| 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 specific times during the evening.
Room 1 (Officers' Room):
1. Apparatus for micro-photography, exhibited by Charles Hunter Stewart and Henry Cunnynghame.
2. Experiments in persistence of vision, exhibited by Eric S. Bruce.
Room 2 (The Office):
3. Antiquities and anthropological objects from the Hadramoot, Southern Arabia, exhibited by James Theodore Bent.
4. Two models of the South Lodge Camp, Rushmore Park, Wiltshire, an entrenchment of the Bronze Age, before and after excavation with the relics therefrom, two models of the Handley Hill entrenchment before and after excavation on the same scale as the South Lodge Camp with the relics therefrom, exhibited by Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers.
5. New dicynodont reptiles from South Africa, exhibited by Harry Giver Seeley.
6. Ovate palaeolithic implement and two molar teeth of Rhinoceros tichorhinus, found in brick-earth at St. John's Road, Radnor Park, Folkestone in August 1893, exhibited by Richard Kerr.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
7. Early specimens of partly soluble 'Cotton Xyloidon' and of Austriam gun-cotton for military purposes, exhibited by John Hall Gladstone.
Room 4 (Council Room):
8. Some maps and plans which accompany the Report on Nile Reservoirs, recently published by the Egyptian Government, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
9. Models showing an improved method of communication between shore stations and light-ships or other like purposes, exhibited by James Wimshurst.
10. Electrically heated alter and electrically heated soldering bits for soldering and brazing, exhibited by Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton.
11. New phenomena in vacuum tubes (alternate current), exhibited by Sir David Salomons.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
12. Absolute and relative viscometers, exhibited by Owen Glynne Jones.
13. An ink-recording pyrometer consisting of a thermo-junction of platinum and platinum iridium attached to a dead-beat galvanometer, a series of pyrometric curves obtained by photographic recorders in different iron works and showing the temperature of the hot blast used in smelting iron, exhibited by William Chandler Roberts-Austen.
14. An instrument of precision for producing monochromatic light of any desired wavelength, an instrument for grinding section-plates and prisms of crystals of artificial preparations accurately in the desired directions, exhibited by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton.
15. Crystals of ice (hexagonal hopper) and photographs, exhibited by Karl Grossmann and Mr. J. Lomas.
16. Specimens of obsidian from Iceland, exhibited by Karl Grossmann.
17. Twin-elliptical pendulum and pendulum figures, exhibited by Joseph Goold.
18. Glass model showing a method for transmitting force by spheres or discs, exhibited by Killingworth Hedges.
19. Electric furnace and specimens of chemical elements obtained by means of it - vanadium, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, uranium, exhibited by Henri Moissan, l'Ecole Superieure de Pharmacie, Paris, through Wyndham Rowland Dunstan.
20. A new harmonic analyser, exhibited by Olaus Henrici.
21. Callendar and Griffiths' long distance direct-reading electrical thermometers and pryometers, exhibited by Ernest Howard Griffiths.
22. A torsional ergometer or work measuring machine used in connection with a mechanical integrator and as an electrical governor, exhibited by Frederick Jervis Smith.
23. Magnetarium for reproducing the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism and the secular changes in its horizontal and vertical components, exhibited by Henry Wilde.
24. Illustrations of polyphase electric currents, exhibited by Sylvanus Phillips Thompson.
25. Living pelagic larvae &c., from Plymouth, examples of Echinoderm fauna of Plymouth, hybrid between Brill and Turbot, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
26. A mechanical pump for the rapid production of very high vacua and vacuum tubes exhausted by it, exhibited by Henry Albert Fleuss.
27. Charts and sections showing the temperature of the water in the northern and western parts of the North Sea and the Faroe-Shetland Channel at all depths, August 1893, exhibited by Henry Newton Dickson.
28. Bathymetrical maps of the English Lakes, exhibited by Hugh Robert Mill and Edward Heawood.
29. Photographs of stellar spectra taken with a 6-inch objective prism of 45 degrees, photographs of the great Sun spot of February 1894, taken at Dehra Dun, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
30. Living larvae influenced by the colours of their surroundings, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
31. Microscopic slides illustrating the behaviour of the nucleus during spore formation in the Hepaticae, exhibited by John Bretland Farmer.
32. Photographs of diffraction and allied phenomena, exhibited by William Bleaden Croft.
33. Chemiotaxis and inflammation, exhibited by William Bate Hardy and Alfredo Autunes Kanthack.
34. Apparatus employed for observing and measuring the growth of bacteria, fungi, and other micro-organisms under different conditions under the microscope, exhibited by Harry Marshall Ward.
35. Demonstration of the trails of Oscillatoriae, exhibited by Mr. J. G. Grenfell.
36. Microscopic specimens illustrative of the process of secretion in the skin of the Eel, exhibited by Edward Waymouth Reid.
37. Eggs and young of Ceratodus forsteri, a male of Lepidosiren paradoxa, exhibited by George Bond Howes.
38. Nerve elements from the ganglia of lobster embryos, exhibited by Edgar Johnson Allen.
39. A collection of white ants (Termitidae), exhibited by David Sharp.
40. A specimen and drawing of the South American Mud-fish Lepidosiren paradoxa, exhibited by Edwin Ray Lankester.
Ground Floor (Secretaries' Room):
41. The vibromotor, the automatic balance of reciprocating machinery by mechanical reaction, and the prevention of vibration, exhibited by William Worby Beaumont.
42. The Pittler lathe, exhibited by Wilhelm von Pittler.
43. A new form of Lord Kelvin's siphon recorder, Muirhead's artificial cable, Muirhead's automatic curb transmitter, exhibited by Alexander Muirhead.
(Meeting Room):
The following exhibits with demonstrations by means of electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
44. The magic mirror, exhibited by Mr. J. W. Kearton.
At 10.15 o'clock.
45. Photographs from sections in Dr. W. C. Wiliamson's collection, illustrating the microscopic structure of fossil plants from the coal-measures, exhibited by Dukinfield Henry Scott.
At 11.0 o'clock.
Illustrations of recent work upon the influence of environment on the colours of certain Lepidopterous larvae, exhibited by Edward Bagnell Poulton.
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