| 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. Orchids of Guiana watercolour sketches, exhibited by Everard Ferdinand im Thurn.
Room 2 (The Office):
2. An apparatus to enable Rontgen ray shadows upon a fluorescent screen to be seen in stereoscopic relief, exhibited by James Mackenzie Davidson.
3. Models of geometrical figures of four dimensions, exhibited by Edmund Basil Wedmore.
4. Stone celt showing uni-directional rotation lent by Rev. Dr. [James Maxwell] Joass, Golspie, Scotland, wooden model invented and made by Mr. Robert B. Sangster, framer of Rovie, Roigart, Scotland, explaining the dynamical principles, instrument-makers' copies of Mr. Sangster's models, exhibited by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.
5. Photographs taken by Sir Benjamin Stone M.P., during the recent Parliamentary tour in Ireland, and other excavations &c., now proceeding at the Tower of London.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
6. Photographs of Pategonia, exhibited by Francisco Pascasio Moreno, Director of the La Plata Museum, Argentine Republic.
7. Specimens from the boring in the coral reef of Funafuti and from the boring in the lagoon, exhibited by the Coral Reef Committee of the Royal Society.
8. Milne horizontal-pendulum seismograph with specimen of the seismograms yielded by it, exhibited by the Victoria and Albert Museum for the Seismological Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Room 4 (Council Room):
9. Experiments showing the effects produced by the action of modifications of the Wehnelt Caldwell Interrupter, exhibited by Joseph Wilson Swan.
10. A new influence machine, exhibited by Mr. W. R. Pidgeon.
11. Japanese painting (Kakemono), exhibited by William Gowland.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
12. Enlarged photographs taken by Surgeon-Major [David] Bruce illustrating districts in South Africa affected by the Tsetse Fly disease, exhibited by the Tsetse Fly Committee of the Royal Society.
13. Photographs of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, exhibited by John Norman Collie.
14. Silvered photographic grating, diffraction colour photography, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys and Robert Williams Wood of the University of Wisconsin.
15. Experiments on the hissing of the electric arc, exhibited by Mrs. Hertha Ayrton.
16. Experiments demonstrating multiple vision, exhibited by Shelford Bidwell.
17. A collection of Cingalese Podostemacae, exhibited by Francis Wall Oliver.
18. Model of the Turbinia the first vessel propelled by steam turbine engines, model of torpedo boat destroyer of 35 knots guaranteed speed and 10,000 I.H.P., model of Atlantic liner of 38,000 I.H.P., and 27 knots speed, exhibited by the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company Limited.
19. Histological preparations of plant tissues demonstrating the 'connecting threads' which traverse the cell walls and establish a means of communication between the several cells, exhibited by Walter Gardner and Arthur William Hill.
20. Methods of feeding of marine animals illustrated by living and preserved examples, an opening and closing tow-net for horizontal towing at any depth, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
21. Experiments with electrolytic contact breakers, exhibited by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton.
22. Experiments showing the making of tubes from rock crystal in the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe flame, exhibited by William Ashwell Shenstone and Mr. W. T. Evans.
23. Michelson echelon grating spectroscope, Thorpe's film replicas of Rowland's gratings mounted in direct vision pocket spectroscope dividing D, exhibited by Adam Hilger.
24. Photographs of stellar spectra &c., taken at the Solar Physics Observatory, South Kensington, exhibited by Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer.
25. Ancient metals from Egypt, Babylon and Britain, exhibited by John Hall Gladstone.
26. A small collection of polished stone-implements from the Baram District, Sarawak, Borneo, exhibited by Arthur Cort Haddon.
27. Diamonds in Eclogite, exhibited by Thomas George Bonney.
28. A model to illustrate how natural curliness of the hair is produced, exhibited by Arthur Thomson.
29. Exhibition of cultures and microscopical specimens of certain pathogenic bacteria, exhibited by Allan Macfadyen for the Jenner Institute of Preventative Medicine.
30. Various marine animals mounted in glycerine as museum specimens, exhibited by Henry Clifton Sorby.
31. Natural colour photographs of zoological and botanical subjects, mostly from life, taken and prepared by the exhibitor, exhibited by William Saville-Kent.
32. Collections of mosquitoes recently received at the Natural History Museum for study in reference to the connection of malaria with mosquitoes, drawings of mosquitoes by Ernest Edward Austen.
33. Microscopic specimens showing the development of the parasite of malaria, exhibited by Patrick Manson.
Ground Floor (Archives Room):
34. The phase-change associated with the reflection of light from a Fuchsine film, exhibited by Edward Edser.
35. The molten platinum standard of light, exhibited by Joseph Ernest Petavel.
Meeting Room.
The following demonstrations with experiments and lantern illustrations will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
36. Photographs illustrating the eruption of Vesuvius, September 1898, taken by the exhibitor during a stay of a week on the mountain, exhibited by Tempest Anderson.
At 10.30 o'clock.
37. On some of the phenomena of phosphorescence, exhibited by Herbert Jackson.
At 11.15 o'clock.
38. Views in the Bolivian Andes and Tierra del Fuego,, exhibited by Sir Martin Conway.
Refreshments on the Ground Floor.
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