| 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. Demonstration of the properties of crystals yielding doubly-refracting liquids on fusion, exhibited by Mr. H. L. Hartley and Mr. H. B. Bowman.
Room 2 (The Office):
2. A clock controlled at a distance by wireless telegraphyof the Hertzian wave system, exhibited by Richard Kerr.
3. Box with a painted interior [believed to have been painted by 'De Hooge Straten', eg Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten], exhibited by Sir Henry Howarth.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
4. Specimens from the reefs of Funafuti, exhibited by Professor John Wesley Judd on behalf of the Coral-Reef Committee of the Royal Society.
5. Restorations of Dimorphodon, exhibited by Harry Govier Seeley.
Room 4 (Council Room):
6. Reproductions of paintings and sculptures in tombs of ancient Egypt representing domestic and wild animals and birds, exhibited by Edwin Ray Lankester on behalf of the Egypt Exploration Fund.
7. Ethnographic objects from Malay Peninsula (Malay and Sakai), exhibited by Walter William Skeat.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
8. Maps illustrating the total eclipse of the Sun of 28 May 1900, exhibited by Arthur Matthew Weld Downing.
9. Specimen map from the London School Atlas, exhibited by Hugh Oakley Arnold-Foster M.P.
10. An influence machine constructed from twelve plates of vulcanite, exhibited by James Wimshurst.
11. Grating films (Cellodin) and their application to diffraction colour photography (Wood), exhibited by Thomas Thorp.
12. Flashes induced in a helium tube by Hertz waves, exhibited by George Minchin Minchin.
13. Section cut from the tree on Lake Bangweulu, Central Africa, under which [David] Livingstone's heart was buried and containing the inscription carved by his native followers, exhibited by the Royal Geographical Society.
14. Examples of leadless glazed ware, exhibited by Thomas Edward Thorpe.
15. Photograph of the statue of the late Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Pres. R.S., now in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, exhibited by Mr. H. R. Holder.
16. The decorative art of the Sea Dayaks of Saarawak, exhibited by Alfred Cort Haddon.
17. Electromagnatic experiments, exhibited by Silvanus Phillips Thompson.
18. Apparatus constructed of vitreous silica, exhibited by William Ashwell Shenstone and Mr. H. G. Lacell.
19. Marine annelids and their habits, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
20. Jointing boxes and aigrettes used in the re-arrangement of the lightning conductors of St. Paul's Cathedral, old form of the joint making an imperfect connection, drawings (fig.1) showing faulty earth connections also (figs 2 and 3) of new earths (fig 4) plan of the new installation, photograph showing damage to chapel at Thirsk, exhibited by Killingworth Hedges.
21. A volume of photographs of stars, star-clusters and nebulae, exhibited by Isaac Roberts.
22. Remains of extinct gigantic and lesser Lemurs from Madagascar and living forms for comparison, exhibited by Charles Immanuel Forsyth-Major.
23. Anthropometric instruments, exhibited by John George Garson.
24. Longitudinal sections of filariated mosquitoes (Culex ciliaris) showing that Filaria nocturna like the malaria parasite leaves its mosquito host via the proboscis, exhibited by Patrick Manson.
25. Models illustrating leakage from electric tramways, exhibited by Alexander Pelham Trotter.
26. Examples of chalk fossils, exhibited by Arthur W. Rowe.
27. Improved forms of standard resistance coils, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Limited, Cambridge.
Ground Floor (Committee Room):
28. An electric micrometer, exhibited by Mr. P. E. Shaw.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations by means of the electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
29. Modern explosives, illustrations and results connected therewith, exhibited by Sir Andrew Noble
At 10.30 o'clock.
30. The photomicrography of chalk fossils by reflected light, exhibited by Arthur W. Rowe.
At 11.15 o'clock.
31. Lantern illustrations of photographs from living insects showing the metamorphoses of one of the Odonata, exhibited by Frederick Enock.
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