| 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 demonstrations taking place at a specific time during the evening.
Room 1 (The Office):
1. Photograph of the solar spectrum from B to A taken in 1889, exhibited by Frank McClean.
2. Magazine rifle Mark 1, exhibited by William Anderson, Director-General of the Ordnance Factories.
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. Diagrams illustrating some of the most ancient topography of the British Isles, exhibited by Archibald Geikie, the Director General of the Geological Survey.
5. Views of Professor [Richard] Threlfall's Laboratory, Sydney, exhibited by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh.
6. Platinotype photographs, portraits of Arthur James Balfour, George Gabriel Stokes, Mrs Henry White, Miss Dorothy Tennant and William Ewart Gladstone, with children and female figures and photographs on fabric, exhibited by Eveleen Tennent Myers.
7. Brontometer or thunderstorm-measurer, exhibited by George James Symons.
8. Dr. Koenig's experiments on the production of beats and beat-tones, exhibited by Sylvanus Phillips Thompson.
9. Oscillating spark experiments, photographs showing the formation of drops, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
10. Jubilee portrait of the late Professor [Franz Cornelius] Donders, painted by Mrs Donders (Abrahamine Arnolda Louisa Hubrecht) and an uncompleted portrait of the same, by George Frederick Watts, exhibited by Sir William Bowman.
11. Sugar cane (Saccarum officinarum) seed and seedlings, exhibited by Daniel Morris.
12. 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.
13. The electrification of a steam jet, exhibited by Shelford Bidwell.
14. Measurement of high temperatures, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
15. An apparatus for stretching a liquid and measuring simultaneously the stress and strain, exhibited by Arthur Mason Worthington.
16. Portrait of Dr. Emin Pasha C.M.Z.S., and an original letter from him addressed to Mr. Sclater, dated Wadelai 15 April 1887, exhibited by Philip Lutley Sclater.
17. Hughes' type printing telegrams, working to the Continent, exhibited by Henry Cecil Raikes, the Postmaster-General.
18. A selection of transparent photographs showing various trees &c., from different parts of the world, illustrating the microscopic characters of some important timbers, and a selection of photographs showing how different are the symptoms exhibited by the same timber when attacked by different fungi, exhibited by Harry Marshall Ward.
19. Specimens of aquatic fen plants and algae occurring in the neighbourhood of Cambridge, specimens of the exhibitor's paper 'On a new method of printing photographic negatives employing living leaves in place of sensitive paper', exhibited by Walter Gardiner.
20. Botanical specimens, exhibited by Charles Alfred Barber.
21. Photographs and models of eggs of the Great Auk, exhibited by Edward Bidwell.
22. Diagrams in illustration of colour-blindness, exhibited by William Pole.
23. Tests for colour-blindness, exhibited by Karl Grossmann.
24. Tornado photographs, photographs of lightning, photographs of electric sparks explaining the formation of dark images of lightning flashes, exhibited by the Royal Meteorological Society.
25. Sixteen original photographs of stars, nebulae and clusters, exhibited by Isaac Roberts.
26. Specimens of a remarkable nickel-iron alloy (Awaruite) or terrestrial origin from New Zealand and of minerals and rocks with which it is associated, sent by Professor George Henry Frederick Ulrich, exhibited by John Wesley Judd.
27. A selection of Japanese sword-guards or Tsuba made of malleable iron and variously decorated with chased, hammered, and pierced work or with incrustations in gold, silver, shakudo, shibuichi and bronze, the majority of the examples shown represent plant forms and were executed between 1650 and 1850, exhibited by Arthur Herbert Church.
28. Japanese art metalwork, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
29. Ancient Egyptian colours discovered by William Matthew Flinders Petrie in the Fayoum and modern imitations of them, exhibited by William James Russell.
30. Colours used by 15th century painters, exhibited by Arthur Pillans Laurie.
31. Larvae of certain food-fishes, together with animals of interest from Plymouth Sound, exhibited by William Frank Raphael Weldon, on behalf of the Marine Biological Association.
32. The larvae of Amphioxus, exhibited by Edwin Ray Lankester.
33. Teleostean fishes preserved in a mixture of gum and glycerine as a means of preserving their natural colours, exhibited by Arthur Cort Haddon on behalf of Amyrald Haly, Director of the Colombo Museum.
34. Eggs of a large python (Python molorus) laid in the Zoological Society's Reptile House, exhibited by the Zoological Society of London.
35. A selection of butterflies collected in the great equatorial forest of Africa, by Henley Grose-Smith.
36. Two mummy heads of priests (12th and 18th Dynasties) from tombs near Assouan, Upper Egypt, exhibited by Alexander Macalister.
37. 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., onyx cameo with the head of Medusa found in the River Tiber probably 1st century B.C., two Roman Phalera of chalcedony, two ostrich egg-cups mounted in silver gilt, one English 1591-2, one Dutch c,1630, exhibited by John Evans.
38. A walking stick made of square bamboo (Bambusa quadrangularis) sent by Mr. R. Brazier from Wenchow, China, mounted in silver of Chinese workmanship, exhibited by John Hall Gladstone.
39. Photographs of the spectrum of the nebula in Orion, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
40. Photographs of musical sparks, done at Blythswood, Renfrewshire, exhibited by Sir Archibald C. Campbell.
Ground Floor (Archives Room):
Demonstration of the electrical variations of the hearts of Man and Dog, exhibited by Augustus Desire Waller.
Meeting Room:
The following exhibits with demonstrations by means of the electric lantern will take place at the times specified:
At 9.30 o'clock.
Animal and bird studies photographed from life, exhibited by Gambier Bolton.
At 10.15 o'clock.
The orientation of some ancient temples, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
At 11 o'clock.
Experimental demonstrations on electromagnetic repulsion phenomena, exhibited by John Ambrose Fleming and Ernst Thurnauer.
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