| 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. Illustrations of the Dansac-Chassagne process of producing photographs in colour, exhibited by Sir Henry Trueman Wood.
2. Apparatus for ascertaining duration of explosion, pressure developed, and rate of cooling of products of combustion, exhibited by Sir Andrew Noble.
3. Stress effects produced by convective electric discharges, exhibited by Joseph Wilson Swan.
4. Apparatus for the comparison of thermometers, exhibited by William Watson.
Room 2 (The Office):
5. A powerful electrical influence machine, exhibited by James Wimshurst.
6. Model of a Hertz wave transmission, two kinematic models, exhibited by Silvanus Phillips Thompson.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
7. Graphic representation of the Rothamsted Observations on the continuous growth of wheat, exhibited by Henry Edward Armstrong.
8. Certain bones of the ancient Naquada race, exhibiting characters of morphological or pathological interest, exhibited by Ernest Warren.
9. Restored skeleton of Aepyornis hildebrandi (Burckhardt) from Madagascar, Nesopithecus roberti (Forsyth-Major), exhibited by Charles Immanuel Forsyth-Major.
10. Glacial phenomena of Cambrian or pre-Cambrian age, from the Varanger Fiord, Norwegian Lapland, exhibited by Aubrey Strahan, through Horace Bolingbroke Woodward.
Room 4 (Council Room):
11. Photographs of the Moon taken with the new Thompson 26 in. photographic telescope at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, exhibited by Sir William Christie, the Astronomer Royal.
12. Photographic atlas of the Moon, published by the Observatory of Paris, executed by MM. [Maurice] Loewy and [Pierre Henri] Puiseux, exhibited from the Library of the Royal Society.
13. Photographs illustrating enhanced lines in the spectra of the chemical elements and the importance of such lines in the spectra of the hottest stars, solar photographs taken at Dehra Dun, India, showing a kite and a locust projected on the Sun's disc, photographs illustrating the spectroscopic results obtained by the Eclipse Expedition to Novaya Zemlya August 1896, photographs illustrating preparations and arrangements for the observation of the total eclipse of the Sun August 1896 at Kio Island, Varanger Fjord, Norway, photographic comparison showing the presence of a fluting of carbon in the ultra-violet spectrum of the Sun taken with a Rowland concave grating, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
14. Experiments with cathode and x-rays, exhibited by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
15. A selection of dried plants from Tibet, collected by Captain [Henry Hugh Peter] Deasy and Mr. Arnold Pike, Captain [Montagu Sinclair] Welby and Lieut. [Neill] Malcolm, exhibited by William Turnet Thiselton-Dyer, the Director, Royal Gardens, Kew.
16. Photographs illustrating the micro-structure of alloys, exhibited by Mr. J. E. Stroud.
17. Some photographs of optical projections in space, exhibited by Eric Stuart-Bruce.
18. Apparatus showing the phase change of light reflected at a glass-silver surface, exhibited by Mr. E. Edser and Mr. H. Stansfield.
19. Apparatus for micro-photography, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
20. Living specimens of Proteus anguinus Laurenti, male and female, pigmented individual from cave, young specimen pigmented during nine months' exposure to light and increased temperature, exhibited by Edward Jeremiah Bles.
21. A collection of British Medusae, exhibited by Edward Thomas Browne.
22. Experiments with highly dilatable and nearly non-dilatable nickel steel, diagrams of expansion, compensated pendulum made of nickel steel, exhibited by Charles Edouard Guillaume, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures.
23. Superficial colour changes of a silver-zinc alloy, x-ray photographs of sodium-gold alloys, exhibited by Charles Thomas Heycock and Francis Henry Neville.
24. Improved hatchet planimeter, the cyclesograph an instrument for describing arcs of circles of large radius, exhibited by Ernest Kilburn Scott.
25. The diffraction kaleidoscope, exhibited by Mr. C. P. Butler.
26. A mid-water tow net, exhibited by George Herbert Fowler.
27. Rotating discs showing subjective colour phenomena, exhibited by Shelford Bidwell.
28. Demonstration of Zeeman's discovery of the broadening of spectrum lines by the action of a magnetic field on the source of light, exhibited by Oliver Lodge.the Marine Biological Association
29. Commensalism among marine animals, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
30. Experiments on the transmutation of sound vibrations, exhibited by Joseph Goold.
31. Examples of animal-forms peculiar to Lake Tanganyika, exhibited by John Edmund Sharrock Moore.
32. The tsetse fly and the parasite of tsetse fly disease, or Ngana, exhibited by Alfredo Antunes Kanthack, Walter Holloway Fielding Blandford, and Herbert Edward Durham.
33. Egg of Aepyornis maximus (Grandidier) Magagascar, egg of African ostrich for comparison, photograph of a fossil frog (Discoglossus troscheli, Meyer sp.) from the lignite (Miocene) of Rott, Near Bonn, and skiagraphy of a recent frog of the same genus (Discoglossus pictus, Otth.) for comparison by Messrs, James Green and James H. Gardiner, exhibited by Henry Woodward, on behalf of Mr. R. [Robert Ferris?] Damon.
34. Ceraterpeton galvani, Huxley, coal measures Kilkenny, Ireland, exhibited by Henry Woodward for Mr. J. G. Robertson, Dublin.
35. Living specimens of the British Mymaridae (egg parasites) terrestrial and aquatic, mounted specimens of newly discovered genera, mounted specimens of newly discovered male Prestwichia, exhibited by Mr. F. Enock.
36. Specimens of Lepidoptera altered by temperature experiments and reared by the exhibitor, some results of crossings carried out by the exhibitor, exhibited by Maximillian Rudolph Standfuss.
37. Examples of alteration of insects by temperature applied in the pupal stage, exhibited by Frederick Merrifield.
38. Some examples of geographical distribution among the micro Lepidoptera, with specimens from different regions and coloured maps, exhibited by Thomas de Gray, 6th Baron Walsingham.
39. Blood corpuscles of some invertebrate animals, digestive gland of Ostrea, exhibited by Charles Alexander MacMunn.
40. A rotating mirror specially made to the order of the exhibitor by the Cambridge Instrument Co., exhibited by Sir David Salomons.
41. A rowing indicator giving a continuous record, exhibited by Mr. F. C. Atkinson.
42. A new pocket mercurial standard barometer, exhibited by John Norman Collie and Henry Hugh Peter Deasy.
43. An apparatus for investigating the influence of proximity of substances on voltaic action, exhibited by George Gore.
44. Micrometer for microscopic measurement of large objects, manufactured by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, exhibited by Walter Frank Raphael Weldon.
45. Earth thermometer, a simple apparatus for the determination of earth temperatures, exhibited by Ernest Howard Griffiths.
Ground Floor (Secretaries' Room):
46. Experiments illustrating a new method of controlling the electric arc in its application to photomicrography, exhibited by Thomas Albert Briggs Carver and Joseph Edward Barnard.
47. Kamm's 'Zerograph' or a printing telegraph system, exhibited by Leonard Ulrich Kamm.
48. New phototheodolite designed by Mr. J. Bridges-Lee, exhibited by Mr. Casella.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations with experiments and lantern illustrations will take place at the times specified.
At 10.0 o'clock.
49. Experimental demonstration of 'Some electric and mechanical analogues', exhibited by William Edward Ayrton.
At 11.0 o'clock.
50. Lantern slides from photo-micrographs illustrating nuclear division in animal and vegetable cells, exhibited by John Bretland Farmer.
Refreshments on the Ground Floor.
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