| 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. Bar over resonance chamber exhibiting sound interference, exhibited by C. J. Woodward.
2. Watercolour drawings of the scenery of the Karakoram mountains, Kashmir, India, by Arthur David McCormick, exhibited by the Karakoram Mountain Survey Expedition.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
3. Illustration of vortex motion, exhibited by Osborne Reynolds.
4. Maps and photographs illustrating the Sandgate Landslip, exhibited by William Topley and Mr. R. Kerr.
5. Flame spectra of metals at high temperatures, photographs of spectra obtained by vapourising metals in the oxyhydrogen blow-pipe flame, exhibited by Walter Noel Hartley.
6. High frequency electric experiments, exhibited by Alan Alexander Campbell Swinton.
Room 3 (Principal Library):
7. Autotype enlargements from photographs taken by Professor Thorpe illustrative of the recent African Eclipse Expedition, exhibited by Thomas Edward Thorpe.
8. The hydrophone, exhibited by Captain C. A. McEvoy.
9. A reflecting kaleidoscope, exhibited by John Gorham.
10. Apparatus to illustrate Professor [Albert Abraham] Michelson's method of producing interference bands, exhibited by Edwin Edser, Associate, Royal College of Science.
11. Apparatus used for studying the action of the electric discharge on oxygen, exhibited by William Ashwell Shenstone and Martin Priest.
12. Inductoscript, exhibited by Frederick Jervis Smith.
13. Watercolour drawings executed by the artists of the Survey - Percy Buckman, John E. Newberry and Howard Carter - during the past season, 1892-93, exhibited by the Egypt Exploration Fund (Archaeological Survey - Percy Edward Newberry, Officer in Charge).
14. New fossil reptiles from the Elgin sandstone of Morayshire, exhibited by Edwin Tulley Newton of H.M. Geological Survey.
15. High-tension electrical experiments, exhibited by Sir David Salomons and Mr. L. Pyke.
16. Illustrations of the molecular tactics of a crystal, exhibited by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.
17. Marine invertebrata from the Plymouth area, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
18. Specimens of oyster shells, exhibited by George Herbert Fowler.
19. Abnormal and normal form of oyster shells, exhibited by Thomas McKenny Hughes.
20. The photographic spectra of some of the brighter stars, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer, on behalf of the Solar Physics Committee.
21. Photographs taken during the recent Eclipse Expedition to West Africa and Brazil, exhibited by the Joint Eclipse Committee.
22. Submarine borers and specimens of submarine cables damaged by them, exhibited by William Henry Preece.
23. Specimens of Lepidopterous insects bred in the Insect House of the Zoological Society, a series of living Canadian walking-stick insects (Diapheromera femorata) hatched from eggs laid in the Society's Insect House in 1892, living specimens of the Hornet Clearwing Moth of the Osier (Sesia bembiciformis) exhibited by the Zoological Society of London.
24. Some specimens of butterflies, illustrating protective mimicry, exhibited by Colonel Charles Swinhoe.
25. Fossil skulls from the Karoo Rocks of Cape Colony, exhibited by Harry Govier Seeley.
26. Sections showing the microscopic structure of some fossil plants from the coal-measures, exhibited by William Crawford Williamson and Dukinfield Henry Scott.
27. The Corry 'Protected' Aneroid, a new form of aneroid specially designed for use in mountain travel of for aeronauts, exhibited by Edward Whymper.
28. Specimens of electrolytic copper, deposited bright, exhibited by Joseph Wilson Swan.
29. Harmonic analyser constructed by G. Conradi, Zurich, according to instructions by Prof. Henrici and Mr. Sharpe, calculating machine by Prof. Selllinger constructed by Ott, Zurich, exhibited by Olaus Henrici.
30. 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 10.0 o'clock.
31. Photographs of the localities and instruments used during the eclipse of 16 April 1893 in West Africa and Brazil, with photographs showing some of the results obtained, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
At 11.0 o'clock.
32. Photographic lantern slides illustrating the scenery of the Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram Mountains, Kashmir, India, exhibited by William Martin Conway.
At intervals throughout the evening.
33. The lantern stereoscope (invented by John Anderton), exhibited by William Bayley Marshall.
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