| 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. Improved form of Thomson coal-calorimeter, exhibited by Walter Rosenhain.
2. Stereoscopic x-ray transparencies and negatives, x-ray photographs of a bullet fired from a revolver, exhibited by James Mackenzie Davidson.
3. Synthetic indigo, exhibited by the Badische Anilin and Soda Fabrik, Ludwigshafen on the Rhine.
4. A new and improved form of chronograph, exhibited by Robert Ludwig Mond and Meyer Wilderman.
Room 2 (Officers' Room):
5. Apparatus for natural colour photography and examples of its applications, a new camera for securing the three negatives through one lens at one exposure, a camera for photo-micrographic work fitted with colour filters for natural colour photography, exhibited by Messrs' Sanger, Shepherd & Company.
6. Three-circle goniometer, exhibited by George Frederick Herbert Smith.
7. Curve-adder made by G. Coradi, of Zurich, for Prof. K. [Karl] Pearson F.R.S., lecture models illustrating graphical treatment of girder-deflections, circular slide rule and planisphere, slide rule designed by Prof. de Morgan and believed by him to be first circular slide rule, exhibited by the Department of Applied Mathematics, University College, London.
8. Gilbert of Colchester notabilia, exhibited by Silvanus Phillips Thompson.
9. Folding range-finder infantry model, exhibited by George Forbes.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
10. Photographs of natives of the Maldive Archipelago, photographs of the coral reefs of the Maldive Archipelago, exhibited by John Stanley Gardiner.
11. Coloured sketches of the birds and fishes obtained during the voyage of the 'Discovery' to New Zealand, exhibited by Edward Adrian Wilson.
12. Cephalometric instruments and cephalograms, exhibited by Mr. J. Gray.
13. Models of deep sea fishes (Gastrostomus bairdi and Saccopharynx flagellum), models of breeds of horses and cattle, exhibited by Edwin Ray Lankester, the Director, British Museum (Natural History).
14. Stone implements &c., from Stonehenge, exhibited by William Gowland on behalf of Colonel Sir Edmund Antrobus.
Room 4 (Council Room):
15. Watercolour sketches by Miss Breton of canyons, glaciers and water falls in the United States and British Columbia showing the agents in land sculpture, exhibited by Rev Henry Hoyte Winwood on behalf of Miss [Adela Catherine] Breton.
16. Photo-micrographs of the crystalline structure of platinum, photo-micrographs of the crystalline structure of large steel ingots, exhibited by Thomas Andrews.
17. Series of zircons from Ceylon illustrating range of density and colours, exhibited by Arthur Herbert Church.
18. The spectrum of zircon, spongioporphyrin the colouring matter of Suberites wilsoni and Australian sponge, exhibited by Charles Alexander MacMunn.
19. Attempts to reproduce polarisation effects by three-colour printing, exhibited by Henry Alexander Miers.
20. Experiments illustrating the effect of ultra-violet light on the electric discharge, exhibited by John Ambrose Fleming.
21. The development of photographic negatives in ordinary light, exhibited by James Mackenzie Davidson.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
22. Spectra of metallic poles sparked in water and air and spectra of meteorites, rocks, minerals and ashes of plants, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
23. Whipple's temperature indicator, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Limited.
24. Effects of ultra-violet radiation, exhibited by Dawson Turner.
25. Experimental illustration of one cause of steam pipe explosions, exhibited by Charles Edmund Stromeyer.
26. A new electrical influence machine suitable for campaign work, exhibited by Mr. W. R. Pidgeon.
27. Lenses of fluorine and quartz, large prism of vitreous silica, exhibited by William Ashwell Shenstone and J. William Gifford.
28. Poisonous fodder-plants and food-grains and their cyanogenetic glucosides, Indian and Egyptian drugs and their constituents, India-rubber from Bahr el Ghazal and Zululand varieties of gutta percha from Sarawak, Ceylon and South Africa, coal iron ores mica and other minerals from India, Central Africa, Nigeria, Somaliland, Trinidad and the Grecian Archipelago, specimens of tobacco cultivated in Bermuda with photographs of the crops, specimens of Indian and Australian gums and resins, exhibited by Wyndham Dunstan, Director of the Imperial Institute.
