| 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. Scientific and animated gyrostats, exhibited by James Gordon Gray.
2. The iridoscope, exhibited by Louis Brennan.
3. A 12-inch transit theodolite, levelling staves for precise work, exhibited by Sir Charles Frederick Close, the Director-General, Ordnance Survey.
4. Map and table illustrating the work of the new magnetic survey of the British Isles, exhibited by George Walker Walker.
5. The caleometer, exhibited by Leonard Hill and Owen Williams Griffith.
6. An aerodynamic balance, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
7. Photographs illustrative of landslides and upheavals on the Panama Canal, exhibited by Vaughan Cornish.
8. Banding in limestone and other rocks due to osmosis (Prof. S. Leduc) or segregation banding (George Abbott) exhibited by George Abbott.
Room 3 (Council Room):
9. Eggs, larvae and young stages of British fishes, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
10. Double tadpoles of the frog and double sea-urchins, exhibited by Ernest William MacBride and Mr. H. G. Newth.
11. Cast of the 'paddle' or fore limb of a Humpback whale, exhibited by the Zoological Department of the British Museum (Natural History).
12. Illustrations of muscular continuity and nodal tissue in the heart, exhibited by Albert Frank Stanley Kent.
13. Millibar barometers, specimen of the daily record of the weather at the Meteorological Office, seismographs from Eskdalemuir, a hundred years of rainfall in the London district, exhibited by the Meteorological Office.
14. Specimens and photomicrographs of electro-deposited lead, showing effect of varying current density, temperature and the addition of organic salts, exhibited by Sherard Osborn Cowper-Coles.
15. Preparations illustrating the products of reactions in gels, exhibited by Emil Hatschek.
16. Instantaneous photographs on paper taken in natural colour by the polychromide system, exhibited by the Polychromide Company (The Dover Street Sudios Limited).
Room 4 (Principal Library):
17. Apparatus for mounting micro-sections of metals at right angles to the optic axis of the microscope, a new reagent for etching mild steel for microscopic examination (Dr. W. Rosenhain and Mr, J. L. [John Leslie] Haughton), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory (Walter Rosenhain).
18. Water model of the electric arc, exhibited by William Du Bois Duddell.
19. Blower for very large soap bubbles, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
20. Specimens collected by the Percy Sladen Expedition to Brazil 1913, exhibited by James Peter Hill.
21. Geological model of the Thames Valley near Goring and Reading, graptolites from Silurian rocks in a bore hole made in search of coal at Chilham, Kent, graptolite from Cambrian shales in a bore hole made in search of coal at Calvert, Buckinghamshire, ligament of a foissil oyster (Ostrea bellovacina) from the Lower Tertiary beds (Oldhaven Beds) at Beckenham showing the flexibility of a recent specimen, exhibited by the Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.
22. A selection of specimens collected on the British Antarctic ('Terra Nova') Expedition 1910-1913 under the leadership of the late Capt. R. F. [Robert Falcon] Scott C.V.O., R.N., exhibited by the British Museum (Natural History).
23. Coloured models showing resemblance between poisonous and harmless coral snakes, exhibited by Hans Friedrich Gadow.
24. A simple microbalance for the determination of the densities of small quantities of gases, exhibited by Francis William Aston.
25. Some new developments in the manufacture of apparatus in transparent quartz glass, exhibited by the Silica Syndicate Limited.
26. Some new surface tension phenomena and an experiment to show the structure of liquid jets, exhibited by Charles Robert Darling.
27. Electrification produced during the raising of a cloud of dust, exhibited by William Arthur Douglas Rudge.
28. Transparencies showing some of the most interesting features of the Milky Way (selected from the Franklin-Adams chart), exhibited by Sir Frank Dyson, the Astronomer Royal.
29. Sir William Crookes's glasses for spectacles, exhibited by Messrs. Chance Brothers & Company Limited.
30. Models showing the structure of certain crystals, exhibited by William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg.
31. A terrestrial globe dated 1620 constructed to serve as a time-piece supported by a gilt bronze figure of Atlas, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
32. A new binocular microscope, exhibited by Ernst Leitz.
33. Transparence of the surface film produced on copper by polishing, exhibited by George Thomas Beilby.
34. Phenomena of plant breeding, exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution.
35. Preparations showing the urticating apparatus in Porthesia similis (Gold tail moth), exhibited by Harry Eltirngham.
36. A family of Papilio Dardanus bred by Mr. W. A. Lamborn, near Lagos, South Nigeria, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
37. Mimicry in the forest butterflies of Uganda, exhibited by Clare Aveling Wiggins.
38. Families of Papilio Dardanus bred at Chirinda, Gazaland, South East Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], exhibited by Charles Francis Massy Swynnerton.
39. Lower canine tooth of the Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus dawsonii), exhibited by Charles Dawson.
40. A restoration of the Piltdown skull (Eoanthropus dawsonii), exhibited by William Plane Pycraft.
41. A collection of flint implements from the surface soil of Hampshire of the kind usually called Neolithic Celts, exhibited by William Dale.
42. Palaeolithic engraving of a horse on a bone from Sherborne, Dorset, exhibited by Robert Elliot Steel.
43. 'Paper coal' from the coal measures of Central Russia, exhibited by Wilfred Norman Edwards.
44. Bathynella natans, a crustacean of the order Anaspidacea, exhibited by William Thomas Calman.
45. Parasites: new or in new hosts, exhibited by Henry George Plimmer.
Ground Floor (Secretaries' Room):
46. Experimental apparatus for illustrating mechanical viscosity and the shearing stress due to eddy formation in fluids, experimental apparatus for illustrating the relation between surface friction of fluids and convection of heat by them, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory (Thomas Ernest Stanton).
47. Photographic record of the variations in the horizontal intensity of the Earth's magnetic field at the National Physical Laboratory, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory (Frank Edward Smith).
48. Lecture apparatus to illustrate the form of wave produced by a combination of two or more simple harmonic waves, exhibited by Mr. C. J. Woodward.
Archives Room:
49. An apparatus for the production of stationary vibrations on strings, loaded and unloaded, exhibited by John Ambrose Fleming.
50. Chemical injectors, exhibited by Richard Clere Parsons.
51. Chain apparatus for the approximate measurement of logarithmic and hyperbolic functions, exhibited by Rollo Appleyard.
52. The polyscope, exhibited by Alexander William Bickerton.
Meeting Room:
The following demonstrations will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
53. The Percy Sladen Expedition to Brazil 1913, exhibited by James Peter Hill.
At 10.45 o'clock.
54. The application of gyroscopes to the three systems of locomotion: to the locomotion on land, on sea and in air, exhibited by Pyotr Petrovich Schilowsky.
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