| 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. The programme has an ink inscription on the title-page: '6313 25 Copies 12-5-06'.
Room 1 (The Officers' Room):
1. Stereoscopic star charts and spectroscopic key maps, exhibited by Mr. T. E. Heath.
2. Wireless telegraphy apparatus for military field purposes, exhibited by Sir Oliver Lodge and Alexander Muirhead.
3. Model of naval gunsight giving correct elevation for any variations of muzzle velocity, air density, and time of flight, as arranged for the 6-inch B.L. Gun Mark XI under construction at Elswick for trial on H.M.S. 'Africa', exhibited by George Forbes.
4. A torsion spring for transference of energy (exhibited on behalf of Prof. L. R. [Lionel Robert] Wilberforce, of University College, Liverpool), exhibited by Mr. R. Kerr.
5. Vibration experiments, exhibited by Joseph Goold.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
6. Thirteen coloured plates (original) for Part III of the British Annelids, to be published by the Ray Society, 1907, exhibited by William Carmichael McIntosh.
7. Photographs illustrative of the vegetation of the Seychelles Islands, exhibited by John Stanley Gardiner and Mr. H. P. Thomasset.
8. Dredged rocks off Providence Coral Reef, 844 fathoms (H.M.S. 'Sealark'), exhibited by John Stanley Gardiner.
9. Seismographs of recent earthquakes, exhibited by John Milne.
10. Seismograph records, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.
Room 3 (Council Room):
11. The habits of some fishes from the inshore waters, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
12. Some mechanical and electrical phenomena occurring in the telephonic transmission of speech, exhibited by William Duddell.
13. Ultimate microscope resolving power with light of different wave lengths, exhibited by Messrs. R. & J. Beck.
14. Antarctic meteorological records with charts and diagrams prepared in connection with the discussion of the results of the Antarctic Expeditions, some recent meteorological results, exhibited by William Napier Shaw, the Director, Meteorological Office.
15. Oxygen rescue apparatus and other appliances, exhibited by Messrs. Wallach Brothers.
16. Photographs of electrical discharges at atmospheric pressure and in vacuo, exhibited by Kenneth J. Tarrant.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
17. Geological maps recently issued by the Geological Survey and Museum, exhibited by Jethro Justinian Harris Teall, the Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.
18. Specimens of colour photographs and photomicrographic, exhibited by Edwin Edser and Edgar Senior.
19. A gas calorimeter, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
20. Metallic jacketed vacuum vessels, exhibited by Sir James Dewar.
21. A triple alloy of tin-antimony-arsenic polished and etched showing bright curved crystals embedded in a soft wax matrix or eutectic, exhibited by John Edward Stead.
22. Improved metallurgical microscope, exhibited by Walter Rosenhain.
23. Photographs of certain arc spectra, exhibited by Archibald Campbell, 1st Baron Blythswood.
24. A series of Picrates, exhibited by Oswald Silberrrad and Henry Ablett Phillips.
25. Production of achromatic interference bands by the double grating method, photographs chiefly of diatoms taken by Dr. A. Kohler with the Zeiss apparatus for ultra-violet light, exhibited by Julius Rheinberg.
26. New magnetic detector giving both alternating currents for telephonic reception and continuous currents for recording or visual signals, exhibited by Louis Heathcote Walter.
27. Binocular spectroscope, exhibited by William Marshall Watts.
28. The ultra-violet spectra of the metals photographed with a quartz train of five double prisms the spectrum of pure iron used as a standard, stereoscopic photographs taken by Sir W. Crookes on the occasion of the visit of the British Association to South Africa in the autumn of 1905, exhibited by Sir William Crookes.
29. Berlese's apparatus for capturing minute insects and arachnids, exhibited by Cecil Warburton.
30. Photographs of the solar corona 30 August 1905, exhibited by the Rev. Aloysius Laurence Cortie.
31. Photographs illustrating the Eclipse Camp at Palma, Majorca, examples of stellar spectra, some photographs taken with the spectro-heliograph, curves to illustrate long period barometric changes in operation in India, East Indies, Australia and South America, photographs and diagrams illustrating recent work done on the orientation of some British stone circles, exhibited by the Solar Physics Observatory, South Kensington.
32. Six photographs of the Milky Way taken in 1905 by Professor Edward Emerson Barnard at Mount Wilson, California.
33. Photographic prints of the total solar eclipse of 30 August 1905 from negatives taken at Sfax, Tunisia, exhibited by Sir William Henry Mahoney Christie, the Astronomer Royal. 34. A refractometer for liquids, exhibited by George Frederick Herbert-Smith.
35. Entoptiscope for the self-examination of obscurities and defects within the eye, exhibited by William Fletcher Barrett.
36. Specimens illustrating the indifference of oxygen towards iron in the presence of water and the effect of the admission of carbonic acid, exhibited by Dr. G. T. Moody.
37. Micro-daguerreotypes of blood, milk and crystals, made by Leon Foucault in 1844, exhibited by the Royal Microscopical Society.
38. Hind limbs of the gigantic extinct marsupial Diprotodon australis from Lake Callabonna, South Australia, exhibited by Arthur Smith Woodward.
39. Recent researches in cell-division, exhibited by John Edmund Sharrock Moore and Charles Edward Walker.
40. Series of stereoscopic photographs of the membranous labyrinth illustrating the comparative anatomy of the organ, exhibited by Albert Alexander Gray.
41. Yolk-nucleus in the Oocyte of Antedon, exhibited by Gilbert C. Chubb.
42. New or rare minerals from Ceylon, minerals from Canada, cyanogenetic plants, exhibited by Wyndham Dunstan.
43. Precocious flowering of plants (exhibited by William Botting Hemsley), exalbuminous grass-seeds (exhibited by Olf Stapf), exhibited by Sir David Prain, the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
44. Late glacial and post glacial plant remains from the Scottish peat deposits and from Cross Fell, exhibited by Mr. F. J. Lewis.
Ground Floor (Committee Room):
45. An electrical measuring machine, exhibited by Philip E. Shaw.
46. A new electric heater, exhibited by Edward George Rivers.
Secretaries' Room:
47. Photographs of the polished and etched surface of specimens of iron and steel taken during the progress of alternating stress tests, photomicrographs, an apparatus for tests on the strength of materials at very high temperatures, Picou Permeameter (by kind permission of Mr. J. H. [James Harold] Agar Baugh) bifilar galvanometer free from zero creep, exhibited by Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook, the Director of the National Physical Laboratory.
Meeting Room;
The following demonstrations by means of the electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
48. The Batoka Gorge of the Zambesi River, exhibited by George William Lamplugh.
At 10.45 o'clock.
49. Electric production of nitrates from the atmosphere, exhibited by Silvanus Phillips Thompson.
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