| 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. The usual lantern slide displays did not take and the programme commences with a note on refreshments. The Society's coat of arms, on the programme cover, is printed in red.
Room 1 (Officers' Room):
1. Some representatives of the Plymouth marine fauna, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
2. Photographs of fish life as seen from below the surface of the water, micro-photographs of larval fish (Plaice) taken from life, exhibited by Francis Ward.
3. Sketches illustrating instantaneous colour changes in sea-perches from the Bermudas, exhibited by Charles Tate Regan.
4. Photographs of surface waves, exhibited by Vaughan Cornish.
Room 2 (Reception Room)
Mace of the Royal Society, Charter Book of the Royal Society, reflecting telescope made by Sir Isaac Newton in 1671, relics of Sir Isaac Newton.
5. Photographs of volcanic phenomena in New Zealand and the South Sea Islands, exhibited by Tempest Anderson.
Room 3 (Council Room):
6. Experiments with polarized light, exhibited by Silvanus Phillips Thompson and Ernest George Coker.
7. The action of stimulants (hormones) in promoting enzymic activity, exhibited by Henry Edward Armstrong and Edward Frankland Armstrong.
8. Photographs and specimens illustrating a biological factor limiting the development of bacteria producing plant food in the soil, photographs and maps illustrating the agricultural geology of the south-east of England, the nutrition of plants by non-nitric sources of nitrogen, exhibited by the Rothamsted Experiment Station (Lawes Agricultural Trust).
Room 4 (Council Room) [probably mis-printed for the Principal Library]:
9. Colour drawings illustrating African mimetic butterflies, exhibited by Harry Eltringham.
10. Photographs and living cultures of B. Phosphorescens showing the germicidal action of some metals, exhibited by Henry Crookes.
11. Objects found in the area to be submerged on the raising of the Aswan Dam, (exhibited by the late Director-General of the Survey Department of Egypt, Captain Henry George Lyons F.R.S., and the present Director-General Mr. E. M. Dowson, on behalf of the Egyptian Government), exhibited by the Nubian Archaeological Survey.
12. Roman portraits 1st century A.D., exhibited by William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
13. Radiometer motion stopped by a very high vacuum, exhibited by Sir James Dewar.
14. Footprints from the Permian sandstones at Poltimore, Devon, exhibited by Arthur William Clayden.
15. Photographs of the National Experimental Tank at the National Physical Laboratory, exhibited by Richard Tetley Glazebrook, the Director, National Physical Laboratory.
16. A practical application of a gyrostat as a mariner's compass, exhibited by Messrs. Elliott Brothers.
17. A series of stereoscopic transparencies illustrating the life history and minute structure of the stick insect (Bacillus rossi), exhibited by George H. Rodman.
18. Examples of osmotic growths, exhibited by Deane Butcher.
19. Collection of Euphorbias showing mimetic resemblance, Ficus krishnae, exhibited by Sir David Prain, the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
20. A parasitic flowering plant from Jamaica Scybalium jamaicense Scott and Endl.), exhibited by William Fawcett.
21. Germination of seeds in heated soil, exhibited by Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering.
22. Spectrum photographs showing the tails of comets, exhibited by Alfred Fowler.
23. Spectrum of the nitrogen afterglow, exhibited by Arthur Fowler and Robert John Strutt.
24. 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.
25. Globe showing the motions of the two main star streams, exhibited by Sir Frank Watson Dyson, the Astronomer Royal.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. Photographs of the planet Mars taken by Prof. E. E. [Edward Emerson] Barnard with the 40-inch telescope of the Yerkes Observatory, exhibited by the Royal Astronomical Society.
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. Living examples of various Mymaridae new to Great Britain bred from eggs of Homoptera and Hemiptera (frog-hoppers and plant-bugs), new species of the Battledore-Wing fly, (Mymar regalis) taken 3rd June 1911 at Burnham Beeches, exhibited by Frederick Enock.
32. Microscopic preparations and a model illustrating the mechanism employed in the production of the oxygen used to inflate the gas bladder of bony fishes, exhibited by Dr. W. N. F. Woodland.
33. Fossil remains of the peculiar goat-like animal Myotragus balearicus Bate from Majorca, photographs of the locality and caves in which the bones of Myotragus were found, exhibited by Miss Dorothy Minola Alice Bate.
34. Remains of tertiary mammals from near Lake Victoria Nyanza, British East Africa, exhibited by Charles William Andrews.
35. Models of shells of extinct cephalopods, exhibited by George Charles Crick.
36. Part of a collection of fossil mammals from the Lower Miocene beds of Dera Bugti, Baluchistan, exhibited by Clive Foster-Cooper.
37. Collection of radiometers and otheoscopes, exhibited by Sir William Crookes.
38. Photomicrography in natural colours, exhibited by William Jackson Pope.
Ground Floor (Entrance Hall):
39. Bronze statue of the late Lord Kelvin, by Mr. Albert Bruce-Joy, to be placed in Belfast, exhibited by Albert Bruce-Joy.
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