| 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 1-5 and Meeting Room. Commencing with a note on films to be shown during the evening and an acknowledgement that 'By 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. Ripple-tank demonstration of sound transmission through partitions and flanking walls in a building (Dr. G. W. C. [George William Clarkson] Kaye and Dr. J. E. R. Constable), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
2. Visual demonstration of the spectral analysis of noise, (Dr. G. W. C. [George William Clarkson] Kaye and Dr. J. E. R. Constable), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
3. Colour measurement, exhibited by Rothamsted Experimental Station.
4. A demonstration of standing waves on Lecher wires, a demonstration of electron transmission time in cathode ray tubes, exhibited by Standard Telephones and Cables.
Room 2:
The Mace presented by King Charles II in 1663.
5. Portraits of Fellows of the Royal Society whose names are commemorated by genera or species of plants, together with coloured pictures and living specimens of plants named after them, a series of specimens to show the evolution of the Southern African Grapple Fruit Harpagophytum procumbens DC. (Pedaliaceae) (Dr. J. Hutchinson), exhibited by the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
6. Prehensile tails in mammals (Captain Guy Dollman), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
7. Genetics and chemistry of Anthocyanin pigmentation in Streptcarpus (Mr. W. J. C Lawrence and Mr. J. R. Price), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution.
8. Self- and cross-incompatibility in fruit trees (Mr. M. B. [Morley Benjamin] Crane), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution.
9. Apparatus for gravity measurement at sea, exhibited by [Felix Andries] Vening Meinesz and the Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, Cambridge.
Room 3:
10. A thixoviscometer, an instrument for the measurement of thixotropy or other types of anomalous viscosity, exhibited by Messrs. Griffin and Tatlock Limited, Charles Frederick Goodeve and Dr. G. S. Hartley.
11. The ecology of Plymouth echinoderns, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
12. A diorama of the Lake District illustrating the connexion between geology and scenery, exhibited by the Geological Survey and Museum.
13. Timber from foundations of Waterloo Bridge, exhibited by Messrs. W. W. Howard Brothers & Company and Messrs. John Mowlem & Company.
14. Specimens illustrating the patination and staining of flint, exhibited by James Reid Moir and Mr. J. P. T. Burchell.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
15. X-ray pictures of material in the department, exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
16. Voice pictures on a large cathode ray tube, exhibited by the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company Limited.
17. The development of paint-structure in pictures, exhibited by the National Gallery Research Laboratory.
18. Discharge tubes for the production of the spectra of molecules with high intensity, exhibited by Reginald William Blake Pearse and Alfred Gordon Gaydon.
19. A transportable electro-encephalograph, exhibited by William Grey Walter.
20. Rock specimens collected by Mr. A. G. [Archibald Gordon] MacGregor during the Royal Society's Expedition to Monserrat, exhibited by the Geological Survey and Museum.
21. The physical laboratory of the Academy of Sciences Paris in 1711. An original drawing in red crayon, bristre, pen and wash by Sebastien LeClerc (1637-1714), exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
22. Petrified fossil plants from a new locality in East Lothian, exhibited by William Thomas Gordon.
23. Fossorial mammals (Captain Guy Dollman), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
24. Historical experiments of Young and of Dewar on the colours of thin films, exhibited by the Laboratories of the Royal Institution.
25. An apparatus for continuously recording gaseous exchange in air, exhibited by Dr. A. Schott.
26. Demonstrations of new metallurgical instruments and testing methods, exhibited by Sir Robert Hadfield.
27. A new method of staining the nucleolus and chromosomes, exhibited by Reginald Ruggles Gates.
28. Exhibits of scientific historical interest, exhibited by Robert Stewart Whipple.
29. The Rivers McDougall fatigue machine, exhibited by the Cambridge Instrument Company Limited.
30. Antiquities from the Near East, exhibited by the British Museum Research Laboratory.
31. Specimens collected during the recent cruise of Lord Moyne's yacht 'Rosaura' (Dr. Isabella Gordon), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
32. The correlation between colour-pattern and structure in insects, exhibited by Samarendra Nath Maulik.
33. Permanent preparations of excysting larval trematodes, exhibited by the Hon. Miriam Rothschild.
34. Replica of bust by T. Butler of Samuel Cooper F.R.S., presented to the Society by Arthur Jaffe, exhibited by the Royal Society.
35. Model of ram's horns, exhibited by Sir D'Arcy Thompson.
36. Arithmaurel calculating machine (1854), exhibited by the Science Museum.
37. Selling's calculating machine (1886), exhibited by the Science Museum.
38. A model to illustrate the crystal structure of Orthoclase, Osbornite a rare mineral found in meteorites, Russelite a new British mineral, specimens collected by the John Murray Expedition 1933-34, exhibited by the British Museum (Natural History) Department of Mineralogy.
Room 5:
39. High pressure liquid phase polymerisation, exhibited by Dudley Maurice Newitt and Dr. R. Sapiro.
40. Geological model of Bolton's Brickyard, Ipswich, exhibited by George Slater.
41. Factors governing migration and accumulation of petroleum, exhibited by Vincent Charles Illing.
42. A new form of voice key, occupational selection tests, exhibited by the National Institute of Industrial Psychology.
Meeting Room (Ground Floor):
Films will be shown as under.
At 9.30 and 10.30 p.m.
(1) The form and growth of crystals on ice, (2) the breakdown of materials due to flaws shown by means of polarised light, (3) seeing the unseen and example of high-speed photography, exhibited by the Royal Institution.
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