29. Electricity meter for either direct current or alternate current, exhibited by William Morris Morley and G. L. Fricker [Guy Carey Fricker].
30. The colour of a krypton tube, exhibited by William Ramsay.
31. Film structure in metals and other plastic solids, exhibited by George Beilby.
32. The spectrum of iron in the flame of the Bunsen burner, a Rowland grating of one metre focus, exhibited by Arthur Schuster.
33. The scales of fishes as an index of age, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
34. A 'Braun' tube for cathode rays, a new therapeutic x-ray tube, exhibited by Alfred Charles Cossor.
35. Micro-structure of iron and meteoric irons containing free phosphides and carbides of iron and nickel, the micro-constituents of steel, exhibited by John Edward Stead.
36. The solar parallax from observations of the planet Eros (preliminary results), exhibited by the Cambridge Observatory.
37. Photographs of the nebula surrounding the Nova Persei, photographed by Mr. G. W. [George Willis] Ritchey, Yerkes Observatory, U.S.A., exhibited by the Royal Astronomical Society.
38. Manuscripts relating to the discovery of Neptune by the late Prof. J Couch Adams F.R.S., exhibited by St. John's College, Cambridge, through Professor Ralph Allan Sampson.
39. Apparatus for the regulated administration of chloroform, exhibited by Augustus Vernon Harcourt.
40. A recording pressure gauge for artillery, a recording pressure gauge for low pressure explosions (suitable for gas engine research and experimental physics, exhibited by Joseph Ernest Petavel and Captain J. Bruce-Kingsmill.
41. Plane mirror given to the laboratory by Dr. [Andrew Ainslie] Common F.R.S., exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
42. Living specimens of Ovivorous parasites ((Mymaridae) together with larvae and pupae in the eggs of Liburnia (frog-hoppers), exhibited by Frederick Enock.
43. Luminous organs in Pterygioteuthis margaritifera, a Mediterranean cephalopod, exhibited by William Evans Hoyle.
44. Trypanosoma theileri - a new species of parasite discovered in the blood of cattle in South Africa, exhibited by Lieutenant Colonel David Bruce.
45. Specimen of Trypanosoma found in the blood of man, exhibited by Joseph Everett Dutton on behalf of the School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool.
46. Newly discovered fossil mammals and reptiles from Egypt, exhibited by Edwin Ray Lankester, the Director, British Museum (Natural History).
47. The 'Imperial' microscope with mechanical adjustments for critical work showing Grayson's micrometer rulings in realgar up to 60,000 lines to the inch, exhibited by Messrs. R. and J. Beck Limited.
48. A collection of ear-rings from British New Guinea, exhibited by Alfred Cort Haddon.
49. Microscopic preparations of Astrosclera willeyana, with specimens illustrating the determination of the mineral constituent of the skeleton by Meigen's method, exhibited by Joseph Jackson Lister and Mr. A. Hutchinson.
50. Otoliths of fishes, exhibited by Edwin Tulley Newton.
Ground Floor (Committee Room):
51. Tilting stage for the microscope, optical bench for metallurgical work, exhibited by Professor W. K. Huntington.
52. Demonstration of retransmission on submarine telegraph cables (cable relaying), exhibited by Alexander Muirhead.
Secretaries' Room:
53. Kite and winding-in apparatus for raising meteorological instruments, exhibited by William Henry Dines.
54. The distribution of electric currents induced in a solid iron cylinder when rotated in a magnetic field, exhibited by Professor E. Wilson.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations, by means of the electric lantern, will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
The applications of photography to the production of pictures in colour, exhibited by Sir Henry Trueman Wood.
At 10.45 o'clock.
Lantern slides in natural colours of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, the Sierra Nevada, California and the Yellowstone Park, exhibited by Dr. R. D. Roberts.
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