| 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 1-4 and Ground Floor. Commencing with a note of lantern slide displays taking place at a specific time during the evening.
Room 1 (Officers' Room):
1. Specimens illustrating the action of light and of radium upon glass, exhibited by Sir William Crookes.
2. Phosphorescence caused by the beta-rays of radium, exhibited by George Thomas Beilby.
3. Clock and chronometer by Thomas Mudge, exhibited by Arnuph Mallock.
4. Tangent-micrometer for theodolites &c., endless-tangent screw for sextants, exhibited by Edward Ayearst Reeves.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
5. The Ashe-Finlayson Comparascope, exhibited by Mr. D. Finlayson.
6. Charts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence showing the co-tidal lines at mean time of Quebec, exhibited by Captain Thomas Henry Tizard.
7. The Great Indian Earthquake 4th April 1905, exhibited by John Milne.
Room 3 (Council Room):
8. A direct reading cymometer for measuring the length of the waves used in wireless telegraphy, an oscillation valve for rectifying electrical oscillations and rendering them measurable on an ordinary galvimeter, exhibited by John Ambrose Fleming.
9. An optical appliance to facilitate visual perception of ultra microscopic particles, exhibited by Carl Zeiss.
10. Skiagrams of the hands of Machnow, the Russian giant, and of O'Brien, the Irish giant, exhibited by Samuel George Shattock.
11. Photographs illustrating young cuckoo in the act of ejecting eggs and young bird from nest of foster-parent, exhibited by William Percival Westell.
12. Photographs taken in China by the Carnegie Expedition under Mr. Bailey Willis in 1904 illustrating a presumably glacial deposit underlying the base of the Cambrian rocks in the region, exhibited by Sir Archibald Geikie.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
13. Photographs of the 'Cullinan' diamond, exhibited by Sir William Crookes.
14. Microphotographs of section of gun tube, microphotographs of alloys of aluminium with nickel, microphotographs of alloy of copper with cobalt and nickel, exhibited by Dr. Hodgkinson, Captain Playfair, and Mr. Coote.
15. Resonance induction coil and high potential apparatus, resonance electro magnet, exhibited by Messrs. Isenthal & Company.
16. High temperature electric furnaces, exhibited by Richard Tetley Glazebrook, the Director of the National Physical Laboratory.
17. Action of Actinium or Emanium emanation on a sensitive screen, exhibited by Sir William Ramsay.
18. Stereoscopic views of the Sun and stars of estimated parallax, exhibited by Mr. T. E. Heath.
19. Oil painting - a Friday evening lecture at the Royal Institution of Great Britain [probably Sir James Dewar lecturing on liquid hydrogen], exhibited by Henry Jamyn Brooks.
20. Stone adze heads in various stages of manufacture and chips from the neighbourhood of Sulonga, Woodlark Islands, British New Guinea, photographs of straight haired individuals from Nara district Central Division, British New Guinea, wood carvings and drawings, principally from Massim District, British New Guinea, exhibited by Charles Gabriel Seligmann.
21. Transverse sections of slip-bands and other microscopic features of metallic surfaces, exhibited by Walter Rosenhain.
22. Microscope and goniometer stage, set of petrological quartz wedges, photo-micrographic camera, exhibited by Messrs. R. & J. Beck.
23. Large echelon spectroscope, exhibited by Arthur Schuster.
24. Torsion balance used in radiation pressure measurements, by Nicholls and Hull, vacuum tube of Nichols and Hull to illustrate the repulsion of comet tails by the Sun (in action), exhibited by Ernest Fox Nichols.
25. Living representatives of the Plymouth marine fauna, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
26. New models of laboratory electric furnaces, exhibited by Robert Salmon Huttton.
27. Photographs, cast and model of skull of Diplodocus, a Jurassic dinosaur from Wyoming and other fossils from the middle west of North America, exhibited by William Jacob Holland, Director of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, U.S.A.
28. Remains of fossil mammals from Crete, exhibited by Dorothea Minola Alice Bate.
29. Microscopic preparations illustrating the development of calcareous spicules in various invertebrate animals, exhibited by Edward Alfred Minchin and Mr. W. Woodland.
30. Cellular constituents peculiar to cancerous and reproductive tissues, exhibited by John Bretland Farmer, John Edmund Sharrock Moore and Charles Edward Walker.
31. The simplest kind of protoplasm, exhibited by Charlton Bastian.
32. Specimens of cross-bred maize illustrating inheritance in accordance with Mendel's law, exhibited by Robert Heath Lock.
33. The parasite of 'Kala Azar', exhibited by Brevet Lieutenant Colonel William Boog Leishman.
34. The isolation of B Typhosus from water by means of alum precipitation, exhibited by Howard Samuel Willson.
35. A hand refractometer, exhibited by George Frederick Herbert-Smith.
36. A new problem on superimposition, exhibited by Henry Ernest Dudeney.
37. A series of alloys of iron and steel tested at liquid air temperature, exhibited by Robert Abbott Hadfield.
Ground Floor (Committee Room):
38. High tension resonance transformer and x-ray stereoscope, exhibited by Russell Wright.
Secretaries' Room:
39. Apparatus for polishing and preparing metals for microscopic examination, specimens of steels in the cast and forged condition containing phosphorus, exhibited by John Edward Stead.
40. Mechanical lantern slide illustrative of the phenomenon of a total solar eclipse, exhibited by William Shackleton.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations by means of the electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
41. Views of the Antarctic, exhibited by Edward Adrian Wilson.
At 10.30 o'clock.
42. Use of electric valves for the production of high tension continuous current, exhibited by Sir Oliver Lodge.
At 11.0 o'clock.
43. The road to Lhasa, exhibited by Perceval Landon.
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