| 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 and Meeting Room. Commencing with notes that guests would be received by the President [Howard Florey], that a film would be shown during the evening and an acknowledgement that 'By the courtesy of the President and Council of the Geological Society, their rooms have been opened for this occasion'. 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. Impact on tubular structures, exhibited by the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol.
2. Ecological genetics of cyanogenesis in the plant lotus corniculatus, exhibited by Mr. D.A. Jones, Genetic Laboratories, Department of Zoology, University Museum, Oxford.
3. The Royal Society Expedition to Southern Chile 1958-59, exhibited by Dr. E.J. Godley, D.S.I.R., New Zealand, Dr. M.W. Holdgate, Zoology Department, University of Durham, Professor G.A. Knox, Canterbury University, New Zealand, Dr. G. Kuschel, Universidad de Chile, Dr. W.A. Watters, Geological Survey, New Zealand.
Room 2:
4. A protective effect of radiation against damage by further radiation, exhibited by Dr. R. Davies, Wantage Research Laboratory, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Wantage, Berkshire.
5. An exhibit to mark the centenary of the birth on 20 June 1861 of Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, O.M. President of the Royal Society (1930-1935), exhibited by Professor John Yudkin, Queen Elizabeth College, London.
6. Research on combustion and power generation from combustion, exhibited by Professor M.W. Thring, Department of Fuel Technology and Chemical Engineering, Sheffield University.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
The Mace of the Royal Society presented by King Charles II in 1663.
The Charter Book of the Royal Society which contains the signatures of the Royal Patrons and of the Fellows of the Society.
Room 4:
7. Graphite science and technology, exhibited by Professor Alfred Rene Jean Paul Ubbelohde, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology, Imperial College, London.
8. The root nodules of leguminous and other plants, exhibited by Dr. Philip Sadler Nutman, Rothamsted Experimental Station and the Royal Botanic Gardend, Kew.
Room 5:
Gifts received on the occasion of the Tercentenary and a selection of the Tercentanary congratulatory addresses.
9. Demonstration model of the Jacquard mechanism, exhibited by the Science Museum.
10. Magnetotropism in plants, exhibited by Professor L.J. Audus and Miss June Whish, Bedford College, London.
11. The automatic identification of printed numerals, exhibited by Dr. M.B. Clowes and Mr. J.R. Parkes, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington.
12. Biological calcification from ciliates to cetaceans, exhibited by Dr. F.G.E. Pautard, Department of Biomolecular Structure, University of Leeds.
13. Queen substance, a honeybee pheromone, its function, isolation and synthesis, exhibited by Dr. C.G. Butler, Rothamsted Experimantal Station, Harpenden, Dr. Robert Kenneth Callow and Miss N.C. Johnston, National Institute for Medical Research, London.
14. Determination of wood density variation across tree growth rings by means of beta particles, exhibited by Mr. E.H. Adams, Mr. R.F.S. Hearmon and Dr. E.W.J. Phillips, D.S.I.R. Forest Products Research Laboratory and Mr. K.H. Hallowes, D.S.I.R. Radio-isotope Applications Unit.
15. The prevention of vortex-excited oscillations of cylindrical structures, exhibited by Mr. C. Scruton and Mr. D.E. Walshe, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington.
16. The structure of bacteria flagella, exhibited by Dr. R.E. Burge and Mr. G.H. Smith, King's College, London, Dr. D. Kerridge, M.R.C. Chemical Microbiology Reesearch Unit, Cambridge, Mr. R. Horne, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, and Dr. A. Glauert, Strangeways Laboratory, Cambridge.
17. Electrolytic machining apparatus, and thin-walled copper sphere, exhibited by Professor John Fleetwood Baker, Depratment of Engineering, University of Cambridge.
18. Use of radiotransmitting pills for physiological measurements in the gastro-intestinal tract, exhibited by Mr. A.M. Connell and Dr. E.N. Rowlands, Gastro-Enterology Department, Central Middlesex Hospital, Mr. J. McCall and Mr. H.S. Woolff, National Institute for Medical Research, London.
Room 6:
19. Bottom and interstitial fauna of Eddystone shell gravel, exhibited by Mr. G.F. Spooner and Dr. T.R. Tozer, Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth.
20. Cell division in plants under the electron microscope, exhibited by Dr. B.E. Juniper, Botany School, Oxford.
21. Bradykinin, its chemistry, pharmacological actions and possible role in physiological and pathological reactions, exhibited by Dr. D.F. Elliott, Dr. R.H. Fox, Dr. S.M. Hilton, and Dr. G.P. Lewis, National Institute fro Medical Research, London.
Meeting Room:
The following film will be shown at 9.10, 9.50 and 10.30 p.m.: -
Bird movements observed on microwave radar, exhibited by Dr. E. Eastwood, Director of Research, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Limited. |