| 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 programme is inscribed in pencil: 'The Soiree arranged for May 1926 was cancelled because of the "General" strike.' 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. Experiments on rotation in multiphase magnetic fields, exhibited by William Morris Mordey.
2. Vector calorimeter (Mr. Guild and Dr. Perfect), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
3. Modified manometer for the determination of the vapour tensions of molten cadmium and zinc (Mr. C. H. M. Jenkins), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
4. Spectrograms and special polarimeter tubes, exhibited by Messrs Adam Hilger.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
The Mace of the Royal Society. Presented by King Charles II in 1663.
5. A set of photomicrographs of various forms of hairs occurring on the leaves of plants, exhibited by George H. Rodman.
6. Researches in soil cultivation (Dr. B. A. [Bernard Augustus] Keen and Dr. W. B. Haines), exhibited by the Soil Physics Department, Rothamsted Experimental Station.
7. The hybrid nature of cultivated cacaos, exhibited by Arthur William Hill, the Director, Royal Gardens, Kew.
Room 3:
8. Borehole alignment indicator, exhibited by John Switzer Owens.
9. Methods of recording and measuring solar radiation, exhibited by the Director, Meteorological Office.
10. Photoelectric photometer (Professor F. A. [Frederick Alexander] Lindemann and Mr. G. M. B. [Gordon Miller Bourne] Dobson), exhibited by the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford.
11. Models of crystal structure (Professor W. L. [William Lawrence] Bragg, Mr. G. B. Brown, Mr. J. West), the beta-ray tracks associated with absorbed and scattered x-rays (Mr. J. M. [John Mitchell] Nuttall, Mr. E. J. [Evan James] Williams), the structures of beta manganese and gamma brass (Mr. A. J. Bradley), exhibited by the Physical Laboratories, Victoria University, Manchester.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
12. Studies of radiotelegraphic atmospherics, exhibited by the Radio Research Station, in collaboration with Edward Victor Appleton.
13. Apparatus for the investigation of soft x-rays, exhibited by Owen Willans Richardson.
14. Pendulum apparatus for gravity determination, exhibited by the Cambridge Instrument Company.
15. Apparatus for illustrating the main vibrations of an autocar, exhibited by James John Guest.
16. Exhibition of radiographs of general interest, exhibited by the Research Department, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
17. Primula kewensis and its derivatives (Mr. W. C. F. Newton and Miss Caroline Pellew), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution.
18. An early microscope of the Leeuwenhoek type by Butterfield, Paris, circa 1680, portrait of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek [mezzotint by Van Verkolje], exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
19. Mechanical models to illustrate the structure of the atom, exhibited by William Arthur Douglas Rudge.
20. Electrical instruments for physiological research, exhibited by Mr. A. C. Downing.
21. Neon tube and tuning fork combination for producing electrical oscillations of harmonic frequencies suitable for calibrating wavemeters, exhibited by William Henry Eccles and Dr. Winifred Leyshon.
22. The stomachion or loculus of Archimedes, exhibited by Richard Dixon Oldham.
23. Alloy steels for various special purposes, exhibited by Sir Robert Hadfield.
24. Photograph of Sun 13 April 1926, photograph of large Sun-spot 20 January 1926, exhibited by Sir Frank Dyson, the Astronomer Royal.
25. Photographs of the total solar eclipse 14 January 1926 taken at Benkoelen, Sumatra, exhibited by Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick John Marrian Stratton and Charles Rundle Davidson.
26. Compression tests on single crystals of aluminium, exhibited by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor.
27. Lepidoptera to illustrate the induction of melanism and its subsequent inheritance, exhibited by John William Heslop Harrison and Dr. F. C. Garrett.
28. Stages in the development of the skeleton of the irregular urchin (Echinocardium), exhibited by Miss Isabella Gordon.
29. Colour changes in fish: the colour markings of the Dab and their reactions to certain backgrounds, exhibited by Humphrey Robert Hewer.
30. A submarine insect from Samoa (Mr. F. W. [Frederick Wallace] Edwards and Dr. P. A. [Patrick Alfred] Buxton), exhibited by the Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History).
31. Development in vitro of the isolated eye of the embryonic fowl, exhibited by Thomas Strangeways Pigg Strangeways and Dr. Honor Bridget Fell.
32. Cichlid fishes collected by Dr. C. [Cuthbert] Christy in Lake Nyassa (Mr. C. [Charles] Tate Regan), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
33. Plaster casts of Archaeopteryx, exhibited by the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
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