| 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. Commencing with a note on a lecture to be given in the Meeting Room (Ground Floor) at 8.45 and 10 p.m., 'The history of the Royal Society', by Edward Neville da Costa Andrade. With 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'.
Reception Room:
The mace presented by King Charles II in 1663.
Rooms 1 and 2:
X-rays in science, art and industry, arranged by Sir William Lawrence Bragg.
1. Apparatus of historic interest, (a) the development of the x-ray tube. (b) Sir William Bragg's x-ray spectrometer. (c) the original apparatus of H. G. J. Moseley for the determination of 'The high-frequency spectra of the elements.' (the following have collaborated: Kathleen Lonsdale, Francis William Aston, Dr. Sherwood Taylor, Phillips Lamps Limited, London). 2. Industrial radiography (collaborators: Dr. L. Mullins, Harold Percy Rooksby, Charles Sykes, Mr. C. Croxson).
3. Application of x-rays to the fine arts (collaborators: Harold James Prenderleith, Francis Ian Gregory Rawlins, Andre Guinier).
4. X-ray optics (collaborator: Henry Lipson).
5. X-ray analysis of complex organic compounds (collaborators: Herbert Marcus Powell, Dr. D. E. Palin, Dr, C. H. Carlisle, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, John Monteath Robertson).
6. X-ray diffraction from crystalline proteins (collaborator: Max Ferdinand Perutz).
7. Molecular structure of plastics (collaborator: Charles William Bunn).
8. Correlation of atomic structure and surface phenomena (collaborators: Samual Tolansky and Henry Lipson).
9. X-ray analysis of fibre structure (collaborator: William Thomas Astbury).
10. Some early x-ray photographs (a) taken by George Hugh Gabb on 10 February 1896 of his own hand and foot (b) taken by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton at the soirees in May and June 1896, hand of Lord Kelvin, hand of Arthur James Balfour, hand of Sir William Crookes.
Rooms 3 and 4 and Courtyard:
Personnel Research in the Services.
The Royal Navy:
Self-contained diving gear.
Oxygen.
1. Effect of oxygen on isolated tissues and on animals.
2. Effect of high-pressure oxygen on man, variability of the human subject.
3. Self-contained diving gear employing oxygen, fin-swimming gear, human torpedo and baby submarine divers.
Nitrogen.
1. Bubble formation as the cause of bends.
2. Estimation of a diver's oxygen consumption underwater.
3. Diving gear employing mixtures, human minesweepers, beach-clearance units, mine-recovery divers.
Carbon dioxide.
1. CO2 intoxication in the human subject, methods for filling and testing absorbent canisters.
Underwater blast.
1. The effect of underwater explosions on air-containing viscera.
2. Equipment for protecting divers.
Royal Naval Air Service:
1. Model aircraft carrier.
2. Nylon cord harness.
3. Immersion suit.
4. Tropical flying boot.
5. (a) Deck landing Control Officer's fluorescent silk suit and fluorescent 'bats' for day use (b) Deck landing Control Officer's fluorescent silk suit for night use in conjunction with ultra-violet lighting.
6. Tropical back pack.
7. 'Fear Nought' fire-fighting suit.
8. Photographs showing various aspects of naval aviation, and charts and photographs of experiments on the water requirements of survivors.
Gunnery problems:
1. Harmonium mounting.
2. Seating for ocular sights.
3. Air look-out sight.
Effects of heat on human behaviour:
1. Prolonged visual search.
2. Accurate muscular control during heavy physical work.
3. Transcription of high-speed wireless telegraphy messages.
The following have participated in the above demonstrations: Chemical Defence Experimental Station, Porton; Department of Human Anatomy, Oxford; Dunlop Rubber Company Limited; Frankenstein Limited; G. Q. Parachute Company Limited; Medical Research Council; Psychological Laboratory, Cambridge; Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine; Royal Naval Air Medical School; Royal Naval Physiological Laboratory; Siebe Gorman and Company Limited; Superintendent of Diving Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit; Vickers Armstrong Limited.
The Army
Armoured fighting vehicles.
1. Comet Tank.
2. Gun laying.
3. Apparatus showing principle of aided laying.
4. Gun fumes.
5. Sighting telescopes.
6. Vision from tanks - 'All round vision cupola'.
7. Tank driving controls
Problems of tropical warfare.
1. Reactions of men to tropical environments.
2. Fabrics. Mosquito-proofness.
3. Protection against ''Flash'.
4. Tropical equipment.
5. Man's requirements of salt and water.
Motion sickness.
Time and motion studies.
The following have participated in the above demonstrations: Armoured Fighting Vehicles Department of the Department of Tank Design; Army Medical Department, War Office; Army Operational Research Group, Ministry of Supply; Department of Zoology, Cambridge; Medical Research Council; Royal Armoured Corps, War Office; Special Weapons and Vehicles Department, War Office.
The Royal Air Force:
Low oxygen pressure.
1. Mobile low-pressure chamber for teaching aircrews the proper use of oxyf=gen and effects of its neglect.
2. Development of oxygen masks and associated equipment.
3. The effects of oxygen lack. Blood oxygen saturation and failure of muscular co-ordination.
4. Equipment for automatic recording of respiration of aircrew during operational missions.
Low pressure.
1. Bubble formation at low pressure.
2. Pressure suits and pressure breathing equipment.
Acceleration.
1. Films of experimental work on centripetal and linear acceleration.
2. The development of anti-acceleration garments.
Protection from exposure.
1. The development of flotation and exposure garments for the R.A.F and Fleet Air Arm.
2. Special flying clothing.
3. Anthropological data for development of cockpits and clothing.
Vision. Hearing. Development of testing of aircrew for hearing in noise.
The disorganisation of skill in fatigue and emotion.
1. The Cambridge cockpit.
2. The skilled response test.
3. The synthetic training of Pathfinder air bombers in visual centring on target indicators.
The following have participated in the above demonstrations: Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine; Royal Air Force Acoustics Laboratory; Royal Canadian Air Force; No. 1 C.I.U.; Royal Australian Air Force; Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough; Psychological Laboratory, Cambridge; Chemical Defence Experimental Station, Porton; Frankenstein & Sons Limited; Howard Flint Limited; The Avon India Rubber Company; The Hertfordshire Rubber Company; The Dunlop Rubber Company; Skelton & Sleat Limited; Martin Baker Aircraft; Permutit Company; British Cotton Industry Research Institute; British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association.
Room 5:
The development of fluorescent lighting, exhibited by the British Thompson-Houston Company Limited.
Room 6 (Ground Floor):
Exhibits illustrating the traditional connection of the Royal Society with men of science of some of the allied countries: America, France, Netherlands, Russia, Scandinavian countries, exhibited by Edward Neville da Costa Andrade.
Early Dutch biologists, exhibited by Francis Joseph Cole.
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