| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibitors at the Royal Society's annual displays at Burlington House, London, with descriptive text. With a frontispiece plan of the learned societies' apartments in Burlington House, and a historical note on Burlington House. Arranged by rooms, Rooms 1-3 and named rooms. Commencing with a note on floral exhibits, courtesy of the Director of the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, and that exhibits would be available throughout the opened rooms of the other Burlington House organisations. 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'.
Main staircase:
A stained glass window commissioned by the Royal Society to commemorate the Tercentenary, by William M. Gardiner and executed by the Whitefriars Stained Glass Studios.
Council Room, first floor:
The first Charter granted by King Charles II in 1662.
Mace of the Royal Society presented by King Charles II in 1663.
The Charter Book containing signatures of Royal Patrons and Fellows.
Items concerning the history of the Royal Society including the first Journal Book.
A selection of books lent and arranged by Professor Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, illustrating attacks made on the Royal Society.
Library, first floor:
Addresses of congratulation received on the occasion of the Tercentanary.
Royal Academy of Arts, the main galleries:
The Summer Exhibition, 1960.
The Entrance Hall:
1. Calculating machines, exhibited by Sir Gordon Sutherland, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Dr. A.D. Booth, Birkbeck College, Professor Tom Kilburn, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Manchester, Dr. Robert Allan Smith, Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern, Mr. R.W. Sutton, Services Electronic Research Laboratory, Baldock, Dr. A.M. Uttley, National Physical Laboratory and Dr. Maurice Vincent Wilkes, University Mathematical Laboratory, Cambridge.
The Diploma Galleries, Room 1:
2. Physics of the Earth, ocean and atmosphere, exhibited by Dr. George Edward Raven Deacon and Dr. H.F.P Herdman, National Institute of Oceanography, Wormley, and Mr. H.H. Lamb, the Meteorological Office.
3. Exploration by radio, exhibited by Dr. B.H. Briggs and Professor Martin Ryle, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, Professor William John Granville Beynon, Department of Physics, University College of Wales, and Professor Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, Lower Withington, Macclesfield.
4. Fundamental particles, exhibited by Professor Clifford Charles Butler, Department of Physics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.
5. Solvent extraction of plutonium, exhibited by Sir Christopher Hinton, Central Electricity Generating Board, and Dr. Robert Spence, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell.
6. Refined chemical separation, exhibited by Sir Harry Melville, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, in collaboration with the National Chemical Laboratory, Teddington, and the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill.
Room 2:
7. Metals, exhibited by Professor Alan Howard Cottrell and Mr. J. Nutting, Department of Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, and Dr. P.B. Hirsch, Professor Alfred Brian Pippard, Dr. D. Schoenberg and Dr. M.J. Whelan, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
8. The molecular structure of biological systems, exhibited by Sir Lawrence Bragg, Royal Institution, London and fourteen others [including Sydney Brenner, Francis Crick. Max Perutz, John Kendrew, Aaron Klug, and Fred Sanger].
9. Abnormal haemoglobins and human chromosomes, exhibited by Dr. Robert Russell Race, Medical Research Council, Lister Institute, London, Dr. John A. Hunt, Medical Research Council Unit for Molecular Biology, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, and Professor Lionel Sharples Penrose, Galton Laboratory, University College, London.
10. Natural selection, exhibited by Professor Kenneth Mather, Department of Genetics, The University, Birmingham, Dr. A.C. Allison, National Institute for Medical Research, London, Dr. J.L. Crosby, Department of Botany, the University, Durham, and Dr. H.B.D. Kettlewell, Genetics Laboratory, Oxford University.
11. Microbial genetics, exhibited by Professor David Guthrie Catcheside, Department of Microbiology, the University, Birmingham, Dr. John Robert Stanley Fincham, John Innes Horticultural Institute, Bayfordbury, Dr. William Hayes, Medical Research Council Microbial Genetics Research Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London, Professor G. Portecorvo, Department of Genetics, University of Glasgow, and Professor J.A. Roper, Department of Genetics, the University, Sheffield.
Room 3:
12. Antibiotics, exhibited by Sir Howard Florey, William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, and Dr. Ernest Lester Smith, Glaxo Laboratories Limited, Greenford.
13. Vitamins, exhibited by Dr. Ernest Lester Smith, Glaxo Laboratories Limited, Greenford, Professor Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, Chemical Crystallography Laboratory, Oxford University, Dr. S.K. Kon and Dr. Marie Coates, Department of Nutrition, National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, near Reading, Dr. Hedley Ralph Marston, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, University of Adelaide, Australia, and Professor Richard Alan Morton, Department of Biochemistry, University of Liverpool.
14. Electrophysiology, exhibited by Professor Bernard Katz, Department of Biophysics, University College, London, Dr. Peter Christopher Caldwell, Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association, Professor Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Dr. Richard Darwin Keynes, Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge and Dr. Ricardo Miledi, Department of Biophysics, University College, London.
15. Physiological and biochemical aspects of plant growth, exhibited by Dr. Percy Wragg Brian, Akers Research Laboratory, I.C.I. Limited, The Frythe, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, Professork H.E. Street, Department of Botany, University College of Swansea, and Professor Ralph Louis Wain, Wye College near Ashford, Kent.
Portraits of early Fellows of the Royal Society, exhibited by the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery, the Governor of Hudson's Bay Company, and the Royal Society.
The Linnean Society of London, Library, first floor:
A selection from the natural history collections, books, manuscripts letters and relics of Carl von Linne and other eighteenth and nineteenth century naturalists.
The Royal Astronomical Society, Libraries, first floor:
An exhibition of books belonging to the Society, with photographs and instruments from observatories and astronomical institutions.
The Society of Antiquaries of London, Council Room, ground floor:
Objects connected with the history and achievements of the Society.
Meeting Room, ground floor:
Halley Bay, a colour film from the Royal Society Antarctic Expedition. With commentary by Surgeon Commander David Dalgliesh, and a recording of the Sinfonia Antarctica played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult.
The Geological Society of London, Meeting Room, ground floor:
South from Chiloe, a film from the Royal Society Expedition to Southern Chile. With commentary by Dr. M.W. Holdgate and Mr. C.A. Ronan,
Library Annexe, first floor:
A selection from the archives of the Geological Society.
The Chemical Society, Library, second floor:
A selection of works from the historical collections of the Library. |