| 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 (Officer's Room):
1. Experiments on the extinction of light and colour, exhibited by William de Wiveleslie Abney.
Room 2 (The Office):
2. Drawing curves by their curvature, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
3. New fossil reptiles from the Elgin sandstones of Morayshire, exhibited by Edwin Tulley Newton.
4. A recording pyrometer, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
5. Photographs of Swedish turnip plants (natural size) grown in rotation, without manure, with mineral alone, and with mineral and nitrogenous manure together, with photographs of Rothamsted Laboratory, Sample House, plots in Barn Fields, Hoos Field, Agdell Field and the Park, exhibited by Sir John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert.
Room 4 (Council Room):
6. Three instruments for the study of crystals, exhibited by Henry Alexander Miers.
7. Maps showing the true lines of equal declination, equal horizontal force, and equal dip in the United Kingdom for the epoch 1 January 1891, exhibited by Arthur William Rucker and Thomas Edward Thorpe.
8. High frequency electrical experiments, exhibited by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
9. Sodium-Potassium high temperature thermometers and specimens of the alloy, exhibited by Edward Charles Cyril Baly and J. C. Chorley.
10. The Scotographoscope for enabling lecturers to demonstrate with chalks in a darkened room, exhibited by Cecil Carus-Wilson.
11. Magnetic curve tracers, exhibited by James Alfred Ewing.
12. Experiments to demonstrate the structure of flames, exhibited by Arthur Smithells.
13. Inductoscript, exhibited by Rev. Frederick Jervis Smith.
14. Platinum thermometers and pyrometers, compensated resistance boxes and galvanometers, compensated barometer and air thermometer, exhibited by Hugh Longbourne Callendar.
15. A series of sections illustrating the seasonal distribution of temperature in sea-water lochs, exhibited by Hugh Robert Mill.
16. Portable hydrogen-oil safety lamp, adapted for illumination and delicate testing in air containing any kind of inflammable gas or vapour, exhibited by Frank Clowes.
17. One of a pair of tuning forks worked electrically, a portable photometer, a table polariscope, exhibited by Sir David Salomons.
18. High tension apparatus, exhibited by Sir David Salomons and Mr. L. Pyke.
19. Electrical apparatus, exhibited by Major Holden R.A.
20. Marine invertebrata from the Plymouth area, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
21. Specimens of oyster shells, exhibited by George Herbert Fowler.
22. Diagrams showing the frequency of variations in the size of certain organs of crabs, exhibited by Raphael Weldon.
23. Spectra of flame from a Bessemer converter, exhibited by Walter Noel Hartley.
24. The photographic spectra of some of the brighter stars, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
25. Five original negatives and enlarged photographs of nebulae and clusters of stars, taken with the 20-inch reflector, exhibited by Isaac Roberts.
26. Some species of butterflies illustrating protective mimicry, exhibited by Colonel Charles Swinhoe.
27. Specimens of Lepidopterous insects bred in the Insect House of the Zoological Society, exhibited by the Zoological Society of London.
28. Remains of extinct birds from New Zealand and the Chatham Islands (off the coast of New Zealand), exhibited by Henry Ogg Forbes.
29. Some ants and their sound-producing organs, exhibited by David Sharp.
30. Sections showing the microscopic structure of certain fossil Cryptogamic plants from the coal-measures, exhibited by William Crawford Williamson and Dukinfield Henry Scott.
31. White corpuscles of the blood and lymph under the microscope, exhibited by William Bate Hardy and Alfredo Antunes Kanthack.
32. Maps and photographs illustrating the Sandgate Landslip, exhibited by William Topley and Mr. R. Kerr.
33. Form in which antimony separates from bismuth at a temperature of 350 degrees centigrade, exhibited by Edward Matthey.
34. Two compact voltaic batteries of zinc and platinum, exhibited by George Gore.
35. Permutational tessellations, exhibited by Percy Alexander MacMahon.
Ground Floor (Meeting Room)
The following exhibits with demonstrations by means of the electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 9.30 o'clock.
Photo-micrographic lantern slides illustrating the micro-organisms in limestone rocks. The slides especially illustrate the remarkable structure known as Girvanella, exhibited by Edward Wethered.
At 10.0 o'clock.
Experiments to show the nature of the electric discharge in air and water, exhibited by William George Armstrong, Lord Armstrong.
At 11.0 o'clock
Preparations and photographs demonstrating the action of solar and electric light on the spores of bacteria and fungi, exhibited by Harry Marshall Ward.
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