| 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 1-6 including the Ground Floor and Meeting Room. Commencing with a note of lectures taking place at specific times during the evening.
Room 1:
1. New methods for the exploration of bacterial disease, and for the study of the effects of treatment, exhibited by Sir Almroth Wright, Alexander Fleming and Leonard Colebrook.
2. Cultures of fungi causing dry rot in buildings, exhibited by Percy Groom.
3. Exhibition of 16 photographs [of telescopes], exhibited by Sir Howard Grubb.
4. Relation between solar activity and terrestrial magnetic disturbance (Stonyhurst College Observatory), exhibited by Aloysius Laurence Cortie.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
Mace of the Royal Society. Presented by King Charles II in 1663.
5. Crystalline structures of metal foils, exhibited by Sir William Henry Bragg.
6. Telescopes of Galileo (replicas), exhibited by the Science Museum.
7. Determination of gravity on a submarine, exhibited by the Science Museum.
Room 3:
8. Free pendulum astronomical regulator, exhibited by Frank Hope-Jones.
9. Recent and fossil echinoids prepared to show internal and external test-structures, exhibited by Herbert Leader Hawkins.
10. Eggs of the Green oak tortrix moth Tortrix viridana L. (Dr. J. W. [James Watson] Munro), exhibited by the Forestry Commission.
11. The growth of Tortricid larvae (Dr. R. C. Fisher), exhibited by the Forestry Commission.
12. Deformation of the conducting tissue in Silver firs (Abies spp.) caused by the suction of plant lice (Mr. R. N. [Robert Neil] Chrystal), exhibited by the Forestry Commission.
13. Effects of boron on plant growth (Dr. W. E. [Winifred Elsie] Brenchley and Miss K. [Katherine] Warington), exhibited by Rothamsted Experimental Station.
14. Somatic segregation in Myosotis, exhibited by Mr. R. J. [Reginald John] Chittenden.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
15. Echelon pullies, exhibited by Sir George Greenhill.
16. A simple pendulum, exhibited by Sir George Greenhill.
17. Apparatus to exhibit vortex motion of viscous liquids between two rotating cylinders, exhibited by Edward Neville da Costa Andrade and Mr. J. W. Lewis.
18. An electrical method of hardening the ends of standard gauges (Mr. Bloxham and Mr. Buckley), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
19. A method of producing an even time scale using a neon lamp for the inspection of wave-forms with the cathode ray oscillograph (demonstrated), exhibited by the International Western Electric Company.
20. Simple apparatus for the measurement of peak voltage, exhibited by John Turner MacGregor-Morris and Mr. L. E. Ryall.
21. Portrait of Joseph Priestley F.R.S., in wax, in high relief, coloured as life, signed 'S. Percy, 1788', exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
22. The original silver pocket-sundial of the Earl of Orrery (Charles Boyle 1676-1731 great-nephew of Robert Boyle) whose arms are engraved on the face of it, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
23. A new type of isothermal calorimeter, exhibited by the Explosives Branch, Research Department, Woolwich.
24. Torsionmeter, exhibited by the Cambridge Instrument Company Limited.
25. Bomb apparatus with Petavel manometer and some pressure-time curves obtained in researched upon the activation of nitrogen in carbon-monoxide air explosions at high initial pressures, exhibited by William Arthur Bone.
26. Tissue culture in vitro showing living cells in course of division, exhibited by Thomas Strangeways Pigg Strangeways.
27. Average skull contours, exhibited by Frederick Gymer Parsons.
28. Evolution of dentition in pigs (Mr. M. A. C. [Martin Alistair Campbell] Hinton), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
29. Ambicolouration in flatfishes (Mr. J. R. [John Roxborough] Norman), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
30. Radiogram of Gymnomuraena vittata (Mr. C. [Charles] Tate Regan), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
31. Abyssal and pelagic cephalopoda from South African waters (Mr. G. C. [Guy Coburn] Robson), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
32. Method of measuring ultra-violet radiation, exhibited by Albert Eidenow, Leonard Hill, and Mr. A. Webster.
33. Anatomical specimens from the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons (Mr. R. H. [Richard Higgins] Burne), exhibited by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
34. Sections illustrating the development of a primitive crustacean, exhibited by Herbert Graham Cannon.
35. Tissue cultures in vitro showing the effects of x-rays upon cell division, exhibited by Thomas Strangeways Pigg Strangeways.
36. Post-larval stages in the development of the common irregular urchin (Echinocardium cordatum) exhibited by Ernest William MacBride.
37. Pathologic cysts in the pituitary body of the common frog, exhibited by Humphrey Robert Hewer.
38. The development of the vertebra of the common gull (Larus canus), exhibited by Johannes Piiper.
39. On the development of the accessory branchial apparatus in some Indian fishes, exhibited by Mr. B. K. Das.
40. The cytology of the eggs of the earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris), exhibited by Mr. L. A. Harvey.
Room 5 Ground Floor (Corridor):
41. An all-metal annular-jet vacuum pump (Dr. [George William Clarkson] Kaye and Mr. Backhurst), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
42. Measurement of natural lighting in rooms (Mr. Taylor), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
Room 6:
43. The selectivity of lightning discharges, exhibited by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited.
44. Model showing vibration of steam turbine discs and shafts, exhibited by Gerald Stoney and Mr J. P. Chittenden of the English Electric Company Limited.
Meeting Room:
Lectures -
At 9.30 o'clock.
Modern navigational devices (with experiments), exhibited by Frank Edward Smith.
At 10.15 o'clock.
Travel and archaeology in Mesopotamia, exhibited by Reginald Campbell Thompson.
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