| 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, Hall and Meeting Room. The programme commences with a note on demonstrations 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'.
Room 1:
1. Quantitative measurement of heat transfer by refraction of light, exhibited by Cecil Howard Lander, Margaret Fishenden and Owen Alfred Saunders.
2. Statistical observations of turbulence in airflow in a pipe and instantaneous velocity distribution over the critical Reynolds number (Dr. H. C. H. [Hebbebt Charles Henry] Townend), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
3. Recent advances in low voltage cathode ray oscillograph tubes and equipment and of vacuum tube oscillators, exhibited by Standard Telephone and Cables Limited.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
The Mace of the Royal Society. Presented by King Charles II in 1663.
4. Witch broom of silver fir, exhibited by Arthur William Hill, the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
5. Instruments for clinical and biochemical purposes, specimens of optical work, a new series of fine mechanical adjustments for research purposes, photographs taken with a Williams reflection echelon taken by and exhibited by kind permission of Mr. W. E. [William Ewart] Williams M.Sc., exhibited by Messrs. Adam Hilger Limited.
6. Some photographs of the tracks of penetrating radiation, exhibited by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett.
7. Some positive electron tracks using a neutron source, exhibited by James Chadwick, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett and Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao Occhialini.
8. Illustrating certain corrosion phenomena, a method of automatic temperature control for electric heating furnaces for 'creep' testing apparatus showing control within + or - 0.05 degrees centigrade, close 'fits' of plug and ring, exhibited by the Brown-Firth Research Laboratories.
9. The action of nitrates in preventing the infection of root-hairs by bacterium radicicola (Dr. H. G. Thornton), exhibited by the Rothamsted Experimental Station.
10. Reversion of cultivated land to natural vegetation (Dr, Winifred E. Brenchley and Miss Katherine Warington), exhibited by the Rothamsted Experimental Station.
11. Apparatus for carrying out chemical reactions up to 12,000 atmospheres, apparatus for high temperature experiment, a greaseless valve, oriented overgrowths of crystals, exhibited by Imperial Chemical Industries (Alkali) Limited.
Room 3:
12. Polychaeta of the Plymouth District, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
13. Film records of rapid movements, exhibited by Ashley Gordon Lowndes.
14. Two experiments illustrating methods of investigating the ionosphere (Radio Department), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
15. Recent developments in the production of cancer by pure compounds of known chemical constitution, exhibited by the Research Institute of the Cancer Hospital (Free).
16. Recent developments in infra-red photography, exhibited by Ilford Limited.
17. Some properties of carbonic anhydrase, exhibited by Norman Urquhart Meldrum and Francis John Worsley Roughton.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
18. A new distant control and indicating mechanism for transmitting exact motion to a distance, exhibited by Henry Selby Hele-Shaw and Thomas Edward Beacham.
19. The virus of canary pox, exhibited by Joseph Edwin Barnard and Frank Macfarlane Burnet (the National Institute for Medical Research).
20. Bubbling valve, exhibited by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company.
21. The 'Osira' discharge lamp, exhibited by the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company.
22. Bi-colour water indicator, Messrs. Dewrance and Company.
23. Continuous plankton recorder, exhibited by Alister Clavering Hardy.
24. Insect distribution, exhibited by Alister Clavering Hardy and Mr. P. S. Milne.
25. 'The Royal Society Thermometer' the earliest standard thermometer in England, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
26. Fatigue testing machine (for wire) in operation, exhibited by Mr. J. D. Brunton, Bernard Parker Haigh and Thomas S. Roberston.
27. A model to illustrate the classical motion of a diatomic rotator with two degrees of freedom, exhibited by Dr. L. Simons and Mr. E. H. Smart.
28. Apparatus for rapid study of ultra-violet absorption spectra (Mr. J. St. L. Philpot, Dr. E. H. J. [Edgar Hermann Joseph] Schuster and Mr. F. A. [Frederick Anderton] Askew.
29. Photographs showing influences of strong electrical and magnetic fields upon the phenomenon of 'spin' in gaseous detonations (Professor W. A. Bone, and Messrs. R. P. Fraser and W. H. Wheeler), explosions of C2H2+O2+2 H2 media in glass bulbs (Professor W. A. Bone, Dr. D. T. A. Townend and Mr. L. E. Outridge), exhibited by William Arthur Bone.
30. Specimens of metallurgical interest, mainly ferrous, including a large series of tensile and other tests at the temperature of liquid hydrogen (-252.8 degrees centigrade), exhibited by Sir Robert Hadfield.
31. Western Electric 2-A artificial larynx, exhibited by the Western Electric Company.
32. Single crystal of meteoric iron (Dr. L. J. [Leonard James] Spencer), exhibited by the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History).
33. Series of diffraction patterns to show the decrease produced by polishing in the size of the crystals in a metal surface, exhibited by Mr. R. C. French.
34. Sir Richard Threlfall's automatic microtome, exhibited by the Science Museum.
35. The measuring instruments used by English astronomers of the fourteenth century, exhibited by Robert William Theodore Gunther.
36. The crystallisation of ammonium sulphate and the effect of certain added impurities on its habit, exhibited by the Gas Light and Coke Company.
37. A dodecapodous pycnogonid (Dr. W. T. [William Thomas] Calman), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
38. Structure of hispine larvae and their spiracular devices, a tubular structure in a modified antennal segment of the males of some Chrysomelid beetles, exhibited by Samarendra Nath Maulik.
39. Early prehistoric man in East Africa (the Kanam mandible and Kanjera skulls), exhibited by Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey.
40. Fragments of fossil anthropoids from the Miocene deposits of the Victoria Nyanza Basin, exhibited by Donald G. MacInnes.
41. Birds' eggs from the Victoria Nyanza area of Kenya Colony, exhibited by Donald G. MacInnes.
42. Ben Johnson's copy of William Gilbert's 'De Magnete', John Flamsteed's copy of Vincent Wing's 'Astronomia Britannica', architect's scales to facilitate the drawing of the various orders of columns, Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, etc., exhibited by Robert Stewart Whipple.
43. The ear bones of the goldfish, exhibited by Ernest William MacBride and Mr. J. M. Watson.
44. The effects of disuse as illustrated by a stuffed specimen and a skeleton of the 'flightless cormorant' which inhabits the Galapagos Islands, exhibited by Ernest William MacBride.
45. New studies on varicella. Demonstration of the elementary bodies in varicella and their agglutination in pure suspension by the serum of chickenpox patients, exhibited by Cleve Russell Amies, the Lister Institute, London.
Room 5:
46. Production and detection of neutrons, exhibited by James Chadwick and Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams.
Room 6 Ground Floor (End of Corridor):
47. Automatic measurement and counting of time intervals (Mr. A. Felton), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
48. Mallock equation solving machine, exhibited by the Cambridge Instrument Company.
49. Use of cathode-ray oscillograph for obtaining frequency response curves of electrical loudspeakers, etc., (Dr. A. H. Davis and Mr. N. Fleming), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
In the Hall:
50. The Liassic shark, Hydrobus lauffianus Fraas, exhibited by the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
Meeting Room:
At 9.15 and 10.15 o'clock - a lecture illustrated with lantern slides.
Recent developments in infra-red photography, exhibited by Olaf Bloch.
At 9.45 and 10.45 o'clock - a lecture illustrated with lantern slides.
The Houston Mount Everest Expedition, exhibited by Lieutenant-Colonel Latham Valentine Stewart Blacker.
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