| 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. No lantern slide displays are listed.
Room 1 (The Officers' Room):
1. Preparations illustrating the products of reactions in gels, exhibited by Emil Hatschek.
2. Specimens of Jurassic plants from Yorkshire, showing the structure of their cuticles, exhibited by Hugh Hamshaw Thomas.
3. Kinematograph films showing the developments of insects, &c., exhibited by Frederick Enock and Mr. A. S. Newman.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
4. Photographs illustrative of landslides and upheavals on the Panama Canal, exhibited by Vaughan Cornish.
5. Prehistoric paintings, exhibited by Miles Crawford Burkitt.
Room 3 (Council Room):
6. The Coolidge x-ray tube, exhibited by the British Thomson-Houston Company.
7. 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.
8. Old French colour print of Linnaeus, reproductions of portraits of Queen Caroline and Princess Augusta, specimens showing injury to trees by animals, exhibited by Sir David Prain, the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
9. An electro-mechanical movement, a mode of commutation, exhibited by William Morris Mordey.
10. Working model of a type-reading optoscope, exhibited by Edmund Edward Fournier d'Albe.
11. Wired-wireless' telegraphy on telephone lines, exhibited by Lieutenant-Colonel George Owen Squier.
12. An ichthyosaurus with skin from the Upper Lias of Wurtemburg, exhibited by Arthur Woodward Smith.
13. 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).
14. Coloured models showing resemblance between poisonous and harmless coral snakes, exhibited by Hans Friedrich Gadow.
15. Apparatus for measuring the degree of pollution of the air by smoke, exhibited by John Switzer Owens.
16. The polyscope, exhibited by Alexander William Bickerton.
17. The iridoscope, exhibited by Louis Brennan.
18. Some new surface tension phenomena and an experiment to show the structure of liquid jets, exhibited by Charles Robert Darling.
19. Living animals illustrating the Plymouth marine fauna, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
20. Instantaneous photographs on paper taken in natural colour by the polychromide system, exhibited by the Polychromide Company (The Dover Street Sudios Limited).
21. Lower canine tooth of the fossil Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus dawsonii), old silk amulets made in the form of prehistoric weapons, exhibited by Charles Dawson.
22. A restoration of the Piltdown skull (Eoanthropus dawsonii), exhibited by William Plane Pycraft.
23. A deep-sea Angler fish (Melanocetus johnsoni), exhibited by Charles Tate Regan.
24. Double tadpoles of the frog and double sea-urchins, exhibited by Ernest William MacBride and Mr. H. G. Newth.
25. A family of Papilio Dardanus bred by Mr. W. A. Lamborn, near Lagos, South Nigeria, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
26. Families of Papilio Dardanus bred at Chirinda, Gazaland, South East Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], exhibited by Charles Francis Massy Swynnerton.
27. Mimicry in the forest butterflies of Uganda, exhibited by Clare Aveling Wiggins.
28. Fertile canary hybrid, a rat of a new colour, exhibited by Miss Florence Margaret Durham.
29. Phenomena of plant breeding, exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution.
30. 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.
31. Palaeolithic engraving of a horse on a bone from Sherborne, Dorset, exhibited by Robert Elliot Steel.
32. Jewellery of Princess Sat-hathor-and, 3,400 B.C., from her tomb at Lahun, Egypt, exhibited by William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
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