| 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 (The Office):
1. Bronze medallion cast in Berlin in honour of Prof. Rudolph Virchow For. Mem. R.S., bronze copies of medals awarded by the Royal Society, exhibiuted by the Royal Society.
2. Instrument for drawing parabolas, exhibited by Richard Inwards.
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. Photographs of clouds taken at Specola Vaticana, Rome, under the direction of the late Rev. Padre [Francesco] Denza, exhibited by the British Association Committee on the Application of Photography to Meteorology.
5. Mammoth remains from Endsleigh Street N.W., exhibited by Henry Hicks.
6. Skeleton of a new Theriodont reptile (Cynognathus crateronotus), skeleton of Procolophon from Donnybrook, Queenstown District, Cape Colony, exhibited by Harry Govier Seeley.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
7. 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.
8. Watercolour drawings of Greek temples, &c., at Athens, as they appeared in 1847, illustrative of current investigations on the orientation of ancient Greek temples, exhibited by Francis Cranmer Penrose.
Room 3 (Council Room):
9. Watercolour sketches showing typical examples of damage to plants caused by London fog, exhibited by Francis Wall Oliver.
10. Two series of enlarged photographs of Leguminous plants (half natural size) of peas as an annual and Sainfoin as a plant of longer life, grown at Rothamsted in 1890-91 in experiments on the question of the fixation of free nitrogen, stencilled table showing the number of nodules on the roots and the amount of nitrogen in them, exhibited by Sir John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert.
11. Systematic and simple construction of the dark absorption bands A, B, and a n the Solar spectrum after Mr. Higgs' photographs, exhibited by Alexander Stewart Herschel.
12. Photographs of electrical discharges, exhibited by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton.
13. The flame of burning nitrogen, the electric arc between two glass rods, experiments with electric currents of high potential and extreme frequency, exhibited by William Crookes.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
14. Enlarged photographs of the lake, mountain and forest scenery of the island of Grenada, taken while investigating the Cryptogamic flora of the island for the West India Exploration Committee.
15. Cardew earthing device of latest pattern for cutting off supply if a dangerous voltage is established in a house from any cause, Cardew leakage indicator for high tension circuits wit apparatus for approximating the insulation of outside mains while in use, exhibited by Messrs. Drake and Gorham.
16. Germination of the Double Cocoa-nut (Lodoicea seycellarum), exhibited by William Turner Thiselton Dyer, Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew.
17. Electrical discharges over prepared surfaces, exhibited by James Wimshurst.
18. Living rats and rabbits showing some results of experimental breeding with reference to theories of heredity, exhibited by George John Romanes.
19. Finds from Zimbabwe Ruins, Mashonaland, model of circular temple at Zimbabwe, plans of ruins in Mashonaland, exhibited by James Theodore Bent.
20. Ethnological series from Guinea, exhibited by Everard Ferdinand im Thurn.
21. High-tension electrical apparatus, exhibited by Mr. L. Pyke.
22. Instrument for measuring the thermal expansion of very minute solid bodies up to very high temperatures and tracing the volume-change of silicates up to, and over, the interval of plasticity, exhibited by John Joly.
23. Examples of food fishes, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
24. A collection of articles in aluminium by various makers to show the applicability of the metal to the construction of scientific instruments, &c., exhibited by the Phoenix Engineering Company.
25. Photographs of stellar spectra, series of eleven photographs of the eclipsed Moon 11 May 1892 taken with a 30-inch reflector at Westgate-on-Sea by Mr. W. J. Lockyer, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
26. Living specimen of a remarkable non-venomous South African snake (dasypletis scabra), exhibited by the Zoological Society of London.
27. plachnidium rugosum Grev., the type of a new order of algae, exhibited by George Murray on behalf of Miss Margaret O. Mitchell and Miss Frances G. Whitting.
28. Microscopical preparations of various botanical objects especially fungi, causing diseases and injuries in plants, exhibited by Herbert Marshall Ward.
29. A series of thirty-eight pictures and five colour matches executed by colour blind persons, exhibited by Frederick William Edridge-Green.
30. 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.
31. Three cases of African, Indo-Malayan, and American Lepidoptera, showing examples of mimicry of species specially protected by offensive odours &c., by others not so specially protected, case containing examples of mimicry between specially protected species of Lepidoptera, examples of commensal and symbiotic organisms, exhibited by Charles Stewart.
32. A series of enlarged transparent sections of some of the fossil plants of the coal measures, exhibited by William Crawford Wiliamson.
33. 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.
34. Facsimile drawings from the pavement of the Palace of Chuenaten at Tell el Amerna (1400 B.C.), exhibited by William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
35. An album of ancient textiles from Panopolis, exhibited by Sir John Evans.
36. Peruvian Mummy eyes from the tombs at the Temple of the Sun near Arica, Peru, specimens of the hardened crystalline lenses of cuttlefish, with their detached layers, as found in the sand of the coasts of Chile, denoting the probable source of the artificial eyes of the mummies, exhibited by George Harley.
37. 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) through a process of artificial treatment, collection of Australian oysters chiefly from the Queensland coast and apparatus for the artificial cultivation of the more important commercial species, exhibited by William Saville-Kent.
Ground Floor (Archives Room):
Telephonic communication with Paris, exhibited by the Postmaster-General.
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.
Photographic views illustrating coral reefs and marine fauna of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, exhibited by William Saville-Kent.
At 10.10 o'clock.
Photo-micrographs illustrating the modes in which scales have disappeared from the transparent wings of certain moths, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
At 10.30 o'clock.
Recent celestial photographs, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
At 11.0 o'clock.
Photographs of flying bullets, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
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