| 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. Specimens of the hair of chestnut horses, exhibited by Miss Amy Barrington and Karl Pearson.
2. Features of land-ice illustrated by photographs and stereoscopic slides in the Taxiphote, exhibited by John Young Buchanan.
3. Diffraction patterns (antipoints) of point source of light viewed under the microscope with apertures of different shapes illustrating the influence of the aperture shape on microscopic resolution, living bacteria shown on a dark ground with 1/12 oil immersion lens visible by their own reflected light, exhibited by Conrad Beck.
4. Tantalum wave-detector for wireless telephony or telegraphy, new electrolytic signalling key, model of an experimental form of the exhibitor's magnetic detector of 1906, exhibited by Mr. L. H. Walter.
5. An instrument to indicate the relative rate of turning of two bodies, exhibited by Sir John Thornycroft.
6. Models illustrating refraction at plane and spherical surfaces, exhibited by Mr. S. D. Chalmers.
7. Seismograms recorded by a Milne seismograph in the Isle of Wight, exhibited by John Milne.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
8. A manuscript calendar of the 39 guard-books of 'Classified Papers' in the archives of the Royal Society of the period 1660 to 1741, specimens of the manuscript calendar now being prepared of the 125 guard-books of 'Letters and Papers' in the archives of the period 1741 to 1806, a guard-book (no.44) of the later series showing an unpublished letter of Capt. James Cook F.R.S., the circumnavigator dated Rio de Janeiro 30th September 1768, seventeen portrait medals struck at the Paris Mint of foreigners who were members of the Royal Society [Presented for the Society's cabinet], exhibited by Arthur Herbert Church.
9. Specimens of bimetallic parabolic mirrors made by elecro-deposition, specimens of pure electrolytic iron, exhibited by Sherard Osborn Cowper-Coles.
10. A new object-glass for high power magnification, exhibited by John William Gordon and Hugh Fletcher Moulton.
11. Photographs of Lord Kelvin, exhibited by Messrs. T. R. Annan & Sons.
12. Photographs of Lord Kelvin and relating to him, exhibited by John Stewart, Largs.
Room 4 (Council Room):
13. Living representatives of the Plymouth marine fauna, photographs illustrating methods of dredging and trawling (North Sea investigations), exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
14. Cancer as a manifestation of cell-life throughout the vertebrates and the biological properties of cells which have become cancerous, exhibited by Ernest Francis Bashford for the Executive Committee, Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
15. A method of disintegrating bacterial and other cells, exhibited by Richard T. Hewlett and Joseph Edwin Barnard.
16. Mercury vapour lamps for microscopic illumination, exhibited by Joseph Edwin Barnard.
17. The factors which influence the baking value of wheat flour, exhibited by Thomas Barlow Wood.
18. Pictures showing the action of various coals on photographic plates in the dark, exhibited by William James Russell.
19. Megalithic monuments in Japan, exhibited by William Gowland.
20. A method of reproducing pencil and other drawings, exhibited by Donald Cameron-Swan.
21. The saving of Winchester Cathedral and other ancient buildings, exhibited by Francis Fox.
22. Ordoverax copying process, exhibited by Messrs, J. B. Hall & Company Limited.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
23. Enlarged photographs of stellar spectra, spectrum of a sunspot, spectroheliograph disc photographs taken in ''K' light, photographs of prominences taken in 'K' light, photograph of Aberdeenshire Stone Circle with Cornish Circle for comparison, exhibited by the Solar Physics Observatory, South Kensington.
24. Drawings of early compass cards and windroses, exhibited by Silvanus Phillips Thompson.
25. Drawings of ancient zodiacs, exhibited by William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
26. New dark space in helium, exhibited by Francis William Aston.
27. Apparatus for exhibiting photo-electric effects with potassium-sodium alloy, oscillation valves or glow lamp electric wave detectors used for receivers in long-distance wireless telegraphy, a recent form of cymometer or instrument for measuring the length of the waves radiated by and the damping of the oscillations in radio-telegraphic antennae, exhibited by John Ambrose Fleming.
