| 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 a specific time during the evening.
Room 1 (Officers' Room):
1. Bifilar pendulum in action, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company.
2. Instantaneous photographs of splashes, exhibited by Arthur Mason Worthington and Mr. R. S. Cole.
3. Cloud photographs taken in different parts of the world, exhibited by Captain David Wilson-Barker.
4. Small dynamo for measuring the permeability and hysteresis of iron, exhibited by William Edward Ayrton and Thomas Mather.
5. Different effects on superimposing a small alternating current on a direct current arc according as cored carbons or solid carbons are employed, exhibited by Mr. J. Frith.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
6. Exhibits illustrative of applications of the mathematical theory of frequency, exhibited by the Applied Mathematics Department, University College, London [including Karl Pearson and Alice Lee].
Room 3 (Council Room):
7. A series of seascape photographs, exhibited by Frederick H. Worsley-Benison.
8. New portable binocular field-glasses and stereo-telescopes, exhibited on behalf of Carl Zeiss.
9. Series of photographs taken by Rontgen rays, exhibited by John Macintyre.
10. Production by Rontgen rays of electric dust-shadows, experiments on Rontgen rays, exhibited by Silvanus Phillips Thompson.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
11. Photographic stellar spectra of Type III, photographic spectrum of Secchi's Type IV, series of photographic spectra of the variable star beta Lyra, compared with spectra of beta Orion and delta Taurus, exhibited by Frank McClean.
12. Electric discharges in vacuum, exhibited by Messrs. Siemens Brothers & Company.
13. The stereoscopic photo-chromoscope, exhibited by Frederic Eugene Ives.
14. Apparatus intended for the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution, exhibited by Robert Ludwig Mond.
15. Portable apparatus for the production of liquid air and oxygen, exhibited by James Dewar.
16. Steel tuning-bars and synchronising sound-generators, exhibited by Joseph Goold.
17. A series of 'Herkomer-gravures', exhibited by Hubert von Herkomer.
18. Photographs and specimens illustrating the natural history and ethnology of Australia, exhibited by William Saville Kent.
19. A group of recently described and other rare Birds of Paradise and Bower-birds, exhibited by Walter Rothschild.
20. Modifications of an experiment of M. Charles Margot by Professor Roberts-Austen, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
21. Specimens of boring marine animals, some rare or interesting marine organisms recently found at Plymouth, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
22. A new form of stereoscope, exhibited by Sir David Salomons.
23. Stereoscopic views of algebraic spherical catenaries and gyrostat curves, exhibited by Alfred George Greenhill and Thomas Inglis Dewar.
24. Microscopic internal flaws inducing fracture in steel axles, rails and propeller shafts, exhibited by Thomas Andrews.
25. Multiplication frame, exhibited by John Macfarlane Gray.
26. Working model of support for large specula designed to leave the line of collimation undisturbed, exhibited by George Johnstone Stoney.
27. A series of photographs of the electric discharge at various stages during the exhaustion of a Crookes' Bulb of the Jackson type, exhibited by Jethro Justinian Harris Teall.
28. Experiments to ascertain the period at which larvae are sensitive to surrounding colours, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
29. Model to illustrate the method of reconstruction from serial microscopical sections by the use of glass plates, exhibited by Andrew Francis Dixon.
30. Forms of variation in butterflies of the genus Heliconius of tropical America, exhibited by Walter Fielding Holloway Blandford.
31. Models of the flowers of Aristolochia gigas from Brazil, and of Stapelia gigantia from Natal (made by Miss Emett [Edith Delta Blackman] for the Museums of the Royal Gardens, Kew), photographs of Haematozoa of fly disease of South Africa (exhibited on behalf of the Government of Natal), exhibited by William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, the Director, Royal Gardens, Kew.
32. Stone hatchets which revolve smoothly on one face in one direction only, exhibited by Sir John Evans.
33. Two coloured casts of the New Zealand lizard Hatteria or Sphenodon, exhibited by Edwin Ray Lankester.
34. Examples of British lepidoptera (Rhopalocera) denuded of scales to illustrate their neuration, exhibited by Frederick James.
35. Gold nuggets showing internal crystalline structure, exhibited by Archibald Liversidge.
Ground Floor (Archives Room):
36. Demonstration of the use of phosphorescent materials in rendering X-rays visible, exhibited by Herbert Jackson.
Meeting Room:
The following exhibits with demonstrations by means of electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 9.30 o'clock.
37. Lantern exhibition illustrating the evolution of the cart and of the Irish jaunting-car, exhibited by Alfred Cort Haddon
At 10.0 o'clock.
38. Photographs of the Altels Avalanche, exhibited by Tempest Anderson.
At 10.30 o'clock.
39. Demonstration of the 'Herkomer-gravure process', exhibited by Hubert von Herkomer.
At 11.15 o'clock.
40. Liquid air demonstrations, exhibited by James Dewar.
Refreshments on the Ground Floor. |