| 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, the metal sodium prepared so as to show its true colour and lustre, exhibited by George Thomas Beilby.
3. Photo-micrographic camera, exhibited by Messrs. R. & J. Beck Limited.
4. Photographs of the White Nile and its tributaries taken by the Survey Department of Egypt, exhibited by Captain Henry George Lyons.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
5. The Great Indian Earthquake 4th April 1905, seismographs installed at Shide, exhibited by John Milne.
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. Restoration of a British Jurassic Theropodous dinosaur of the genus Streptospondylus from the Oxford Clay, Oxford, British armoured dinsosaur [Polacanthus foxi], exhibited by Francis Baron Nopcsa.
8. 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.
9. Photographs illustrating the annual growth of a deer's antler, exhibited by Mr. H. Irving.
Room 3 (Council Room):
10. Mechanical lantern slide illustrative of the phenomenon of a total solar eclipse, exhibited by William Shackleton.
11. Living representatives of the Plymouth marine fauna, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
12. Mendelian heredity in rabbits, exhibited by Charles Chamberlain Hurst.
13. Photographic views illustrative of the scenery of Tibet, exhibited by the Royal Geographical Society.
14. Skiagrams of the hands of Machnow, the Russian giant, and of O'Brien, the Irish giant, exhibited by Samuel George Shattock.
15. Stereoscopic views of the Sun and stars of estimated parallax, exhibited by Mr. T. E. Heath.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
16. Drawings made from combined photograph of the solar corona in 1898, 1900 and 1901, exhibited by Sir William Henry Mahoney Christie, the Astronomer Royal.
17. The 'Osmi' incandescent lamp, exhibited by the General Electric Company.
18. Fery Radiation pyrometer, the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company.
19. Action of Actinium or Emanium emanation on a sensitive screen, exhibited by Sir William Ramsay.
20. 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. Ethnological specimens from Southern Mexico, exhibited by Mrs. [Clara Maud] Gadow.
22. Individual local and orthogenetic variation in Mexican lizards of the genus Cnemidophorus, three specimens of Chirotes canaliculatus from Rio Balsas, Mexico, exhibited by Hand Friedrich Gadow.
23. The Ettles-Curties Opthalmometer and ophthalmic microscope, exhibited by Charles Baker.
24. Tantalum and tantalum electric lamps, exhibited by Messrs. Siemens Brothers and Company Limited.
25. Stereoscopic photographs of the recently found 'Cullinan' diamond, of diamonds in the Diamond Office, Kimberley, and of other large diamonds, exhibited by Sir William Crookes.
26. British stone circle photographs, spectroheliograph photographs, curves representing changes in Thames flow in connection with British pressurea dn rainfall, exhibited by Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer.
27. Remains of fossil mammals from Crete, exhibited by Miss Dorothea Minola Alice Bate.
28. Microscopic preparations illustrating the development of calcareous spicules in various invertebrate animals, exhibited by Edward Alfred Minchin and Mr. W. Woodland.
29. The membranous labyrinth of Man and some animals, exhibited by Albert Alexander Gray.
30. Pictures produced in the dark on a photographic plate by different woods, ordinary photographs of the same woods, the woods used in the experiments, exhibited by William James Russell.
31. The Entoptoscope, a new form of ophthalmoscope, exhibited by WSilliam Fletcher Barrrett.
32. A new sundial that tells standard time, designed by Professor Albert Crehore, exhibited by Sir William Henry Preece.
Ground Floor (Archives Room):
33. Demonstration illustrating the life-history of the wood-boring wasps (Crabronidae), photographs from life of transformations of the Brimstone butterfly (Gonetreyx rhamni), exhibited by Frederick Enock.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations by means of the electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
34. Views of the Antarctic, exhibited by Edward Adrian Wilson.
At 10.30 o'clock.
35. Lantern slides of the three-colour photographic process, exhibited by Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney.
At 11.15 o'clock.
36. Recent work in mimicry and protective resemblance, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
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