| 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. The Royal Society coat of arms is printed in red on the title page. The programme commences with a pasted-in list of the Society's portrait collection, at this time consisting of forty-five works of art on display, listed by location.
Room 1:
1. A new arrangement of apparatus for the spark photography of bullets in flight, exhibited by the Research Department, Woolwich.
2. Some typical applications of the thermal-conductivity method of gas analysis, recording accelerometer for measuring accelerations of motor vehicles, railway coaches, lifts, aeroplanes, &c., exhibited by the Cambridge Instrument Company Limited.
3. The earliest telescope in England, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
4. Illustrations to the early history of physical instruments, exhibited by Edward Neville da Costa Andrade.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
The Mace of the Royal Society. Presented by King Charles II in 1663.
Room 3:
5. Early locomotive engines 1812-1829 [six models], exhibited by the Science Museum.
6. Replica of an early Egyptian astronomical instrument, exhibited by the Science Museum.
7. Instruments and apparatus of Sir William Herschel, instruments and apparatus of Sir John Herschel, exhibited by the Science Museum.
8. The x-ray analysis of organic crystals, exhibited by Sir William Henry Bragg.
9. Telephotographs, exhibited by the International Western Union Company.
Room 4:
10. The free pendulum astronomical regulator, the Sun-clock, exhibited by Frank Hope-Jones.
11. Gyroscopic tops, exhibited by James Gordon Gray.
12. Physical and metrological apparatus, exhibited by Messrs. Adam Hilger Limited.
13. A miner's electric lamp to indicate and measure firedamp, exhibited by William Mundell Thornton.
14. Examples of electro-deposition, low impedance thermionic valves, exhibited by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company Limited.
15. Root-cuttings and plant-chimaeras in Pelargonium, C. A. Jorgensen's graft hybrids made from tomato and other species of Solarum by Winkler's method, exhibited by William Bateson and Mr. R. J. Chittenden (The John Innes Horticultural Institution).
16. Dr. Hooke's microscope and a telescope by the same maker - most probably by Cocks circa 1670, exhibited by Reginald S. Clay and Thomas H. Court.
17. Daily measurements of the ultra-violet radiation of sunlight, exhibited by Leonard Hill.
18. The inoculation of Lucerne with nitrogen fixing bacteria (Mr. H. G. [Henry Gerard] Thornton and Prof. N. [Nagendra] Gangulee), exhibited by Rothamsted Experimental Station.
19. Metal crystals and micro-structures (Dr. [Walter] Roisenhain), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
20. Guild colorimeter for fundamental investigations in colour vision (Mr. T. Smith), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
21. Early compasses, exhibited by the Admiralty Compass Observatory.
22. The 'Capillator' method for the colorimetric determination of hydrogen ion concentration, exhibited by the British Drug House Limited.
23. Original reflecting telescope of Sir Isaac Newton made with his own hands in 1671, Huygens' object glasses, memorial of Flamsteed, exhibited by the Royal Society.
24. Photographs in natural colours taken 30 years ago, exhibited by John Joly.
25. Atmospheric impurities, exhibited by John Switzer Owens.
26. Ferrous metallurgy, exhibited by the Brown-Firth Research Laboratories.
27. The development of the [calcareous] test in the Sea urchin (Echinus miliaris), exhibited by Miss Isabella Gordon.
28. Oceanic angler fishes (Mr. C. [Charles] Tate Regan), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
29. Specimens of the fruits and seeds of the earliest-known fruit-bearing plants, exhibited by Hugh Hamshaw Thomas.
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