| 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. The optical maser, exhibited by Dr. J.M. Burch, Mr. J.W.C. Gates and Mr. R.W.E. Cook, National Physical Laboratory, Middlesex.
2. 'Organised elements' in the Orgueil meteorite, exhibited by Dr. M.H. Hey and Mr. R. Ross, British Museum (Natural History).
3. Progress towards the cultivation of the leprosy bacillus, exhibited by Dr. K.R. Chatterjee, Miss Celia Fildes, Dr. P. D'Arcy Hart, Dr. R.W.J. Rees and Dr. R.C. Valentine, National Institute for Medical Research, London.
Room 2:
4. An automatic porometer for recording stomatal movements on four separate leaves, exhibited by Professor Oscar Victor Sayer Heath and Dr. T.A. Mansfield, University of Reading Horticultural Research Laboratories.
5. The Royal Society Expedition to North Borneo 1961, exhibited by Mr. G.P. Askew, Wye College, Kent, and Mr. Edred John Henry Corner, Botany School, University of Cambridge.
6. Recent research on trachoma, exhibited by Dr. L.H. Collier, Mrs. Shiona Sowa, Mr. J. Sowa and Dr. W. Blyth, M.R.C. Trachoma Research Unit, and Dr. J.A. Armstrong, Dr. R.C. Valentine, Miss Celia Fildes and Dr. Janet S.F. Niven, National Institute for Medical Research, London.
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.
Gifts received on the occasion of the Tercentenary and a selection of the Tercentanary congratulatory addresses.
Room 4:
7. Investigation into oscillation of overhead line conductors, exhibited by Mr. D.A. Davis, Mr. D.W. Richards and Mr. R.A. Scriven, Central Electricity Generating Board, London.
8. Model of roof constructed from hyperbolic paraboloid shells, exhibited by Sir John Baker, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge..
9. Stirring in a vessel by swept-plate vortex generators, exhibited by Mr. D.W. Byer, National Physical Laboratory, Middlesex.
10. Model of the carrying mechanism of a binary calculator proposed by E.W. Phillips in 1936, exhibited by the Science Museum.
11. A technique for the measurement of enzymes in single bacterial cells, exhibited by Mr. J.F. Collins, National Institute for Medical Research, London.
12. Genesis De Novo of organelles in the egg of the fern Pteridium aquilinum, exhibited by Mr. P.R. Bell, Botany Department, University College, London, and Professor Dr. K. Muhlethaler, Laboratorium fur Elektronenmikroskopie, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich.
13. The genetic code, exhibited by Dr. Francis Harry Compton Crick, Dr, Sydney Brenner, Mrs. Leslie Barnett, Dr. Richard Watts-Tobin and Dr. R. Schulman, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.
Room 5:
14. Basic studies of the mechanisms associated with defects and dislocations in uranium and uranium-oxide, focussed collisions in radiation damage processes, and ductility and fracture processes in ionic solids, exhibited by Dr. F.J.P. Clarke, Dr. M.J. Makin and Mr. M.W. Thompson, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell.
15. The field ion microscope, exhibited by Dr. D.G. Brandon, Mr. B. Ralph, Mr. M.J. Southon and Mr. M. Wald, Department of Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, and Dr. D.W. Bassett, National Chemical Laboratory, Middlesex.
16. Spark chamber hodoscope, exhibited by the Nuclear Physics Group, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford.
17. Ions in flames, exhibited by Dr. Felix Jiri Weinberg, Mr. J. Lawton, Mr. K.G. Payne, and Mr. F.J. Ward, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology, Imperial College, London.
18. Model of a random rigid sphere assembly, indicating contacts and near contacts, exhibited by Professor John Desmond Bernal, Mr. J. Mason, Miss S. King and Mr. K.R. Knight, Department of Physics, Birkbeck College, London.
19. Deep cored boreholes at Wilkesley, Cheshire, and Witney, Oxford, exhibited by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Geological Survey of Great Britain.
20. Complementation in gene action in relation to gene structure, exhibited by Professor David Guthrie Catcheside and Dr. V.W. Woodward, Department of Microbiology, University of Birmingham, and Dr. John Robert Stanley Fincham, John Innes Institute, Hertfordshire.
21. The NPL Mekometer, exhibited by Dr. K.D. Froome and Mr. R.H. Bradsell, National Physical Laboratory.
22. An investigation into the 'weaving' oscillations of a rigid trolley having four coned wheels, exhibited by Professor Richard Evelyn Donohue Bishop, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College, London.
23. A stage in the formation of air-water froths, exhibited by Mr. J. Rennie and Mr. W. Smith, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Warren Spring Laboratory.
24. Fuel cell research, exhibited by Shell Research Limited, Chloride Electrical Storage Limited, Energy Conversion Limited and the Central Electricity Generating Board.
Room 6:
25. The offshore fauna of the English Channel, exhibited by Mr. N.A. Holme, Marine Biological Association, Plymouth.
26. An apparatus for the measurement of the ground reaction from the feet of a small animal, exhibited by Dr. R.H.J. Brown, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.
27. Plant cell walls: their structure and composition during growth, exhibited by Dr. Donald Henry Northcote, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.
Meeting Room:
The following film will be shown at 9.10, 9.50 and 10.30 p.m.: -
Electron microscopy, exhibited by the Associated Electrical Industries Limited Film Unit, produced by Michael Clarke, directed by Michael Crosfield, photography by Ron Bicker. |