| 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 (Officers' Room):
1. Photographs of the Kanchinjinga Group from Sikkim and Nepal, taken during Mr. [Douglas] Freshfield's expedition in 1899,. Exhibited by Edmund Johnston Garwood.
Room 2 (The Office):
2. The inert atmospheric gases, their spectra and some of the apparatus used in determining their physical properties, exhibited by William Ramsay and Morris William Travers.
3. Photographs of the exhibits sent to the Paris Exhibition in illustration of the work done at the Rothamsted Experimental Farm, exhibited by the Lawes Agricultural Trust Committee. 4. North Atlantic weather charts winter 1898-99, exhibited by the Meteorological Office.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
5. Specimens from the reefs of Funafuti, exhibited by Professor John Wesley Judd on behalf of the Coral-Reef Committee of the Royal Society.
6. Box with a painted interior [believed to have been painted by 'De Hooge Straten', eg Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten], exhibited by Sir Henry Howarth.
7. Watercolour drawings of the fundus of the mammalian eye showing the appearance it presents in the various families and orders as seen with the ophthalmoscope, a series of coloured drawings showing vestigial relics and retrograde forms of the 'Pecten' occurring in the Mammalia as seen with the ophthalmoscope, a series of coloured drawings of the front of the eye in the Ungulata showing the 'Umbraculum', and other forms of iritic appendages, drawn from life, exhibited by George Lindsay Johnson.
Room 4 (Council Room):
8. Reproductions of paintings and sculptures in tombs of ancient Egypt representing domestic and wild animals and birds, and archaeological figures and scenes, exhibited by the Archaeological Survey of the Egypt Exploration Fund.
9. Photographs of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, prepared for the Paris Exhibition, exhibited by William Turner Thiselton Dyer, the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
10. Stereoscopic fluoroscope, rotatory mercury break, exhibited by James Mackenzie Davidson.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
11. Drawings and photographs of the total solar eclipse of 28 May 1900, exhibited by the Eclipse Committee of the British Astronomical Association.
12. A model to illustrate and experiment upon the balancing of four-cylindered engines, exhibited by William Ernest Dalby.
13. Experiments on the aberration called Coma, exhibited by Silvanus Phillips Thompson.
14. Flashes induced in a helium tube by Hertz waves, exhibited by George Minchin Minchin.
15. A collection of coloured crystals of chlorate of potash, exhibited by Richard Threlfall.
16. Japanese books on botany, intended to show the general character of the work of Japanese botanists from 1759 to 1856, exhibited by William Gowland.
17. Remains of a Roman refinery found at Silchester, exhibited by William Gowland for the Silchester Excavation Committee.
18. Electric supply meter (a frictionless motor meter), exhibited by Sidney Evershed.
19. Lines of induction in a magnetic field represented by stream line flow, exhibited by Henry Selby Hele Shaw and Alfred Hay.
20. Enlarged models of gnats (mosquitoes) and of human blood corpuscles infected by the malaria-parasite, modelled by Miss Delta Emett [Edith Delta Blackman].
21. Two living female Crowned lemurs (Lemus coronatus) each with a young one, exhibited by the Zoological Society of London.
22. Photograph of portion of the Milky Way in Cygnus field 40 degrees side exposure 6 hours, exhibited by Mrs. Annie Scott Dill Maunder.
23. Photographs of bright and dark lightning flashes, exhibited by William James Stewart Lockyer.
24. Drawings of the corona of 28 May 1900 made with the equatorial coude of the Algiers Observatory by William Henry Wesley, exhibited by the Royal Astronomical Society.
25. Photographic and other observations of the total solar eclipse of 28 May 1900, exhibited by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of the Royal and the Royal Astronomical Societies.
26. Reconstructional models built up from microscopic sections of the developing head skeleton of the New Zealand reptile Sphenodon punctatus, exhibited by George Bond Howes and Henry Hurd Swinnerton.
27. Ancient cameos and gems, exhibited by Sir John Evans.
28. Pictures on copper developed in iodine (a) after contact with printer's ink (b) after exposure to hydrogen peroxide, exhibited by William James Russell.
29. Palaeolithic implements from Africa, exhibited by Sir John Evans.
30. The poisonous lotus of Egypt (Lotus arabicus) (a) living plant grown at Kew (b) dried plants from Nubia (c) specimens of the new glucoside Lotusine, and its decomposition products, exhibited by Wyndham Dunstan, Director of the Scientific Department of the Imperial Institute.
31. Aquatic walking-stick insects with eggs (Ranatra linearis), exhibited by Frederick Enock.
Ground Floor (Archives Room):
32. A clock controlled at a distance by wireless telegraphy of the Hertzian wave system, exhibited by Richard Kerr.
33. A new Telantograph, exhibited by Mr. J. G. Craggs.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations with experiments and lantern illustrations will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
34. Life history of the Cicindela campestris - the common Tiger beetle, exhibited by Frederick Enock.
At 10.30 o'clock.
35. Demonstrations with an apparatus for the production of short electric waves and the study of electro-optic phenomena, exhibited by James Ambrose Fleming.
At 11.15 o'clock.
36. Cinematograph photographs of native dances in Torres Straits, exhibited by Alfred Cort Haddon.
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