| 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 on refreshments, the usual lantern slide displays not taking place.
Room 1 (Officers' Room):
1. Experiments with ripples, exhibited by Lionel Robert Wilberforce.
2. Living crustacea from the neighbourhood of Plymouth, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
3. Botanical photographs taken in German South Africa, exhibited by Henry Harold Welch Pearson.
4. Portrait of Dr. W. H. [William Hyde] Wollaston, in pencil and colour, by [Henry] Edridge, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
Room 3 (Council Room):
5. Poulsen's telegraphon, exhibited by Silvanus Phillips Thompson.
6. Antarctic views, exhibited by the late Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson, lent by Mrs. Oriana Fanny Wilson.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
7. Spiraloid curve apparatus, exhibited by Richard Inwards.
8. Apparatus for measuring stress distribution in transparent materials, exhibited by Ernest George Coker.
9. Rainbow cups - old and new patterns, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
10. Photographs of the skeletons of extinct giant lemurs from Madagascar also casts of skulls of the same, exhibited by Herbert Fox Standing.
11. Model illustrating the topography of the Tuskar Rock and lighthouse relative to some features in the diurnal migration of certain birds, studies in the migratory movements of birds at the Tuskar Light-station illustrated by a series of photographs, exhibited by Charles Joseph Patten.
12. Specimens illustrating the behaviour of metals at relatively high temperatures (Dr. [Walter] Rosenhain, and Mr. Ewen), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
13. Instruments for aeronautical work and research on aeroplane stability, exhibited by Mervyn Joseph Pius O'Gorman.
14. Model to illustrate the effect of a compound cross sea on vessels of various rolling periods, exhibited by Sir John Thornycroft.
15. Experiments with liquid drops and skins, exhibited by Charles Robert Darling.
16. British protura, exhibited by Carrington Bonsor Williams.
17. An ancient Egyptian astronomical instrument, exhibited by Henry George Lyons.
18. Colour blindness, if any, of eminent astronomers, exhibited by Edward Charles Pickering, Director of Harvard College Observatory.
19. A collection of artificial crystals, exhibited by William Jackson Pope.
20. 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).
21. A synepigonic series of Paplio Dardanus from the parent form Planemoides, exhibited by Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter.
22. All-female families and mixed families of Acraea encedon bred by Mr. W. A. Lamborn in the Lagos District, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
23. The moth Abrazus grossulariata - inheritance of tendency to produce unisexual broods, exhibited by Leonard Doncaster.
24. Phenomena of plant-breeding, exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution.
25. Skeleton of Dicynodon sp. Nov. female individual, exhibited by David Meredith Seares Watson.
26. Recrystallisation of gold on annealing, exhibited by Thomas Kirke Rose.
27. Egyptian jewellery 3,400 B.C., exhibited by William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
28. Polyzoa of waterworks, exhibited by Sidney Frederic Harmer.
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