| 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 Royal Society coat of arms is printed in red on the title page. The catalogue concludes 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. A simple radioactivity photometer for the determination of the integrated intensity of x-ray crystal reflections, exhibited by William Thomas Astbury.
2. Experiments on the physiology and genetics of the covered smuts of oats and barley (Mr. S. Dickenson), Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden (Department of Mycology).
3. Gibraltar skull, exhibited by Sir Arthur Keith.
4. Neanderthal skull from a Mousterian site at Devil's Tower, Gibraltar, exhibited by Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
The Mace of the Royal Society. Presented by King Charles II in 1663.
5. Hybrid Calceolarias, exhibited by Arthur William Hill, the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
6. Plaster cast of a nest of dinosaur eggs, exhibited by the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
Room 3:
7. Cytoplasmic inheritance in plants (Mr. R. J. Chittenden and Miss C. [Caroline] Pellew), production of fertile tetraploid hybrids in Digilatlis purpurea x D. ambigua (Mr. B. H. [Bertram Harry] Buxton and Mr. W. C. F. Newton, origin and behaviour of polyploids in Prunus (Mr. C. D. [Cyril Dean] Darlington), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institute.
8. 'Reversion' in oats and wheat, exhibited by Charles Leonard Huskins.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
9. Ultra-violet radiation applied to the detection of impurities in distilled water, etc., the detection and estimation of minute quantities of arsenic with the aid of ultra-violet radiation, exhibited by Mr. A. A. King.
10. Demonstration of the method of estimating flame temperature by spectrum line reversal, gas analysis apparatus utilising high-frequency vibrations (Ezer Griffiths and Mr. J. H. Awbery), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
11. Relief vegetation map of Africa (Mr. R, D'O [Ronald D'Oyley] Good), exhibited by the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History).
12. Total eclipse of the Sun. Model of the shadow near the Earth's surface. Eclipse of the Sun, 29th June 1927, working model of the progress of the Moon's shadow across England. Eclipse of the Sun, 29th June 1927, three-dimensional model of the progress of the shadow of the Moon across England (Dr. E. H. [Edwin] Rayner), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
13. The original astrological planisphere of Queen Elizabeth - circa 1560-70, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
14. A new type of electric discharge, exhibited by the British Thomson-Houston Company Limited.
15. Metallography of solid mercury (Dr. W. [Walter] Rosenhain, and Mr. A. J. Murphy), specimens of metals of high purity prepared at the National Physical Laboratory (Metallurgy Department) exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
16. Behaviour and growth of minute animals and plants drifting in the sea, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
17. Modern methods of investigating fossil Brachiopoda (Miss H. M. [Helen Marguerite] Muir-Wood and Dr. M. R. Sahni), exhibited by the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
18. Specimens illustrating special properties and applications of ferrous alloys, medallion portrait of Robert Boyle F.R.S (1627-1691), exhibited by Sir Robert Hadfield.
19. Photographs of the total solar eclipse 14th January 1926 taken at Benkoelen, Sumatra (Mr. F. J. M. [Frederick John Marrian] Stratton and Mr. C. [Charles] Davidson), exhibited by Frank Dyson, the Astronomer Royal.
20. Experimental production of a double water-vascular system in the larvae of the sea-urchin (Echinus miliaris), exhibited by Ernest William MacBride.
21. Gynandromorph butterflies produced by shock, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
22. Damage done to sheet lead by adults of the Wood wasp Sirex cyaneus (Dr. J. [James] Waterson), Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History).
23. Effect of cytotoxic sera on cancer cells and normal tissues respectively, exhibited by Thomas Lumsden.
24. Balls of fibres etc., formed by wave-action (Mr. J. R. Norman), correlation of colour with environment in mammals (Mr. M. A. C. [Martin Alistair Campbell] Hinton), some peculiarities in the blood system of Cetacea (Mr. G. R. Brook), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
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