28. Moving-coil vibration galvanometer ((Mr. A. Campbell), variable mutual inductance standard (Mr. A. Campbell), Standard of mutual inductance calculable from the dimensions (Mr. A. Campbell), secondary standard of mutual inductance (Mr. A. Campbell), quenching apparatus for metallographic specimens (Mr. W. [Walter] Rosenhain), composite photomicrographs representing relatively large areas of steel (Mr. W. Rosenhain, Mr. F. C. A. H. [Frederick Charles Alfred Hyatt] Lantsberry and Mr. P. A. Tucker), tensile fractur eof steel under the Zeiss stereoscopic microscope (Mr. W. Rosenhain), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
29. Transparent films of silver and other metals, exhibited by Thomas Turner.
30. Straight line motion, artificial horizon, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
31. Apparatus for generating a luminous glow in an exhausted vessel moving in an electrostatic field and exhibiting the action of a magnetic field on the glow so produced, exhibited by the Rev. Frederick John Jervis-Smith.
32. Hot wire oscillograph, exhibited by Mr. J T Irwin.
33. Apparatus for measuring temperature in the cylinder of a gas engine, exhibited by Hugh Longbourne Callendar and William Ernest Dalby.
34. Specimens illustrating certain aspects of the work of the Grouse Disease Committee 1905-1908, exhibited by the Grouse Disease Commissioners.
35. A uniformly symmetrical twin-elliptic pendulum, exhibited by Joseph Goold.
36. Stereoscopic effects of twin-elliptic figures, exhibited by Charles E. Benham.
37. Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn two transparencies enlarged twice from the original negatives, diagrams of positions of Jupiter's and Saturn's distant satellites from photographs taken at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, with the 30-inch reflector, drawings of the solar corona at the eclipses of 1898, 1900, 1901 and 1905 made by Mr. W. H. [William Henry] Wesley from the original negatives, exhibited by Sir William Henry Mahoney Christie, the Astronomer Royal.
38. An instrument for measuring the colour of the hair, eye and skin, exhibited by John Gray.
39. Protractors for constructing stereographic and gnomonic projections of the sphere, exhibited by Mr. A. Hutchinson.
40. Machine for counting stars upon the 15 in. x 15 in. plates of the Franklin-Adams Chart, machine for drawing precession lines upon the plates of the Franklin-Adams Chart, exhibited by John Franklin-Adams.
41. Apparatus and specimens used in connection with the determination of the atomic weight of radium, glass and quartz vessels coloured under the influence of radium, exhibited by Thomas Edward Thorpe.
42. Scandium, its salts, and its position in the scheme of the chemical elements, exhibited by Sir William Crookes.
43. Apparatus in transparent fused silica, various vessels of pure iridium, exhibited by Messrs. Johnson, Matthey and Company Limited.
44. 'Master Gauges' or 'Standards' for extremely accurate measurements, the invention of Mr. C. E. [Carl Edvard] Johansson of Sweden, exhibited by Mr. H. G. King and Richard Kerr. 45. The Cambridge patent extensometer, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company.
46. Stone implements of very early date from the Zambesi River and some of its tributaries, exhibited by Henry Balfour.
47. The large larch sawfly (Nematus erichsonii Hartig) exhibited by Charles Gordon Hewitt.
48. A series of skiagrams illustrating the development of teeth in man, exhibited by Johnson Symington and John Campbell Rankin.
49. Restored model of the skull and mandible of Prozeugloden atrox, exhibited by Charles William Andrews.
50. Living specimens of Mymaridae-Ovivorous parasites (new to Great Britain), exhibited by Frederick Enock.
51. Bacterial treatment of non-leguminous plants, exhibited by William B. Bottomley.
Ground Floor (Committee Room):
52. Laboratory apparatus for experiments under very high measured pressures and at very high temperature - pressures up to 100 tons per square inch, temperatures up to 2,000 degrees centigrade, exhibited by Richard Threlfall.
53. Experiments with a high frequency alternator, exhibited by Sidney George Brown.
Secretaries' Room:
54. Photographs of stations, complete balon-sonde equipment (Director of the Meteorological Office), photographs of the Howard Estate Station Glossop (J. E. Petavel and W. A. Harwood), pilot balloon and special theodolite (C. J. P. Cave), map showing the results of pilot balloon observations at Sellack (Captain C. H. Ley), photographs and prints of various forms of scientific kites and ballons-sondes, exhibited by Eric S. Bruce, investigations of the upper air of the Nile Valley 1907-8, exhibited by the Director-General of the Survey Department, Egypt, exhibited as the British Contribution to the International Investigation of the Upper Air 1907-8.
55. India-rubber models and apparatus used for the investigation of the distribution of stress in dams, exhibited by John Sigismund Wilson and William Gore.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
56. The dynamics of diabolo, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
At 10.15 o'clock.
57. The saving of Winchester Cathedral and other ancient buildings, exhibited by Francis Fox.
At 10.45 o'clock.
58. The natural history of the house fly, exhibited by Charles Gordon Hewitt.
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