| 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 is almost identical to that of 22 July [PC/3/5/10] with some minor variations.
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. Relics of Sir Isaac Newon, model of Sir William Petty's double-bottomed boat, two chronometers used by Captain Cook and a mountain barometer used by Charles Darwin during his voyage round the world in H.M.S. 'Beagle'.
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. Alloys of iron and other elements possessing new and interesting properties including non-corrodible and non-scaling steels, exhibited by Sir Robert Hadfield.
18. Metal crystals and micro-structures (Dr. [Walter] Roisenhain), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
19. Guild colorimeter for fundamental investigations in colour vision (Mr. T. Smith), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
20. Early compasses, exhibited by the Admiralty Compass Observatory.
21. The 'Capillator' method for the colorimetric determination of hydrogen ion concentration, exhibited by the British Drug House Limited.
22. 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.
23. Photographs in natural colours taken 30 years ago, exhibited by John Joly.
24. Atmospheric impurities, exhibited by John Switzer Owens.
25. Ferrous metallurgy, exhibited by the Brown-Firth Research Laboratories.
26. Copies of some early Egyptian instruments, exhibited by the Science Museum.
27. Oceanic angler fishes (Mr. C. [Charles] Tate Regan), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
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