| 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. An improved high tension discharge apparatus, a high tension electrostatic wattmeter, exhibited by Ernest Wilson and Mr. W. H. Wilson.
2. Model of orbit of Jupiter's eighth satellite, globe showing the motions of the two main star streams, exhibited by Sir Frank Watson Dyson, the Astronomer Royal.
2a. Photographs of Halley's Comet taken with the 30-inch Reynolds reflector by Mr. H. [Harold] Knox Shaw, exhibited by the Director, Khedivial Observatory, Helwan, Egypt.
3. Photographic negatives of Halley's Comet, taken at the Lowell Observatory 4th May to 5th June 1910, plates of slit spectrograms of Halley's Comet, plates of slitless spectrograms of Halley's Comet, exhibited by the Lowell Observatory, Arizona, U.S.A.
4. Series of photographs of nebulae taken by Prof. G. W. [George Willis] Ritchey with the 60-inch reflector of the Mount Wilson Observatory, California in 1910, exhibited by the Royal Astronomical Society.
5. Spectrum photographs showing the composition of the tails of comets, exhibited by Alfred Fowler.
6. Experiments on stream-line motion in curved pipes, exhibited by John Eustice.
7. Contrivance fitted to Miners' safety lamps for the detection of fire damp, a differential hygroscope, exhibited by Sir Henry Cunynghame and John Cadman.
8. Analytical balance with protected beam, exhibited by Mr. J. J. Manley.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
9. Series of sections of gold nuggets and photographs to illustrate the same, specimens and sections of Australian meteorites and photographs, exhibited by Archibald Liversidge.
10. Photographs of surface waves, exhibited by Vaughan Cornish.
11. Mountain photographs, exhibited by Tom George Longstaff.
12. Photographs and prints descriptive of dirigibles, exhibited by Eric S Bruce .
13. The electric charges associated with vegetable cells, exhibited by William Mundell Thornton.
Room 3 (Council Room):
14. The culture of marine diatoms as food for developing larvae, a collection of living marine animals from the neighbourhood of Plymouth, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
15. Deep sea invertebrates, new of rare species taken by the polar ship 'Scotia' in Antarctic seas during the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904), exhibited by William Speirs Bruce.
16. Cushion plants and their seedlings, exhibited by Sir David Prain, the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
17. 'Chimaeras' and Winkler's graft-hybrids from Prof E. [Erwin] Baur (Berlin), a case of coupling in Pisum between roundness of seed and power to produce tendrils in the ratio 63:1:1:63, exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution.
18. The action of stimulants (hormones) in promoting enzymic activity, exhibited by Henry Edward Armstrong and Edward Frankland Armstrong.
19. The bactericidical action of light produced by a quartz mercury vapour lamp, apparatus for disintegrating bacterial and other organic cells, exhibited by Richard T. Hewlett and Joseph Edward Barnard.
20. A biological factor in soils limiting the activity of bacteria in producing plant food, exhibited by Alfred Daniel Hall.
21. Sketches illustrating instantaneous colour changes in sea-perches from the Bermudas, exhibited by Charles Tate Regan.
22. Footprints from Permian sandstones at Poltimore, Devon, an actinograph or radiation recorder, exhibited by Arthur William Clayden.
23. A method of measuring the viscosity of a small quantity of gas, exhibited by Alexander Oliver Rankine.
24. Twisted cylindrical and castellated metal specimens, exhibited by Charles Edward Larard.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
25. Spectroheliograms of the Sun, diagrams illustrating the southern hemisphere surface air circulation, observations of Halley's Comet at Fosterdown, Caterham, photographic laboratory spectra, exhibited by the Solar Physics Observatory, South Kensington.
26. Enlarged photographs of the forms assumed by the brush discharge in air at reduced pressures, exhibited by Charles W. Raffety.
27. Fluorescence and resonance spectrum of iodine vapour with monochromatic excitation, development of band spectrum by presence of helium, echelette diffraction gratings, exhibited by Robert Williams Wood, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
28. Interference colours produced by transparent materials under stress, exhibited by Ernest George Coker.
29. Radiometer acting by the pressure of mercury vapour given off by the liquid between the ordinary temperature and -25 degrees centigrade, exhibited by Sir James Dewar.
