| 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 the Meeting Room. The programme commences with a note on kinematograph films taking place during the evening and the catalogue of exhibits begins with a disclaimer: 'The descriptions of Exhibits in this Catalogue are supplied by the Exhibitors, who alone are responsible for their accuracy'.
1. Model showing the distribution of globular star clusters according to Shapley (Scale: 100,000 light years to one foot), exhibited by the Science Museum.
Room 1:
2. Visual examination of airflow past models (Mr. L. F. G. Simmons), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
3. Microscopic measurements of the construction and size of small particles (e.g., particles of opal glass) (Mr. C. Dunbar, Mr. J. S. Preston, and Mr. R. E. C. Dorling), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
4. Double interferometer used in the construction of the Williams Reflection Echelon, Siegbahm vacuum x-ray spectrograph, cubic crystal analyser, exhibited by Messrs. Adam Hilger Limited.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
The Mace of the Royal Society. Presented by King Charles II in 1663.
5. Kalanchoe species from Madagascar, Aesculus indica, exhibited by Arthur William Hill, the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
6. The causative organism in infectious Ectromelia, exhibited by Joseph Edwin Barnard.
7. Biological studies of the Death watch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum, De G.), exhibited by the Forest Products Research Laboratory.
Room 3:
8. Non-inflammable film and colour photography (Mr. S. R. [Sydney Renoden] Wycherley and Mr. T. [Thomas] Thorne Baker, members of Technical Staff), exhibited by Messrs. Spicers Limited.
9. Living marine crustaceans from Plymouth and district, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
10. Lens interferograms (Mr. T. Smith and Dr. J. S. Anderson), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
11. Corrosion and protection of metals, exhibited by the Director, Chemical Research Laboratory, Teddington.
12. Effects produced when liquid jets of low velocity fall on a barrier, exhibited by James H. Brinkworth.
13. Generation of short wireless waves (lambda = 6 to 30 cms) by means of a mercury vapour tube the main oscillator being tuned to 3-6 metres, exhibited by William Ewart Williams.
14. Some research apparatus used in the Research Department of Messrs. Brunner Mond & Company Limited, exhibited by the Imperial Chemical Industries Limited.
15. Bog butter, exhibited by Alexander Scott and Harold James Plenderleith.
16. Flow of glass in glass melting tank, convection currents in gas-filled lamps, exhibited by the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company Limited, Wembley.
17. Cellulose-film sections of fossil plants, exhibited by Herbert Duerden.
18. Small vertical wind tunnel with model aeroplanes spinning in free flight, exhibited by the Directorate of Scientific Research, Air Ministry.
19. An automatic projection microscope, exhibited by Hamilton Hartridge.
20. Exhibit of Faraday's 'Steel and Alloys' (1819-1824), exhibited by Sir Robert Hadfield.
21. Chimaeras in Pelargonium, exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution.
22. Casts and the fossil remains of the Peking skull and its component parts, fossil remains of the Taunge Ape, exhibited by Grafton Elliot Smith.
23. Fuzed quartz mirrors, exhibited by the Thermal Syndicate Limited, Wallsend-on-Tyne.
24. Stereomicrographs of insects and insect fossils (Mr. J. F. [John Frederick] Marshall and Mr. J. [John] Staley), exhibited by the British Mosquito Control Institute, Hayling Island, Hampshire.
25. Fossil (Diptera) from the Oliogocene freshwater formation of the Isle of Wight, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
26. The development and regeneration in vitro of Periosteal bones (Dr, H. B. [Honor Bridget] Fell), exhibited by the Strangeways Research Laboratory.
27. Models of oceanic fishes (Mr. J. R. [John Roxborough] Norman), oceanic fishes stained and cleared by the Schulze method (Miss Ethelwynn Trewavas), red varieties of green beetles (Mr. C. J. Arrow [e.g. Charles Joseph Gahan?]), pseudo-meteorite from Hang-chow, China (Dr. L. J. [Leonard James] Spencer), a barnacle (Alepsis pacifica) attached to a jelly-fish (Cyanea annaskala) (Dr. Isabella Gordon), exhibited by the Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology.
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