| 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. Photographs of Lord Kelvin and relating to him, exhibited by John Stewart, Largs.
2. Drawings of ancient zodiacs, exhibited by William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
3. Drawings of early compass cards and windroses, collection of early compass cards from about 1640 to 1850 including examples by Hilkiah Bedford, John Sellers, Nathaniel Witham and other makers, exhibited by Silvanus Phillips Thompson.
Room 2 (Officers' Room):
4. Self-contained diving dress, life-saving apparatus for use in mines (made by Messrs. Siebe, Gorman & Company Limited), exhibited by Leonard Hill.
5. Features of land-ice illustrated by photographs and stereoscopic slides in the Taxiphote, exhibited by John Young Buchanan.
6. An instrument to indicate the relative rate of turning of two bodies, exhibited by Sir John Thornycroft.
6a. 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.
7. Recent instantaneous photographs of splashes, exhibited by Arthur Mason Worthington.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
8. Bushmen photographs copied by the exhibitor from the caves and rocks in Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, and Basutoland, exhibited by Miss M. Helen Tongue.
Room 4 (Council Room):
9. Living representatives of the Plymouth marine fauna, photographs illustrating methods of dredging and trawling (North Sea investigations), exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
10. Mercury vapour lamps for microscopic illumination, exhibited by Joseph Edwin Barnard.
11. The saving of Winchester Cathedral and other ancient buildings, exhibited by Francis Fox.
12. Megalithic monuments in Japan, exhibited by William Gowland.
13. Plans, photographs and objects illustrating the archaeological survey of that portion of the Nile Valley which will be submerged b y the Aswan Reservoir when its level is raised, exhibited by the Director-General, Survey Department, Egypt.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
14. Astrophysical photographs taken at Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, Pasadena, California, exhibited by George Ellery Hale and Ferdinand Ellerman.
15. Hot wire oscillograph, exhibited by Mr. J T Irwin.
16. Apparatus in transparent fused silica, exhibited by Messrs. Johnson, Matthey and Company Limited.
17. Quenching apparatus for metallographic specimens, tensile fracture of steel under the Zeiss stereoscopic microscope (Mr W. [Walter] Rosenhain), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
18. Straight line motion, artificial horizon, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
19. Seismograms recorded by a Milne seismograph in the Isle of Wight, the first large earthquake recorded on a seismograph in London, 16th October 1907, exhibited by John Milne.
20. Transmission of signals by electromagnetic induction between oscillatory circuits and their reception by means of a glow-lamp detector, exhibited by John Ambrose Fleming.
21. Photographs, drawings and plans exhibiting the apparatus employed by Prof. Gamgee in his research 'On methods for the continuous (photographic) and quasi-continuous registration of the diurnal curve of temperature of the animal body', exhibited by Arthur Gamgee.
22. A series of stereoscopic radiographs of molluscal shells, exhibited by George H. Rodman.
23. The residual motion of water moving in stationary waves, exhibited by Mrs. Hertha Ayrton.
24. Zeotropic apparatus exhibiting the progress of a travelling storm-centre and the circulation of air associated therewith, exhibited by the Director of the Meteorological Office.
25. Specimens of parabolic and flat mirrors made by electrodeposition and coated with palladium, chromium and other metals, specimens of electrolytic copper showing the crystalline structure and the weak line of cleavage formed by making a sharp V-shaped scratch on a cathode, exhibited by Sherard Osborn Cowper-Coles.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. Photographs of flowers &c., in natural colours (Lumiere process), exhibited by William James Russell and Mr. O. F. Bloch.
29. '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. 30. The Cambridge patent extensometer, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company.
31. An instrument for measuring the colour of the hair, eye and skin, exhibited by John Gray.
32. Living specimens of Mymaridae-Ovivorous parasites (new to Great Britain), exhibited by Frederick Enock.
33. Medallion of Dr. Henry Woodward F.R.S., exhibited by Frank Bowcher.
34. Living examples of the leaf insect from the Seychelles, Phyllium crurifolium Serville, exhibited by Mr. H. S. Leigh.
35. Hybrid between a Prejvalsky mare (Equus prejvalskii) and a highland pony, exhibited by James Cossar Ewart.
36. Photographs by Mrs. E. von Kaufmann of portions of carcasses of a mammoth and rhinoceros found preserved in petroleum at Starunia, Galicia, exhibited by Arthur Smith Woodward.
37. 'Irisographs' or chemical designs, 'caleidographs' original designs executed by aid of the Caleidograph on china, glass, paper and on prepared glass plates, exhibited by Frederick Iles.
38. The large larch sawfly (Nematus erichsonii Hartig) exhibited by Charles Gordon Hewitt.
39. A series of skiagrams illustrating the development of teeth in man, exhibited by Johnson Symington and John Campbell Rankin.
Ground Floor (Committee Room):
40. A combined Kelvin siphon recorder and cable relay, exhibited by Alexander Muirhead.
41. Experiments with a high frequency alternator, exhibited by Sidney George Brown.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
42. The saving of Winchester Cathedral and other ancient buildings, exhibited by Francis Fox.
At 10.45 o'clock.
43. Insect intelligence as exemplified in the life-history of the wood-boring wasps (Crabronidae), exhibited by Frederick Enock.
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