| 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 note of lantern slide displays taking place at a specific time during the evening.
Room 1 (The Office):
1. Complete installation of apparatus for the micro-photography of metals, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
2. Rontgen ray apparatus for localising purposes, stereoscopic X-ray photographs seen in a Wheatstone stereoscope, exhibited by James Mackenzie Davidson.
3. Models and photographs of the Linden Wave Motor Boat, exhibited by Robert Theodore Gunther.
4. Steljes printing telegraph recorder, exhibited by Louis Paschal Casella.
5. Coloured photographs of Yellowstone Park, U.S.A., by Mr. F. Jay Haynes of St. Paul, Minnesota, exhibited by Dr. Armstrong.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
6. The automatic telephone exchange system, exhibited by the Direct Telephone Exchange System.
7. Charts, sections and specimens illustrating some of the results of the investigations carried on in the Atoll of Funifuti (Ellice Group), South Pacific, exhibited by Admiral Sir William James Lloyd Wharton and John Wesley Judd on behalf of the Coral Reef Committee of the Royal Society.
8. Photographs of the Pyx Chapel, Westminster Abbey, and of the distribution of Maundy Coin, Westminster Abbey, exhibited by Sir Benjamin Stone.
9. Specimens of 'Naturographs' (prints produced by Dr. Selle's process of photography in natural colours), exhibited by Mr. R. B. Roxby.
10. Botanical studies in Grand Canary and Madeira in 1893.
Room 3 (Council Room):
11. Cathode ray lamps, effects of alternate current discharges in vacua, experiments upon the circulation of the residual gaseous matter in Crookes tubes, Rontgen ray camera showing the position dimensions and form of the source of the X rays in a Crookes tube, exhibited by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton.
12. Two models to represent in space the arrangement of the carbon and hydrogen atoms in the benzene molecule, photographs of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, exhibited by John Norman Collie.
13. Studies of wild orchids in Guiana, models of racial types in Guiana, by Mrs. Hannah Cassels im Thurn.
14. Photographs of marine animals, exhibited by Henry Clifton Sorby.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
15. Photographic spectra of southern stars to the 3½ magnitude, comparison of oxygen with the spectrum of the helium star beta Crucius, exhibited by Frank McClean.
16. The spectrum of Mira (omicron Ceti) compared with the spectra of other stars of Secchi's 3rd type, exhibited by Walter Sidgreaves.
17. An interference dilatometer of increased sensitiveness, exhibited by Alfred Edwin Tutton.
18. Apparatus exhibiting peculiarities of interference fringes when formed between silvered surfaces, exhibited by Edwin Edser.
19. A simple method of calibrating a spectrometer, exhibited by Edwin Edser and Charles Pritchard Butler.
20. Spectrum of Krypton a newly discovered constituent of the atrmosphere, exhibited by William Ramsay.
21. Set of fourteen original coloured drawings of the principal Cromlechs existing in the vicinity of Dublin, exhibited by Professor J. P. O'Reilly.
22. Roman barrel or tun of firewood found in a well in the Romano-British city at Silchester, Hampshire, in 1897, height 6 ft. 5 ½ inches, the staves are scratched with letters of the alphabet, exhibited by the Executive Committee of the Silchester Excavation Fund.
23. Botanical specimens, samples, diagrams and experiments illustrating the derivation, qualities, composition and properties of gutta-percha, exhibited by Eugene Obach.
24. New style of induction coil devised by MM. Wydts and Rochefort of Paris, exhibited by Messrs. W. Watson & Sons.
25. Experiments in relation to resonance, exhibited by Joseph Goold
26. One of the earlier Parsons steam turbines of three horse power driving a dynamo, speed of working 12,000 revolutions per minute, photographs of the Turbinia, and cavitation of water by a screw-propeller, exhibited by Charles Algernon Parsons.
27. Apparatus to illustrate the action of two electric motors when coupled so as to admit of rotation at different speeds, exhibited by Charles Ashley Carus-Wilson.
28. Healthy and unhealthy green oysters showing the causes of the colouration and the connection between oysters and disease, exhibited by William Abbott Herdman and Rubert Boyce.
29. The adaptions of marine animals to their environment illustrated by living examples of the higher crustacea, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
30. Elecrostatic phenomena in vacuum tubes, exhibited by Archibald Campbell, 1st Baron Blythswood and Edgar Walford Marchant.
31. Path of the Moon's shadow across Portugal and Spain during the total solar eclipse of 28 May 1900, by Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, the Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac.
32. Photographic and other observations made in India at the total solar eclipse of 22 January 1898, exhibited by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee.
33. Photographs taken by members of the expedition sent to India to observe the total eclipse of the Sun, exhibited by the Eclipse Committee of the British Astronomical Association.
34. Photographs of the sky in the neighbourhood of Monoceros, exhibited by Mrs. Annie Scott Dill Maunder.
35. The bacteriology of calf vaccine lymph, with special reference to the preparation of aseptic glycerinated lymph as now adopted by the Government, exhibited by Richard Thorne Thorne and Dr. Copeman.
36. A series of Lepidoptera, to illustrate some points in variation in connection with geographical distribution, exhibited by Walter Rothschild.
37. Insects captured in Canada and some adjacent States during a visit in connection with the meeting of the British Association in 1897, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
38. Case of medals bronzed by Japanese methods, exhibited by Horace Seymour, Deputy Master of the Mint.
39. Pictures taken on photographic plates by vapours from certain metals and certain organic bodies, exhibited by Dr. Russell.
40. A series of large stone implements collected by Sydney Ryan Esq., from the tin-bearing gravels of the River Embabaan in Swaziland, South Africa, exhibited by Thomas Rupert Jones and Mr. J. Ballot.
41. The local heliostat with a recent improvement, exhibited by George Johnstone Stoney.
42. Model illustrating Dr. Max Meyer's theory of audition, exhibited by Silvanus Phillips Thompson.
Ground Floor (Archives Room):
43. The production of clouds by the action of ultra-violet light, exhibited by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson.
44. Naval rangefinder, exhibited by Archibald Barr and William Stroud.
45. Electrical recording apparatus, exhibited by Hugh Longbourne Callendar.
46. Micrographic illustrations of deterioration in steel rails, micro-crystalline structure of iron, exhibited by Thomas Andrews.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations by means of the electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 10.0 o'clock.
47. Experiments on the flow of water, exhibited by Henry Selby Hele Shaw.
At 11.0 o'clock.
48. Photographs illustrating the total solar eclipse, 1898, and the Expedition to Viziadrug, exhibited by Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer.
Refreshments on the Ground Floor.
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