| 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 Meeting Room. Commencing with a note of cinema demonstrations taking place at specific times during the evening. The Royal Society coat of arms is printed in red on the title page.
Room 1:
1. Succulent plants from South Africa, exhibited by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
2. South African pelargoniums, exhibited by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
3. Genetics of ferns (Miss Andersson [Irma Andersson-Kotto]), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution.
4. Form and number of chromosomes in tulips (Mr. W. C. F. Newton), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution.
5. A cross-bred pelargonium and its root cuttings (Mr. W. [William] Bateson F.R.S.), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution.
6. Bygone methods of ignition, exhibited by Michael Grabham.
7. Bronze ceremonial crowns, exhibited by Miss Nina Frances Layard.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
The Mace of the Royal Society, presented by King Charles II in 1663.
8. Photographic views in Petra, exhibited by Alexander Kennedy.
9. Effects of boron on plant growth (Dr. W. E. [Winifred Elsie] Brenchley and Miss K. [Katherine] Warington), exhibited by Rothamsted Experimental Station.
10. Telescopes of Galileo (replicas), exhibited by the Science Museum.
Room 3:
11. Wax reconstruction models illustrating the development of the brain and its cavities in embryos of Sphenodon punctatus and the chick, exhibited by the Rev. F. J. Wyeth.
12. Teeth of fossil horses and asses, exhibited by David Meredith Seares Watson.
13. The selectivity of lightning discharges, exhibited by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited.
14. Portrait of Joseph Priestley F.R.S., in wax, in high relief, coloured as life, signed 'S. Percy, 1788', exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
15. 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.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
16. Apparatus to exhibit vortex motion of viscous liquids between two rotating cylinders, exhibited by Edward Neville da Costa Andrade and Mr. J. W. Lewis.
17. An all-metal annular-jet vacuum pump (Dr. [George William Clarkson] Kaye and Mr. Backhurst), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
18. 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.
19. Recent and fossil echinoids prepared to show internal and external test-structures, exhibited by Herbert Leader Hawkins.
20. Specimens of platino-cyanides, exhibited by John Millar Thompson.
21. 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.
22. Method of measuring ultra-violet radiation, exhibited by Albert Eidenow, Leonard Hill, and Mr. A. Webster.
23. Breeding experiments with the snail Limnaea peregra, exhibited by Captain Cyril Diver and Arthur Edwin Boycott.
24. An acoustic spectroscope, exhibited by Edmund Edward Fournier d'Albe.
25. A disc high tension battery, exhibited by Major Charles Edmund Stanley Phillips.
26. A magnetic pivot, exhibited by Major Charles Edmund Stanley Phillips.
27. Living cells growing in vitro under the influence of 100mg of radium element. The culture is enclosed in a special incubator constructed of lead for theprotection of workers, exhibited by Thomas Strangeways Pigg Strangeways, Ronald George Canti, Dr. M. Donaldson and Dr. F. G. Hopwood (working under the auspices of the Medical Research Council).
28. Cultures of fungi causing dry rot in buildings, exhibited by Percy Groom.
29. Crystalline structures of metal foils, exhibited by Sir William Henry Bragg.
30. Post-larval stages in the development of the common irregular urchin (Echinocardium cordatum), exhibited by Ernest William MacBride.
31. Abnormal tadpoles showing the effects of deficiency of oxygen on early development, exhibited by Madame [Elvine Mathilde] Piiper.
32. Sections illustrating the development of a primitive crustacean, exhibited by Herbert Graham Cannon.
33. The cytology of the eggs of the earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris), exhibited by Mr. L. A. Harvey.
34. On the development of the accessory branchial apparatus in some Indian fishes, exhibited by Mr. B. K. Das.
35. A remarkable new type of crustacea, exhibited by Theodore Monod.
36. The growth of Tortricid larvae, exhibited by Dr. R. C. Fisher.
37. Deformation of the conducting tissue in Silver firs (Abies spp.) caused by the suction of plant lice, exhibited by Robert Neil Chrystal.
38. Abyssal and pelagic cephalopoda from South African waters, exhibited by Guy Coburn Robson.
39. Tissue cultures in vitro showing the effects of x-rays upon cell division, exhibited by Thomas Strangeways Pigg Strangeways.
40. 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.
Ground Floor Meeting Room:
Cinematograph demonstration.
At 9.30 and 10.15.
Recent developments in high-speed cinematography, exhibited by Lucien Bull, Marey Institute, Paris.
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