| 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 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. Cinematic demonstration of film prepared by Dr. R. G. [Ronald George] Canti, exhibited by the Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge (see also 29).
2. Specimens illustrating the development in vitro of the mandibular skeletal tissue and limb periosteum of the embryonic fowl (Dr. H. B. [Honor Bridget] Fell and Dr. R. [Robert] Robison, Lister Institute).
3. Experiments in chicken embryos cultivated in vitro (Mr. C. H. [Conrad Hal] Waddington).
4. The repair in vitro of embryonic bones after experimental fracture (Miss J. S. F. Niven).
Room 2 (Reception Room):
5. Illuminated coloured transparent photographs of the natural vegetation of South Africa, exhibited by Dr. Illtyd Pole Evans and Mrs. Mary R. H. Pole Evans.
Room 3:
6. Pseudo-monocotyledonous seedlings of Chirita, Didymocarpus and Streptocarpus (Gesneraceae), exhibited by Arthur William Hill, the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
7. Apparatus for facsimile telegraphy, exhibited by Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Limited.
8. Photographs of specimens from the most recent excavations by Mr. Leonard Woolley at Ur of the Chaldees, exhibited by the Research Laboratory of the British Museum.
Room 4:
9. Electrical model for demonstrating the normal and ab normal heart rhythm with the aid of relaxation oscillations produced by neon tubes, exhibited by Balthasar van der Pol (Philips Lamps Limited).
10. Method of production and reproduction of sound films for talking pictures, Brownian motion, exhibited by Messrs. R. & J. Beck Limited.
11. Triboluminescence of Zinc-blende from Tsumeb, South-West Africa, exhibited by the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History) (Dr. Leonard James Spencer).
12. The Leakey-Harper drawing machine, exhibited by Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey.
13. 'His Master's Voice' film recording equipment, magnetically controlled mercury vapour relay, stroboscopic examination of cone diaphragm vibrations, electrical blackboard, exhibited by the Gramophone Company Limited.
14. Hybrids in cacti (Mr. F. W. [Frederick Whalley] Sansome), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institute.
15. A chromosome ring associated with sterility in Pisum sativum (Mrs. E. [Eva] Sansome and Miss C. [Caroline] Pellew), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institute.
16. Living anemones, hydroids & corals from Plymouth, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
17. Control of wastage in citrus and other fruits by treatment with acetaldehyde, osmotic pressures of haemoglobin and acid haematein at different hydrogen ion concentrations, exhibited by the Low Temperature Station, Cambridge.
18. Specimens illustrating special properties and applications of ferrous alloys, exhibited by Sir Robert Hadfield.
19. Virus disease in plants (Dr. J. [John] Henderson Smith), exhibited by the Rothamsted Experimental Station.
20. Infectious ectromelia. A hitherto undescribed virus disease of mice (demonstration by Captain S. R. [Stewart Rankin] Douglas and Dr. Wilson Smith of Miss J. Marchal's work), exhibited by the National Institute of Medical Research.
21. The evolution of the hydrometer in England for fiscal purposes, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
22. Cast of the Peking skull (Sinanthropus pekinensis), exhibited by Grafton Elliott Smith.
23. An early Italian globe - believed to be the only example known, exhibited by Robert Stewart Whipple.
24. Photographs of the new planet [Pluto], exhibited by the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford.
25. Single crystals and crystal bars of metals, exhibited by Sir Harold Carpenter.
26. Interspecific hybridization in Aquilegea (Mr. E. [Edgar Shannon] Anderson and Miss E. Schafer), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institute.
27. Inheritance of flower colour in the poppy (Papaver rhoeas) (Mr. J. Philp), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institute.
28. An oceanic angler-fish (Caulophryne polynema) from off Madeira (Dr. C. [Charles] Tate Regan), exhibited by the British Museum (Natural History).
29. Some effects of x-rays on tissues growing in vitro and in vivo (Miss S. F. Cox), the effect of x-rays on the growth rate of tissue in vitro (Miss S. F. Cox) some effects of homogenous x-radiation on normal and malignant tissues growing in vivo and in vitro (Mr. W. H. Lowe), exhibited by the Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge.
30. Parasitisation of the frog Phrynomerus microps by the Oligochaete worm Nais bauchiensis (Mr. H. W. [Hampton Wildman] Parker and Lieutenant-Colonel J. [John] Stephenson), model (x2) of Bathothauma lyromma Chun., a remarkable pelagic cephalopod (Mr. G. C. [Guy Cole] Robson), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
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