armstrong, Lord Armstrong.
Refreshments on the Ground Floor.
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