| 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 a lecture taking place at a specific time during the evening.
Room 1 (Officers' Room):
1. Gravity torsion balance, exhibited by the Science Museum.
2. Collision experiment of two steel spheres, algebraic gyroscope curves in three branches, exhibited by Sir George Hadcock and Sir George Greenhill.
3. Photographs of the partial eclipse of the Sun, 8 April, photographs of sun spots, orbits of double stars, exhibited by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
4. Astronomical photographs and drawings from Stonyhurst College Observatory, exhibited by Aloysius Laurence Cortie.
5. A new form of astronomical model designed for educational purposes, exhibited by William Wilson.
Room 2 (Council Room):
6. Abnormal development of lime-tree branches due to the presence of Misteltoe (Viscum album Linn.), Loranthus pentandrus Linn., on Eugenia grandis Linn., Singapore, deformed branch of a tree from Guatemala, Loranthus longiflorus Desr., showing the peculiar attachment to the host, exhibited by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
7. Apparatus and specimens used in research on the influence of low temperatures on the magnetic properties of alloys of iron with nickel and manganese, exhibited by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield and Herman Robert Woltjer.
Room 3 (Old Council Room):
8. Portable cotton-sorting mechanism, exhibited by William Lawrence Balls.
9. Application of cold-storage and gas-storage to English apples, exhibited by Franklin Kidd.
10. Needham's pulsator system of speed measurement and control, exhibited by Messrs. Evershed and Vignoles Limited.
11. An attempt to reach high instantaneous pressure by the collapse of a hollow sphere of lead under external pressure suddenly applied by explosive, exhibited by Sir Charles Algernon Parsons and Stanley Smith Cook.
12. Photographs of absorption spectra of alkaloids, exhibited by Sir James Johnston Dobbie and John Jacob Fox.
13. The world map before and after Magellan's voyage, exhibited by the Royal Geographical Society.
14. Some questionable fossils, exhibited by Francis Arthur Bather.
15. A series of ochreous flint implements, cores and flakes, of early Chellian (Palaeolithic age) from the base of the Cromer Forest Bed deposits, exhibited by James Reid Moir.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
16. The microscopic appearance of animal tissues in ultra-violet light, exhibited by Joseph Edward Barnard.
17. Freeman precision automatic temperature control, exhibited by British Oil and Fuel Conservation Limited.
18. Meteorological instruments, exhibited by Messrs. Negretti and Zambra.
19. Relay for breaking moderately large electric currents (Dr. Guy Barr), standard optical pyrometer (Dr. Kaye and Dr. Griffiths), various types of hygrometers (Dr. Griffiths and Mr. Schofield), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
20. Preparations showing various aspects of Acarine disease in hive bees, exhibited by John Rennie.
21. The original portrait of Galileo by D. Tintoretto in oil painted about 1605-07 when Galileo was from 41 to 43 years of age, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
22. Telephone transmission measuring apparatus, exhibited by the Western Electric Company Limited.
23. Pinhole photographs of the Coolidge radiator tube and photographs illustrating protection in the x-ray examination of materials, exhibited by the Radiological Branch, Research Department, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
24. Recording Kata-thermometer, exhibited by Leonard Hill.
25. Cloud expansion apparatus for continuous determination of alpha, beta and x-rays, exhibited by the Cambridge and Paul Instrument Company Limited.
26. Liquid oxygen vaporizer, exhibited by Ernest Howard Griffiths.
27. The Davis-Pletts slide rule, exhibited by John St. Vincent Pletts.
28. The protozoan fauna of the soil, exhibited by the Protozoological Laboratory, Rothamsted Experiment Station, Harpenden.
29. Some remarkable gastropod larvae (Echinospira), exhibited by Walter Garstang.
30. Reconstruction models and drawings made by Dr. F. J. Wyeth illustrating the development of the auditory apparatus and adjacent structures in the New Zealand Tuatara (Sphenodon), exhibited by the Zoological Department, King's College (University of London).
31. Variegated prothallia of a fern, exhibited by William Bateson.
32. Fossil fishes from the Old Red Sandstone of Shetland, exhibited by Arthur Smith Woodward.
33. Abraxus grossulariata (the Magpie or Currant moth) and its varieties showing mode of inheritance, exhibited by the Hon. H. Onslow.
34. Cytological preparations (a) Golgi apparatus (b) polar body Ornithorhynchus egg (c) 'Anello cromatico' Dysticus (Dr. [James Bronte] Gatenby), sections and photographs of teeth of fossil mammalia (Mr. J. T. Carter), models of the brain in marsupial embryos (Prof. [James Peter] Hill and Dr. K. M. Watson), exhibited by the Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, University College (James Peter Hill).
35. Life history of the common eel (Mr. C. [Charles] Tate Regan), string of egg-capsules of a gastropod mollusc (Busycon perversum) from Florida (Mr. G. C. [Guy Coburn] Robson), cluster of eggs of a prosobranch mollusc (Vermiculus spiritus) from Bermuda (Mr. G. C. Robson), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
36. Effects of pineal gland administration on the pigment cells of tadpoles (Mr. L. T. [Lancelot Thomas] Hogben), embryonic calcareous structures of the lantern of the sea-urchin Echinus miliaris (Mr. [D. W. ]Devanesen), the spermatogenesis of the louse Pediculus corporis (Mr. H. G. Cannon), exhibited by the Zoological Laboratory, Imperial College of Science, South Kensington S.W.
Ground Floor: Committee Room (Corridor):
37. Latest form of the Optophone, exhibited by Edmund Ernest Fournier d'Albe.
Secretaries' Room:
38. Meteorological instruments and records, exhibited by the Meteorological Office.
39. Radio-telegraphic direction finding apparatus (Mr. R. L. Smith-Rose), resistance alloy 'Omal' for electrical standards (Dr. W. [Walter] Rosenhain, Mr. S. W. Melsom and Mr. S. L. [Sidney L.] Archbutt), standard resistance 0.01 Ohm for 200 amperes (Mr. S. W. Melsom and Mr. H. C. Booth), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
Meeting Room:
Lecture -
At 9.30 o'clock.
Primitive races in Uganda, exhibited by Rev. John Roscoe.
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