30. Anomalous dispersion in metallic vapours, exhibited by Penry Vaughan Bevan.
31. Model of 'detached escapement' for pendulum clocks, the model also illustrates a simple method of keeping the density of the air surrounding the pendulum constant, exhibited by Arnulph Mallock.
32. Roman portraits 1st century A.D., exhibited by William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
33. Working model of winding gear used for kite flying at Pyrton Hill, exhibited by William Henry Dines.
34. A new large sliding microtome, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Limited.
35. Electrical effects accompanying the fermentative activity of yeast, exhibited by Michael Cresse Potter.
36. Telephone relays, model of electrical stethoscope, exhibited by Sidney George Brown.
37. Photographs and living cultures of B. Phosphorescens showing the germicidal action of some metals, exhibited by Henry Crookes.
38. Experiments showing visibly the oscillatory discharge of a condenser by Hemsalech's method and its magnetizing action on finely divided iron cores, exhibited by John Ambrose Fleming.
39. A micro-balance, exhibited by Sir William Ramsay and Robert Whytlaw Gray.
40. Tubes showing electric discharge through neon, exhibited by John Norman Collie.
41. An anomaly in the lagging of wires and pipes, exhibited by Alfred William Porter.
42. Experiments showing the separation of a homogenous substance into three layers when the solution is warmed, solutions of certain salts in ether not miscible with excess of ether, exhibited by James Ernest Marsh.
43. Resistance of Bacillus pyocyaneus to drying in vacuo, experiments devised to ascertain how far this factor might be per se lethal to bacteria in interstellar space, microscopic sections of urinary calculi from the human subject, exhibited by Samuel George Shattock and Leonard Stanley Dudgeon.
44. Model of Xenopsylla cheopsis the tropical plague flea, exhibited by Nathaniel Charles Rothschild.
45. Photomicrographs of new species of British Mymaridae, exhibited by Frederick Enock.
46. A parasite found in cases of infantile splenic anaemia, exhibited by Sir William Boog Leishman.
47. Moth from Peru (Caligo) imitating an owl, elytron of beetle (Pachyrhynchus), butterfly from Borneo (Ornithptera-brookeana) mimicking the tips of the leaflets of a pinnate leaf emerging from the deep shade of a tropical forest, the midribs of the leaflets, and the serratures of the edges are well represented, exhibited by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury.
48. Colour drawings illustrating African mimetic butterflies, exhibited by Harry Eltringham.
49. Recent observations on mimicry, protective resemblance &c., in African and South American butterflies and moths, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton, Mr. Clare Aveling Wiggins, Mr. W. A. Lamborn, and Mr. E. G. Joseph.
50. Osmotic growths, exhibited by Deane Butcher.
51. Stereo-radiographs of monkey and tortoise, a set of transparencies illustrating the development of the x-ray tube, exhibited by George H. Rodman.
52. Sections showing stages in the sporogony of a new Coccidian parasitic in the whelk, exhibited by William John Dakin.
53. Photomicrography in natural colours exhibited by William Jackson Pope.
54. Exhibition of tracks of ionising particles in gases, exhibited by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson.
55. Skeleton of Ornithodesmus latidens a pterodactyl from the Wealden shales of Atherfield, Isle of Wight, exhibited by Reginald Walter Hooley.
56. Collection of old radiometers and otheoscopes, exhibited by Sir William Crookes.
57. Remains of fossil reptiles from the Triassic sandstone of Lossiemouth, Elgin, exhibited by Mr. W. Taylor.
Ground Floor (Committee Room):
58. Radium bromide from pitchblende found in Trenwith Mine, St. Ives Consolidated Mines, St. Ives, Cornwall, specimen of rich pitchblende ore from the mine, exhibited by Francis Fox.
Secretaries' Room:
59. The Anschutz gyro-compass, exhibited by Messrs Elliott Brothers.
60. Portable potentiometer for temperature measurement with thermo-couples (Dr. W. [Walter] Rosenhain and Mr. S. W. Melsom), ionisation in the electric furnace (Dr. J. A. Harker and Mr. C. G. Eden), a simple apparatus for measuring small thicknesses and displacements (Mr. E. H. Rayner), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations will take place at the times specified.
At 10,0 o'clock.
On the afterglow of the electric discharge and on an active modification of nitrogen, exhibited by Robert John Strutt.
At 11.0 o'clock.
Adaption to high altitudes in relation to mountain sickness, exhibited by Joseph Barcroft.
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