| 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. Lecture room apparatus intended to demonstrate the general phenomena of a dust explosion, and more particularly coal-dust, in explanation of the causes of colliery explosions, exhibited by Thomas Edward Thorpe.
2. Vacuum tubes without electrodes, exhibited by James Thomson Bottomley.
Room 2 (Officers' Room):
3. Series of views in illustration of the geology of the North-west highlands, photographed by Robert Lunn, exhibited by Archibald Geikie, Director-General of the Geological Survey.
4. Natural and artificial musical sands, exhibited by Cecil Carus-Wilson.
5. Apparatus for measuring degrees of incompleteness of colour-vision, exhibited by Robert Brudenell Carter.
6. New map of Persia, Afghanistan and Beluchistan, compiled under the supervision of George Curzon M.P., exhibited by the Royal Geographical Society.
7. Captain Weir's azimuth diagrams, exhibited by J. D. Potter.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
8. Photographs of ancient Central American monuments and buildings from the ruins at Chichen Itza (Yucatan) Palenque (Chiapas) Quirgua (Guatemala) and Copan (Honduras), exhibited by Alfred Percival Maudslay.
9. Koniscope a new instrument for testing the amount of dust in the air, exhibited by John Aitken.
Room 4 (Council Room):
10. A selection of the proof-plates to the first Memoir of the Archaeological Survey of Egypt, exhibited by Percy E Newberry, by permission of the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund.
11. Leyden jars with wire coatings, exhibited by James Wimshurst.
12. Watercolour sketches and photographs illustrating coral reefs and marine fauna of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, models of Queensland fish and pearl induced to grow in mother-of pearl shell (Meleagrina margaritifera) thorugh a process of artificial treatment, exhibited by William Saville-Kent.
13. Projection of interference bands, electric sparks in and to water illustrating lightning effects and multiple flashes, electric retina illustrating the possible meaning of the rod and cone structure, exhibited by Oliver Lodge.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
14. Spectra of Turacin and its derivatives, exhibited by Charles Alexander MacMunn.
15. Electrical apparatus, exhibited by Captain Holden R.A.
16. Experiments with electric currents of high potential and extreme frequency, exhibited by William Crookes.
17. A new optical pyrometer, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
18. An electric chronograph, exhibited by Frederick J. Smith.
19. Finds from Zimbabwe Ruins, Mashonaland, model of circular temple at Zimbabwe, plans of ruins in Mashonaland, exhibited by James Theodore Bent.
20. A new form of Eudiometer, exhibited by William Marcet.
21. High-tension apparatus, exhibited by Messrs. Pyke and Harris.
22. An ordinary miners' safety lamp with supplementary hydrogen-flame, for detecting and measuring minute proportions of fire-damp, or inflammable gas or vapour in the air.
23. Kew testing camera for photographic objectives, exhibited by the Committee of the Kew Observatory.
24. Platinum resistance pyrometers, exhibited by Hugh Longbourne Callendar.
25. Antelope heads from Somaliland, skin and skull of Lion (Felis leo) from Somaliland.
26. Specimens illustrating the occurrence and properties of Turacin, the red pigment (containing 7 per cent of copper) discovered in the wing-feathers of certain plantain-eaters or Touracos, exhibited by Arthur Herbert Church.
27. The photographic spectrum of Nova Aurigae, photographs of stellar spectra, photographs of the new 3-foot reflector at Kensington, objective prism with a refracting angle of 45 degrees for use with a 6-inch objective, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
28. Photographs of the great Sun spot of February 1892, exhibited by the Solar Physics Committee.
29. Celestial photographs, by Isaac Roberts.
30. Two cases of Lepidopterous insects reared in the Insect House in the Regent's Park Gardens in 1891, exhibited by the Zoological Society of London.
31. New and rare fish collected during the Royal Dublin Society's survey of the fishing grounds on the West Coast of Ireland, exhibited by Alfred Cort Haddon and Ernest William Lyons Holt.
32. New Theriodont skulls from Cape Colony, exhibited by Harry Govier Seeley.
33. The original specimen of Asteropecten orion (Forbes) Kellaway's Rock, near Pickering, Yorkshire, and specimen of a slab of mountain limestone from Bolland, illustrating the passage of a foraminiferal ooze into crystalline calcite, exhibited by William Crawford Williamson.
34. Exhibition of living specimens of Branchiura sowerbii, exhibited by Frank Evers Beddard.
35. Specimens and preparations of the new marsupial mammal Notoryctes typhlops Stirling, exhibited by Hans Gadow.
36. Drawings to illustrate the production of pigment on the lower (white) side of a flounder, under the action of light, and the natural occurrence of pigment on the same side in abnormal specimens from the Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association, exhibited by Joseph Thomas Cunningham.
37. A perfect egg of Aepyornis maximus, exhibited by William Clayton Pickersgill, H.M. Vice Consul at Antananarivo.
38. Crystals of active calcium glycerate (laevorotary), exhibited by Percy Faraday Frankland.
39. A remarkable electrolytic formation of copper in the form of wires during the ordinary process of electrolytic refining of copper, exhibited by George Gore.
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.
40. Photographic views illustrating coral reefs and marine fauna of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, exhibited by William Sackville-Kent.
At 10.30 o'clock.
41. Photographs of flying bullets, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
At 11 o'clock.
42. Composite heliochromy a process of colour photography, exhibited by Frederick Eugene Ives (of Philadelphia).
Refreshments on the Ground Floor.
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