| 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 (The Office):
1. Records of recent earthquakes, exhibited by John Milne.
2. Cable broken by the Jamaica earthquake of 14 January 1907, exhibited by Rev. Robert Ashington Bullen.
Room 2 (Officers' Room):
3. Relay working of long submarine telegraphy cables, exhibited by Sidney George Brown.
4. Recently discovered sub-fossil primates from Madagascar, exhibited by Herbert Fox Standing.
5. Mandible of Tetrabelodon from the Loup Fork Formation (Lower Pliocene) Nebraska U.S.A., exhibited by Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, the Director, British Museum (Natural History).
6. Crystallised granite, musical flint nodule, exhibited by Charles Carus-Wilson.
7. Improved liquid compass, exhibited by Commander Louis Wentworth Pakington Chetwynd.
8. Detached gravity escapement, exhibited by Henry Hardinge Cunynghame.
9. Instrument for recording by photography rapid changes in pressure in the air, such for example as are caused by the wave produced by an explosion, exhibited by Henry Reginald Arnuph Mallock.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
10. History pictures of Egypt, exhibited by Sir Benjamin Stone.
11. Hybrids of wheat and barley, exhibited by Rowland Harry Biffen.
12. Skull of a South African Saurischian (Erythrosuchus africanus), exhibited by Harry Govier Seeley.
Room 4 (Council Room):
13. Working models illustrating the balancing of a two-cylinder gas engine and a locomotive, exhibited by William Ernest Dalby.
14. Lecture table testing machine, exhibited by Professor A. G. Ashcroft.
15. Crompton's measuring machine combining accuracy with rapidity in working, exhibited by Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton.
16. Copper mirrors obtained by the deposition of metallic copper upon glass, exhibited by Frederick Daniel Chattaway.
17. British Association album, meeting in South Africa, 1905, exhibited by John Perry.
18. Model of the neighbourhood of the Winter quarters of the National Antarctic ship ''Discovery' 1902-1904, exhibited by the Director of the Meteorological Office.
19. Cloud studies, exhibited by Dr. Lockyer.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
20. Steller spectrograms, spectroheliograms, recent photographs of British stone circles, etc., in Cornwall, exhibited by the Solar Physics Observatory, South Kensington.
21. The Crookes radiometer, motion arrested in very high vacua, exhibited by Sir James Dewar.
22. Persistent electric oscillations, exhibited by William Duddell.
23. Marine algae and their reproduction, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
24. Metamorphosis of the eel, specimens of cephalodiscus, coloured cast of the tile-fish, specimen of the okapi, exhibited by Edwin Ray Lankester, Director of the Natural History Departments of the British Museum.
25. Igneous and metamorphic rocks of northern Nigeria, tinstone from Bauchi, northern Nigeria and tin smelted from it, new of exceptional minerals from Ceylon, new vegetable products of hitherto unknown composition, exhibited by the Director of the Imperial Institute.
26. The action of radium and other salts on gelatine culture medium, exhibited by William Arthur Douglas Rudge.
27. New diffraction wave-length spectroscope, the 'Isostigmar' photographic lens on optical testing bench, exhibited by Messrs. R. & J. Beck, Limited.
28. A new visual method of measuring the speeds of photographic shutters, exhibited by Abram Kershaw.
29. The flame tube, demonstration of the theory of microscopic images, an indirect method of measuring the temperature of liquid-air baths, a short glycerine barometer, exhibited by Ulrich Behn.
30. Experiments with vacuum gold leaf electroscopes on the mechanical temperature effects in rarefied gases, exhibited by James Thomson Bottomley and Mr. F. A. King.
31. A special camera for the purpose of automatically recording the readings of the scale of any instrument, exhibited by Dr. J. R. Milne.
32. A helio-chronometer, exhibited by Messrs. Pilkington and Gibbs Limited.
33. A cordoned bucket or cist of bronze 'Halstatt' type, early Iron Age of Europe. Late Bronze Age of Britain, circa 700 B.C., found at Weybridge, Surrey, April 1907 at a depth of 10 feet in sinking a shaft for the pier of a bridge close to the river at the new motor track [the 'Brooklands Bucket'], exhibited by Mr. W, Dale.
34. Arrow heads and spear points from North America, Egypt and Japan, exhibited by Rowland G Hazard.
35. Photographs of microscopic diamonds obtained from pure iron heated in a carbon crucible in an electric furnace and rapidly cooled, scale 150 diameters, exhibited by Charles Algernon Parsons.
36. Seasonal dimorphism in butterflies, exhibited by Frederick Augustus Dixey.
37. The female forms of the African Papilo Dardanus, the most remarkable example of mimicry hitherto discovered, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
38. Pupa of Binsitta barrow Bingham, with photograph of moth and pupa and a coloured drawing of the head of a tree-snake (Lycodon aulicus Linn.), exhibited by Colonel Charles Thomas Bingham.
39. Ovivorous parasitic hymenoptera (Mymaridae), exhibited by Frederick Enock.
40. Selected specimens from the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, exhibited by Charles Stewart.
41. The inhabitants of British ants' nests, exhibited by Horace St. John Donisthorpe.
42. Microscopic preparations illustrating the development of the plate-and-anchor spicules from the soft tissue of Synapta inhaerens and S. digitate, exhibited by Mr. W. Woodland.
43. Microscopic preparations of Spirochaeta (Trypanosoma) balbianii from the crystalline style and intestine of the oyster, exhibited by Harold Benjamin Fantham.
44. Fixation of nitrogen by leguminous and other plants, exhibited by William B. Bottomley.
45. The succession of plant remains in British peat mosses, exhibited by Francis John Lewis.
46. The 'pineal eye' in the New Zealand lamprey (Geotria) and in the Tuatara (Sphenodon), Reissner's fibre in the brain and spinal cord of Geotria, exhibited by Arthur Dendy.
47. Examples of the skins of domestic cats, exhibited by Reginald Innes Pocock.
48. Welwitschia mirabilis Hook f. (Gnetaceae) south-west Tropical Africa, Acanthosicyos horrida (Welw. (Cucurbitaceae) western Tropical Africa, Labrador lichens, figures of remarkable new or rare plants (exhibited by William Botting Hemsley), figures of African terrestrial Utriculariae (exhibited by Otto Stapf), exhibited by Sir David Prain, the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Ground Floor (Committee Room):
49. Prof. Fery''s self-contained radiation pyrometer, universal portable electrometer designed by Mr. C. T. R. [[Charles Thomson Rees] Wilson, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company.
50. Vibration experiments, exhibited by Joseph Goold.
Secretaries' Room:
51. Working models illustrating the action of the Schlick gyroscope in steadying ships at sea, exhibited by Otto Schlick and Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Limited.
52. Skiagraphy of the human subject, examples illustrating the advantages of reduction in exposure, exhibited by Robert Knox and Mr. G. Pearce.
53. Apparatus of malleable iridium and rhodium, apparatus of pure transparent fused silica, exhibited by Messrs. Johnson, Matthey and Company.
54. Pure fused silica ware, exhibited by the Thermal Syndicate Limited, Wallsend-on-Tyne.
Meeting Room;
The following demonstrations will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
55. Working model of the Brennan mono-railway, exhibited by Louis Brennan.
At 10.15 o'clock.
56. Cinematograph exhibition of native dances taken during the course of the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea, exhibited by Charles Gabriel Seligmann.
At 10.40 o'clock.
57. Aerial gliding, exhibited by Henry Selby Hele Shaw.
At 11.15 o'clock.
58. Second demonstration, exhibited by Louis Brennnan.
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