| 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. 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.
Room 2 (Officers' Room):
2. Stereoscopic x-ray transparencies and negatives, x-ray photograph of a bullet fired from a revolver, exhibited by James Mackenzie Davidson.
3. Apparatus for liquifying hydrogen, exhibited by Morris William Travers.
4. Apparatus for obtaining serial sections of fossils and restorations of fossils in wax built up from serial sections, exhibited by William Johnson Sollas.
5. Stephanospermum and other fossil gymnosperm seeds, exhibited by Francis Wall Oliver.
6. Photographs of the Rocky Mountains of Canada and objects collected, exhibited by Edward Whymper.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
7. Series of objects illustrative of recent discoveries on the site of the Romano-British city of Silchester, near Reading, exhibited by the Silchester Excavation Fund Committee.
8. Examples of telephotography in the Alps and Himalayas, exhibited by Edmund Johnston Garwood.
9. Coloured sketches of sunsets and of birds and fishes obtained during the voyage of the 'Discovery' to New Zealand, exhibited by Edward Adrian Wilson.
Room 4 (Council Room):
10. Examples of the application of natural colour photography, exhibited by Messrs. Sanger Shepherd & Company.
11. The Chromatophores and colour-changes of crustacea, exhibited by Frederick William Gamble and Frederick Keeble.
12. Japanese pictures of Buddhist divinities and saints by Old Masters, exhibited by William Gowland.
13. The corona of 18 May 1901, exhibited by Mrs. E. Walter Maunder [Annie Scott Dill Maunder].
14. Series of photographs illustrative of old customs still extant in Hungerford, Knutsford and Corby, exhibited by Sir John Benjamin Stone.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
15. Photographs of natives of the Maldive Archipelago, photographs of the coral reefs of the Maldive Archipelago, exhibited by John Stanley Gardiner.
16. An attempt to reproduce an Aurora Borealis, exhibited by William Ramsay.
17. A 'Braun' tube for cathode rays, a new therapeutic x-ray tube, exhibited by Alfred Charles Cossor.
18. A new electrical influence machine suitable for campaign work, exhibited by Mr. W. R. Pidgeon.
19. Model of the exploring vessel 'Discovery', exhibited by the Joint Antarctic Committee of the Royal Society and Royal Geographical Society.
20. Simple apparatus for determining the mechanical equivalent of heat, vacuum-jacket calorimeters, exhibited by Hugh Longbourne Callendar.
21. Apparatus for regulating the proportion of chloroform mixed with air which is being administered to produce anaesthesia, apparatus for estimating the proportion of chloroform (1) in a mixture of air and chloroform (2) dissolved in a liquid, exhibited by Augustus Vernon Harcourt.
22. Experiment illustrating a paradoxical consequence of the wave theory of light, exhibited by Edwin Edser and Edgar Senior.
23. Poisonous fodder-plants and food-grains, 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, exhibited by Wyndham Dunstan, Director of the Scientific Department of the Imperial Institute.
24. The scales of fishes as an index of age, living examples of Opisthobranchiate molluscs to illustrate the habits of this group, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
25. The 'Grubb' collimating telescope gun sight, exhibited by Sir Howard Grubb.
26. Specimens and photographs illustrating the fall of volcanic dust at Barbados on 7th and 8th May 1902, exhibited by the West Indian Volcanoes Committee of the Royal Society.
27. Specimens of volcanic dust from the West Indies [Caribbean], exhibited by Henry Crookes.
28. Living tadpoles of the Cape Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis Daud., exhibited by Edward Jeremiah Bles.
29. A series of specimens illustrating the life-history of the Trypanosoma brucii, exhibited by Henry George Plimmer.
30. Apiosoma bigeminium the parasite found in the blood of Texas Fever of cattle, exhibited by Colonel David Bruce and Henry George Plimmer.
31. New species of Fairy flies (Mymaridae), exhibited by Frederick Enock.
32. Bronze examples of the newly founded David Edward Hughes medal and the medallion of the reverse, exhibited by the Royal Society.
33. Specimens, sketches and photographs of Moriori workmanship from the Chatham Islands, exhibited by Arthur Dendy.
34. Otoliths of fishes, exhibited by Edwin Tulley Newton.
35. A collection of ear-rings from British New Guinea, exhibited by Alfred Cort Haddon.
36. Series of worked flints from Egypt, exhibited by William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
Ground Floor (Archives Room):
37. Experiments exhibiting interference between portions of light from independent sources, exhibited by George Johnstone Stoney.
38. A new and improved type of chronograph, exhibited by Robert Ludwig Mond and Meyer Wilderman.
39. Attempts to reproduce polarisation effects by three colour printing, exhibited by Henry Alexander Miers.
40. Plane mirror given to the laboratory by Dr. [Andrew Ainslie] Common F.R.S., exhibited by 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.
41. Early civilisation in Egypt, exhibited by William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
At 10.0 o'clock.
42. A series of lantern slides illustrating the performance of Mr. [Alberto] Santos Dumont's steerable balloon and the accident to it on 14th February 1902, exhibited by John Young Buchanan.
At 11.15 o'clock
43. Recent work upon protective resemblance and mimicry in insects, illustrated by three-colour slides, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
Refreshments on the Ground Floor. |