| 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 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'. The Society's coat of arms is printed in red on the title page.
Room 1:
1. Instrument for the projection of coloured scenes and patterns, exhibited by Messrs. Adam Hilger Limited.
2. The heat production of muscle, exhibited by Archibald Vivian Hill.
3. Models of lobed equidimensional figures and solids (the Metrology Department), the National Physical Laboratory.
4. The reproductive cycles of the mole, grey squirrel, hedgehog and stoat, exhibited by Alan Sterling Parkes.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
The Mace of the Royal Society. Presented by King Charles II in 1663.
5. At the sign of the hexagon. Exhibits illustrating the origins and development of visual colour, exhibited by Henry Edward Armstrong.
6. Pure substances in the group of fat-soluble vitamins A and D, exhibited by the British Drug Houses Limited.
7. Crystalline vitamin D (Mr. F. A. [Frederick Anderton] Askew, Miss H. M. [Hilda Margaret] Bruce, Dr. R. K. [Robert Kenneth] Callow, Mr. J. St. L. Philpot, and Mr. T. A. [Thomas Arthur] Webster), exhibited by the National Institute for Medical Research.
8. The measurement of the surface tension of a very small quantity of liquid, exhibited by Allan Ferguson and Mr. S. J. Kennedy.
9. Specular reflection in coloured lights from an etched metal surface (Dr. J. L. [John Leslie] Haughton), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
Room 3:
10. Origin of garden Petunias, specimens and photographs of giant senecios from the high mountains of East Africa (Mr. A. D. [Arthur Disbrowe] Cotton), exhibited by Arthur William Hill, the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
11. Pyrites nodules 'thunderbolts' from the chalk (Mr. F. A. [Frederick Allen] Bannister), exhibited by the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History).
12. The origin and variability of the garden Dahlia (Mr. W. J. C. [William John Cooper] Lawrence), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institute.
13. Some physical properties of soil particles and of flour doughs (Dr. B. A. [Bernard Augustus] Keen and staff of Soil Physics Department), exhibited by Rothamsted Experimental Station.
14. Liquid hydrogen, exhibited by Pyotr Kapitza and John Douglas Cockcroft.
15. Pleistocene Dinotherium (Mr. A. T. [Arthur Tindell] Hopwood), exhibited by the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
16. Nothosaurus reptiles from Lombardy (Dr. W. E. [William Elgin] Swinton), exhibited by the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
Room 4 (Principal Library):
17. Photographs showing the effects of 'shock-waves' on explosion flames and the phenomenon of 'spin' in detonation of gaseous media, exhibited by William Arthur Bone and Mr. R. P. Fraser.
18. Neon-mercury hot cathode luminous tube, exhibited by the British Thomson-Houston Company Limited.
19. Some cathode ray devices in radiotelegraphy, exhibited by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Radio Research Station, Slough.
20. Bidwell's experiment, exhibited by Sir William Henry Bragg.
21. Meteoric iron and silica-glass from meteorite craters in Arabia (Dr. L. J. [Leonard James] Spencer), exhibited by the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History).
22. Meteoric irons from the meteorite craters in central Australia (Dr. L. J. [Leonard James] Spencer), exhibited by the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History).
23. Robert Hooke's hygroscope - the first attempt to construct an instrument to show 'The driness and moisture of ambient air', exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
24. The forces acting on drops in an electric field, exhibited by Dr. G. D. West.
25. Demonstration of the photo-conductivity of diamond (Sir R. [Robert] Robertson, Dr. J. J. [John Jacob] Fox, Dr. A. E. [Albert Edward] Martin), exhibited by the Government Laboratory.
26. Living cultures of mammalian and avian tissues vitally stained to show the structure of the cells (Dr. R. J. Ludford) (see also exhibit 33), Stroud Laboratory of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
27. High speed automatic counting by means of thyratrons, exhibited by Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams.
28. Steel and alloys including some recent applications of special steel alloys, exhibited by Sir Robert Hadfield.
29. Origin of the Oenothera type of mutation (Mrs. Eva Richardson Sansome), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institute.
30. New facts bearing on the relations of dominant and recessive allelomorphs in Pisum sativum (Miss Caroline Pellew), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institute.
31. Models illustrating the remarkable 'Rhynchoteuthion' stage in the development of the Ommatostrephid squids (Cephalopoda decapoda) (based on specimens obtained by Dr. W. [Charles William] Beebe off the Galapagos Islands (Mr. G. C. [Guy Cole] Robson), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
32. Structural diversity in Charadriine genera correlated with similarity of colour pattern (Mr. P. R. [Percy Roycroft] Lowe), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
33. Tissue cultures of Salamandra maculosa (Dr. R. J. Ludford), the living cell and the demonstration of its structure by fixation and staining, exhibited by the Laboratories of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
34. Plasmodium ovale Stephens, a new species of human malaria parasite from Africa, exhibited by Colonel Sydney Price James.
35. Distribution and changes in habit and structure in the transparent Burnet moth Zygaena purpuralis, exhibited by Humphrey Robert Hewer.
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