| 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 a lantern slide demonstrations taking place at a specific times during the evening.
Room 1 (The Office):
1. Iron tools and utensils of the Roman period found together in a pit in the Romano-British city at Silchester, Hampshire in September 1890, bronze objects of the Roman period found at Silchester, exhibited by the Executive Committee of the Silchester Excavation Fund (by permission of the Duke of Wellington).
2. A certificate of election of John Thorpe, M.D., as F.R.S., dated 30th Nov. 1705 with autograph of Sir Isaac Newton and appendent seal of the Royal Society, exhibited by the Society of Antiquaries.
3. Electrical influence apparatus and an electrical motor, exhibited by John Wimshurst.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
Room 3 (Council Room):
4. Finger prints as a means of identification, exhibited by Francis Galton.
5. Varieties in form of the human ear, exhibited by William Friese-Greene.
6. Registration of colours in numbers and apparatus to show the greater sensitiveness of the eye to different colours, exhibited by Willian de Wiveleslie Abney and Edward Robert Festing.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
7. An optical illusion, exhibited by Sylvanus Phillips Thompson.
8. An indicator for engines correct at the highest speeds, an electrical supply meter, a simple method of destroying electric sparking, specimen of a variable Secohm standard, twisted strip electrical measuring instruments, exhibited by John Perry.
9. Discharge without electrodes through gases, exhibited by Joseph John Thomson.
10. A nickel pendulum illustrating the effect of heat upon the magnetic susceptibility of nickel, exhibited by Shelford Bidwell.
11. The Meldometer, exhibited by John Joly.
12. Facsimile drawings of paintings from tombs at Beni Hasan, Upper Egypt, exhibited by Percy Edward Newberry (of the Egyptian Exploration Fund).
13. Instrument for examining the strains in bent glass beams, exhibited by Charles Ashley Carus-Wilson.
14. A small cathometer made for Prof. [Thomas Edward] Thorpe F.R.S. Royal College of Science, South Kensington, kymascope designed by Prof. Anderson Stuart, Helmholtz's eye-muscle model modified by Prof. Anderson Stuart, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company.
15. Cup-micrometer, an instrument for measuring the rate of growth of a plant, exhibited by Francis Darwin.
16. Phosphorescence of precious stones, and electrical volatilization of metals, exhibited by William Crookes.
17. Living animals from the Aquarium of the Marine Biological Association of Plymouth, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
18. Art metal work from the factories of Messrs Tiffany and Company, New York, exhibited by Messrs. Tiffany & Company.
19. Photographs of living corals taken in the Torres Straits, exhibited by William Savile Kent.
20. Photographs of a group of Sun-spots, album of solar metallic comparison photographs, photographs of the temples at Karnak and Edfou, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
21. Photographs of stellar spectra, taken at Potsdam, exhibited by David Gill.
22. A new brilliantly coloured alloy of gold and aluminium, facsimiles of medals asserted to be made of gold and of silver, transmuted from base metal by the aid of alchemy, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
23. Nickel-carbon-oxide, pure nickel extracted from nickel ores by means of carbonic acid, articles of pure nickel deposited from nickel-carbon-oxide, goods plated with nickel by exposure to nickel-carbon-oxide, exhibited by Ludwig Mond.
24. Set of standard Troy weights, quaintly ornamented, used in the Royal Mint in the Tower of London bearing the date 1588, set of standard Troy weights prepared while Sir Isaac Newton was Master of the Mint and dated 1707, exhibited by Charles William Fremantle.
25. Specimens of Japanese metal work, including Ojime or sliders, Yanone or arrowheads and Tsuba or sword-guards, exhibited by Arthur Herbert Church.
26. Professor [Seikei] Sekiya's model of the Japanese earthquake, exhibited by James Alfred Ewing.
27. Drawings, the first received in Europe, of Notorcytes typhlops, a new form of marsupial of mole-like habit and structure accordingly, sent by Prof. [Edward Charles] Stirling M.D., of the University of Adelaide, South Australia, exhibited by Alfred Newton.
28. Demonstrations of certain important phenomena associated with the absorption and the flow of the water taken up by plants.
29. Engravings to 'Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator', exhibited by Edward Whymper.
30. Models of double supernumerary legs and antennae in beetles, mechanical model showing the unusual symmetry of double supernumerary appendages in beetles, exhibited by William Bateson.
31. The geographical distribution and the progressive and retrogressive evolution of art and ornament in British New Guinea, exhibited by Alfred Cort Haddon.
Ground Floor (Archives Room):
At intervals during the evening, on the Edison loud-speaking telephone and Bell's receivers, performance of 'The Gondoliers' at the Savoy Theatre, London (by kind permission of Mr. Richard D'Oyly Carte) and at the Prince's Theatre, Birmingham. Also vocal and instrumental music at Liverpool and Birmingham, exhibited by the National Telephone Company.
Ground Floor (Meeting Room):
The following exhibits with demonstrations by means of the electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
Meteorological photographs, exhibited by Arthur William Clayden.
At 10.30 o'clock.
Photographs of volcanic phenomena, exhibited by Tempest Anderson.
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