| 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. 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. Demonstration of part of the apparatus for determining length standards in terms of wave-lengths of light (Mr. J. E. [John Edward] Sears junior and Mr. H. [Henry] Barrell), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
2. The time relations of the excitatory process in nerve during continued stimulation, exhibited by Archibald Vivian Hill and Mr. D. Scott.
3. Some experiments in thermo-elasticity, exhibited by Ernest George Coker and Archibald Vivian Hill.
4. Micro-methods of measuring vapour pressure, exhibited by Edward James Baldes.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
The Mace of the Royal Society. Presented by King Charles II in 1663.
5. Original moving lens lightning camera, photographs obtained with revolving lens cameras, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
6. Stone implements of the natives of Tasmania, exhibited by Henry Balfour.
7. The effects of x-rays on chromosomes in mitosis and meiosis, exhibited by Michael James Denham White.
8. Sex determining chromosomes in the rat (Dr. C. D. [Cyril Dean] Darlington and Dr. Ch. P. [Peo] Koller), new characters in diploid and polyploid tomatoes (Dr. F. W. [Frederick Whalley] Sansome), a chromosome deficiency in oats (Dr. J. Philp), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution.
9. Physiological tests for acetylcholine (Sir Henry Dale, Dr. W. [Wilhelm] Feldberg and Dr. A. Vartiainen), exhibited by the National Institute for Medical Research.
10. The axial skeleton of teleostean fishes, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
11. The tail and sensory canals of the Old Red Ostracoderm Pteraspis (Dr. E. I. White), concretions with spiral forms (Dr. H. D. Thomas), exhibited by the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
12. Variability, meiosis, and mitosis in diploid and polyploid Artemia salina, exhibited by Dr. F. Gross.
Room 3:
13. Colour distribution from modern gas discharge lamps, exhibited by the British Thomson-Houston Company Limited.
14. Fractional seconds chronograph (Mr. E. A. Nehan), integrator (Mr. J. Harvey), exhibited by the Mathematical Department, Imperial College of Science.
15. The bed bug in the slums, exhibited by Patrick Alfred Buxton and Alfred Weston McKenny-Hughes.
16. The Phthalocynaines a new class of organic colouring matters, exhibited by Reginald Patrick Linstead.
17. The formation of artificial clouds, exhibited by Sir Gilbert Walker and Mr. A. Graham.
18. Methods of studying capillary waves, exhibited by Mr. R. C. Brown.
19. Method of grafting the 'Glory Pea' (Clianthus dampieri A. Cunn.), exhibited by Arthur William Hill, the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens.
20. Evolution in budgerigar under domestication, exhibited by Reginald Crundall Punnett.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
21. Reproduction of Cayley's first model glider 1804, reproduction of Cayley's improved aerial top 1854, exhibited by the Science Museum.
22. A photoelectric method of measuring the cell space ration in woods, exhibited by the Forest Products Research Laboratory.
23. A self-recording apparatus for measuring changes in aperture of stomata of the leaf, exhibited by Frederick Gugenheim Gregory and Mr. H L Pearse.
24. An analogy of the Aurora Borealis demonstrated by means of a cathode-ray tube (Mr. R. A. [Robert Alexander] Watson Watt), the cathode-ray tube as magnetic compass (Mr. R. A.. Watson Watt, Mr. J. F. Herd and Mr. L. H. {Labouchere Hillyer] Bainbridge-Bell, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
25. Control of structure and soundness of ingot on non-ferrous metals, exhibited by the Metals Research Association.
26. Metropolitan-Vickers portable noise measuring apparatus, metallic coatings on glass and paper obtained by the condensation of metal evaporated in vacuo, exhibited by the Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company.
27. Investigations on the relation of insect activity in the field to climatic conditions (Mr. C. E. Williams, Chief Entomologist, and Mr. D. Morland, Apiarist), exhibited by the Entomological Department, Rothamsted Experimental Station.
28. Apparatus for spectrography and spectrophotometry, exhibited by Messrs. Adam Hilger Limited.
29. Studies of coal particles, studies of coal suspensions, exhibited by the Fuel Research Station.
30. Piezo-electric recorder for impact stresses (Mr. G. Grime), exhibited by the Building Research Station.
31. Simple apparatus for prolonged artificial respiration, exhibited by Robert William Paul.
32. The nature of the active principle of the Amphibian organisational centre (Mr. C. H. [Conrad Hal] Waddington, Dr. J. [Joseph] Needham, and Dr. D. M. [Dorothy Mary Moyle] Needham), the relation between differentiation and chemical processes in the early development of the bird and mammalian embryo (Dr. W. [Werner] Jacobson), exhibited by the Strangeways Research Laboratory.
33. A microscope for ultra-violet microscopy (Mr. J. E. [Joseph Edwin] Barnard), exhibited by the National Institute for Medical Research.
34. Specimens of metallurgical interest illustrating properties and applications of metals and alloys, mainly ferrous.
35. The development of the automatic microtome, exhibited by the Department of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology, Cambridge, and the Cambridge Instrument Company Limited.
36. Silica-glass from the Libyan Desert (Dr. L. J. [Leonard James] Spencer), exhibited by the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History).
37. Silicosis, exhibited by William R. Jones.
38. The earliest known dated optical instrument in the world. A telescope of 1646 by Maria de Rheita, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
39. (for full description see no.32), exhibited by the Strangeways Research Laboratory.
40. The virus of Psittacosis in stained preparations and cytoplasmic inclusions in virus diseases (Captain S. R. [Stewart Ranken] Douglas, Mr. P. P. [Patrick Playfair] Laidlaw and Professor W. [Walter Michel] Levinthal), exhibited by the |National Institute for Medical Research.
41. Developmental stages of the common limpet Patella vulgate, exhibited by Mr. F. G. Walton Smith.
42. The British Myrmecophiles (guests of British ants) (Mr. H. Donisthorpe), exhibited by the Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History).
43. Thick sections of animal tissues, exhibited by Herbert Graham Cannon.
Room 5 Ground Floor (End of Corridor):
44. Transmutation experiments with protons and diplons at potentials up to 100,000 volts, exhibited by Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant.
45. Induced radioactivity of the light elements, exhibited by Charles Drummond Ellis and William J. Henderson.
Room 6 (Meeting Room):
46. Air flow meter, prevention of the oil pollution at sea, an apparatus to enable the deaf to hear by bone conduction, the effects of mechanical strain on the properties of magnetic materials, piezo electric records of underwater explosions, automatic radio direction finder, marine galvanometer, exhibited by the Director of Scientific Research, Admiralty.
47. Electron diffraction and surface structures, exhibited by George Ingle Finch.
48. Experimental apparatus from the Research Laboratories, exhibited by Imperial Chemical Industries (Alkali) Limited.
49. Noise meter, exhibited by Standard Telephones and Cables Limited.
50. A soap-bubble gas flowmeter (Dr. G. Barr), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
51. X-ray photographs of crystallised pepsin, exhibited by John Desmond Bernal. |