| 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:
Tea and coffee are served upstairs in Room 1.
Room 2 (Officers' Room):
1. Colour photographs shown by spectrum colours, exhibited by Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney.
2. The thermo-galvanometer, an instrument for measuring very small alternating currents, exhibited by William Duddell.
3. Photographic camera with free-swinging lens and photographs taken with it, exhibited by William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
4. Models and photographs of large hailstones, photographs illustrating meteorological phenomena, photographs of sparks and spiralling arcs, boots of a man struck by lightning showing damage, exhibited by the Royal Meteorological Society.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
5. Photographs of volcanic phenomena in the Lipari Islands, exhibited by Tempest Anderson.
6. High power microscopy, exhibited by John William Gordon.
Room 4 (Council Room):
7. Experiments with some new phosphorescent materials, exhibited by Herbert Jackson and Dudley Northall-Laurie.
8. Photographs and drawings prepared from observations taken by the Lightning Research Committee, exhibited by Killingworth Hedges.
9. The Narraburra siderite, New South Wales, photographs of the Metallurgical Laboratory, University of Sydney, exhibited by Archibald Liversidge.
10. A new magnetic balance, exhibited by Walter Hibbert.
11. Photographs of clouds, exhibited by Commander David Wilson-Barker.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
12. Photographs and diagrams illustrating solar and meteorological changes and a series of photographs to determine the relative temperatures of the stars, exhibited by Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer.
13. A cylindrical telescope for the rotation of images, exhibited by George James Burch.
14. An experiment illustrating the harmonic undertones, exhibited by Herbert Knapman.
15. The physiotype, exhibited by Francis Sheridan.
16. Vibrograph for recording vibrations photographically, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Limited.
17. Experiment showing the effect of internal stresses in glass upon light of different colours, exhibited by Louis Napoleon George Filon.
18. Living specimens of young flatfish, methods of determining the age of Plaice, charts illustrating the natural history of the Plaice in the North Sea, charts illustrating the plankton and hydrography of the English Channel during 1903, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
19. Photographs illustrative of induced radio-activity of bacteria, exhibited by Alan B. Green.
20. The Cilioscribe a machine to record the movements of cilia and the effect of physical conditions and chemical reagents upon them, exhibited by Walter Ernest Dixon and Mr. O. Inchley.
21. Plants and photographs from the High Andes of Bolivia and Peru, exhibited by Arthur William Hill.
21a. Specimens of West Indian fire-flies, exhibited by the Zoological Society of London.
22. A new automatic vacuum pump, exhibited by Charles Edmund Stanley Phillips.
23. Photography of the movements of plants by means of the Kammatograph, exhibited by Mrs. D. H. [Victoria Henderina] Scott.
24. Demonstration of oscillating electric discharges, exhibited by Arthur Schuster and Gustave Adolphe Hemsalech.
25. Micro-photographs of interior of a rifle barrel, micro-photographs of brass used for cartridge cases, exhibited by William Richard Hodgkinson and Captain Hardcastle.
26. A set of coloured lantern slides of microscopic sections of igneous rocks etc., exhibited by Edmund Johnston Garwood.
27. Colour photographs (Sanger-Shepherd process) of living moths and butterflies in their various stages of larva, pupa and imago, exhibited by Frederick Enock.
28. Model of the external door of the Great Pyramid, Ellipsograph, exhibited by Richard Inwards.
29. Models to illustrate the reduction (heterotype) divisions in animals and plants, exhibited by John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore.
30. Mimetic resemblance of the different forms of a single species of butterfly to two or three different models. Seasonal phases of South African butterflies of the genus Precis, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
31. Spontaneous electrification of radium, exhibited by Robert John Strutt.
32. Crystalline glazes on pottery, exhibited by William Burton and Joseph Burton.
Ground Floor (Archives Room):
33. The origin and growth of ripple mark, exhibited by Mrs. Hertha Ayrton.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations by means of the electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
34. Lantern slides illustrative of (1) operations at the Simplon Tunnel (2) the Victoria Falls and Gorge of the River Zambesi and proposed bridge, exhibited by Francis Fox.
At 10.30 o'clock.
35. The charge of negative electricity fired off by radium, exhibited by Robert John Strutt.
At 11.0 o'clock.
36. Colour photographs of living insects, exhibited by Frederick Enock.
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