| 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 (The Office):
1. The electrical measurement of wind velocity as applied to the distribution round a circular rod in an air current, exhibited by Professor J. T. Morris.
2. Convection radiometer and thermo-galvanometer, exhibited by Frank Wilfred Jordan.
3. Model to illustrate the effect of a compound cross sea on vessels of various rolling periods, exhibited by Sir John Thornycroft.
4. Diagrams of sunspot analysis, exhibited by Herbert Hall Turner.
5. Spectrum of Arcturus with iron comparison spectrum, exhibited by the Royal Astronomical Society.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
6. Botanical photographs taken in German South Africa, exhibited by Henry Harold Welch Pearson.
7. Original drawings, by Thomas Savery, of his steam engine, exhibited by the Royal Society.
8. An original ballot list of the Royal Society under the first President, Viscount Brouncker, for the Anniversary Meeting on 30th November 1671, portrait of Dr. W. H. [William Hyde] Wollaston, in pencil and colour, by [Henry] Edridge, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
Room 3 (Council Room):
9. Living crustacea from the neighbourhood of Plymouth, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
10. Remains of fossil mammals from the early Miocene deposits of Dera Bugti in Baluchistan, exhibited by Clive Foster-Cooper.
11. Skull and grave furniture from Saxon graveyard at East Shefford, Berkshire, explored 1912, exhibited by Harold John Edward Peake and Earnest Albert Hooton.
12. The brain-cast obtained from the Piltdown skull, and other specimens for comparison, exhibited by Grafton Elliott Smith.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
13. Coloured map of the North Atlantic and bordering regions to show the submerged terraces and river valleys as determined by the soundings of the Admiralty charts, exhibited by Edward Hull.
14. On the presence of neon and helium in hydrogen after the passage of the electric discharge through the latter at low pressure, exhibited by John Norman Collie and Hubert Sutton Patterson.
15. Experiments with ripples, exhibited by Lionel Robert Wilberforce.
16. Rainbow cups - old and new patterns, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
17. Determination of the volumetric heat of air, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and flame in the cylinder of the internal combustion engine, exhibited by Dugald Clerk.
18. Kata-thermometers of comfort-heaters, exhibited by Leonard Hill.
19. Carbon dioxide thermoscope a self-contained pocket instrument for the thermo-metric analysis of carbonic acid gas in furnace and other gases, exhibited by the Underfeed Stoker Company Limited.
20. New lines in the spectrum of hydrogen, exhibited by Alfred Fowler.
21. Apophorometer, rack barometer, stomatograph, yaw indicator, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Limited.
22. Instruments for aeronautical work and research on aeroplane stability, exhibited by Mervyn Joseph Pius O'Gorman.
23. A micromanometer capable of detecting differences of pressure of the order of one millionth of a millimetre of mercury, exhibited by Mr. J. D. Fy.
24. A collection of artificial crystals, exhibited by William Jackson Pope.
25. Marine coscinodiscus showing filaments shown under the microscope with high-power dark ground illuminator (mounted by H. J. Waddington), exhibited by Conrad Beck.
26. Stone implements of early Palaeolithic types from South Africa, exhibited by Henry Balfour.
27. An ancient Egyptian astronomical instrument, exhibited by Henry George Lyons.
28. British protura, exhibited by Carrington Bonsor Williams.
29. Blood parasites, new or from new hosts, exhibited by Henry George Plimmer.
30. Skull, mandible, shoulder girdle and forelimb of Dicynodon sp. Nov. female individual, exhibited by Dr. S. Watson.
31. Sections of upper Devonian plants showing structure, exhibited by Dukinfield Henry Scott
32. Remains of Palaeolithic human skull and mandible with flint implements and mammalian teeth from a gravel pit at Piltdown, Fletching, Sussex, exhibited by Arthur Smith Woodward, Keeper of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
33. All-female families and mixed families of Acraea encedon bred by Mr. W. A. Lamborn in the Lagos District, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
34. Ultra condenser for the observation of ultra-microscopic particles, exhibited by Ernst Leitz.
35. Specimens illustrating the behaviour of metals at relatively high temperatures (Dr. [Walter] Rosenhain, and Mr. Ewen), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
36. Polyzoa of waterworks, exhibited by Sidney Frederic Harmer.
37. Collection of deep sea animals taken by the 'Scotia' Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902, 1903, and 1904, exhibited by William Speirs Bruce, Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory.
38. The moth Abrazus grossulariata - inheritance of tendency to produce unisexual broods, exhibited by Leonard Doncaster.
Ground Floor (Secretaries' Room):
39. The Sperry gyro-compass, exhibited by Reginald Everett Gillmor.
40. Apparatus for the rapid determination of the lifting power of samples of hydrogen (Mr. Guy Barr), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations will take place at the times specified:
At 9.45 o'clock.
The motion of viscous fluids, exhibited by Leonard Bairstow.
At 10.45 o'clock.
The discovery of a Palaeolithic human skull and mandible at Piltdown, Fletching, Sussex, exhibited by Arthur Smith Woodward.
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