| 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 and Ground Floor. Demonstrations held during the evening are listed at the rear of the programme. The Royal Society's coat of arms is printed in red on the title page.
Room 1 (Officers' Room):
1. Photomicrographs of crystals in colour mounted to show changing tints, exhibited by Dudley Northall-Laurie.
2. Some early types of electric discharge tubes (Dr. G. W. C. [George William Clarkson] Kaye), photomicrographs of wood (Dr. G. W. C. Kaye and Mr. W. F. Higgins), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
3. Photographs of lines of electric force, exhibited by Mr. E. E. Brooks.
4. Models showing structure of tartaric and racemic acid (Mr. W. T. [William Thomas] Astbury), model showing arrangement of molecules in basic beryllium acetate, exhibited by Sir William Henry Bragg.
5. Centenary of death of Dr. Edward Jenner, early meeting places of the Royal Society, photograph of James Prescott Joule F.R.S., taken by Lady Lucy Roscoe about 1876, exhibited by the Royal Society.
Room 2 (Council Room):
Mace of the Royal Society. Presented by King Charles II in 1663.
6. Large aluminium crystals, exhibited by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter.
7. Copies of some early scientific instruments, exhibited by the Science Museum.
Room 3 (Old Council Room):
8. Examples of research work. Investigations in a coal mine (Mr. Eric Farmer), specimen curves of improved output and wastage (Dr. G. H. [George Herbert] Miles and Mr. Eric Farmer), intelligence tests (Dr. Cyril Burt), vocational selection tests for entrants to the engineering trades (Mr. M. H. Tagg), exhibited by the National Institute of Industrial Psychology (Charles Samuel Myers).
9. The phenomenon of 'aversion' between monospore mycelia of the fungus Diaporthe perniciosa, exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution (Miss Dorothy Mary Cayley).
10. Tetrachloroiodides of organic bases (with Mr. F. L. Garton), exhibited by Frederick Daniel Chattaway.
11. Pictures 'broadcast' by radiotelephony, exhibited by Edmund Edward Fournier d'Albe.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
12. Mirror-image structures in cell-walls of cotton hairs, exhibited by William Lawrence Balls.
13. The Daponte stereoscopic projector, exhibited by Edward Sanger-Shepherd.
14. A public announcement system, 'Permalloy' a new high permeability iron alloy, the Western Electric Company Limited.
15. Restored plaster cast of the Wealden freshwater gastropod shell Dinocochlea ingens, exhibited by Arthur Smith Woodward and Bernard Barham Woodward.
16. Armoured skull of a Cretaceous dinosaur from Alberta, Canada, exhibited by Arthur Smith Woodward.
17. Exhibition of photographs illustrative of the Heape and Gryll's rapid cinema machine, designed to take photographs at rates varying from 500 to 5,000 photographs per second, exhibition of selected photographs enlarged from cinema films taken at speeds varying from 2,000 to 3,500 photographs per second by the Heape and Gryll's rapid cinema machine, exhibited by Walter Heape.
18. A levitating magnet, exhibited by Frederick Harrison Glew.
19. Stream line filter, exhibited by Henry Selby Hele-Shaw.
20. Sand figures showing the numerous resonant modes of vibration of telephone received diagrams, exhibited by John Turner MacGregor-Morris and Edward Mallett.
21. The biological action of light an interference effect, exhibited by the National Institute for Medical Research (Dr. Leonard Hill and Dr. Albert Eidinow).
22. Bust of Galileo carved in pear wood. Probably a work of about 1650-70, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
23. Stereo-photo micrographs of Hydracarina (water mites) in natural colours, exhibited by Henry Taverner.
24. Beetles showing transplanted heads, exhibited by Herbert Graham Cannon.
25. Variation in red-legged partridges (Alectoris rufa), exhibited by Percy Roycroft Lowe.
26. On the value of markings on herring-scale as a means for estimating age and growth rate of the fish, exhibited by H J Buchanan-Wollaston.
27. Succulent plants showing similar habits of growth which belong to unrelated natural families, exhibited by Arthur William Hill, the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
28. The acute lesions produced by mustard gas on the cat's lung, the cultivation of adult and foetal lung in vitro, exhibited by H. M. Carleton.
38. Deep sea cables damaged by shark bites, contents of a crocodile's stomach, modifications of the dentition in some African vertebrates, rare deep-sea fishes (Gigantura and Stylophorus) from the Atlantic, exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History) (Charles Tate Regan and Martin Alistair Campbell Hinton).
39. A new illuminator for opaque objects under the microscope, illumination of ordinary objects with polarized light under the microscope, exhibited by Conrad Beck.
29. Test-plates for microscope objectives, exhibited by Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock.
30. Imitations of organic forms by drops and vortices of gelatin, exhibited by Emil Hatschek.
Meeting Room:
Demonstrations -
At 8.45-9.10 o'clock.
The Frenophone, exhibited by Sidney George Brown.
At 9.15-9.30 o'clock and again at 10.30 o'clock.
Cinematograph exhibition of a series of films the photographs of which were taken at rates varying from 2,000 to 3,000 per second, exhibited by Walter Heape.
At 9.45-10.20 o'clock.
The Adioun [thermiotic valve] cinematograph exhibition, Sir J. J. Thomson in the Research Laboratories of the Western Electric Company in New York, instruments of speech, exhibited by the International Western Electric Company.
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