| 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 1-7 and Meeting Room. Commencing with a note on colour 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. Wave front shearing interferometry, exhibited by Mr. W. J. Bates.
2. Reflecting microscope, exhibited by Mr. W. J. Bates and Cecil Reginald Burch.
3. Interference filters, growing of optical synthetic crystals, exhibited by Adam Hilger Limited.
Room 2:
4. Optical model illustrating the principle of the Bragg x-ray spectrometer., exhibited by the Science Museum.
5. New type cinema studio lamp - high brightness colour modified enclosed mercury arc, exhibited by the British Thomson-Houston Company Limited.
6. Chauliodus sloanei a stomiatoid fish, Eurypharynx pelicanoides a bony fish (Dr. V. [Vladimir Vyacheslavovich] Tchernavin), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
Room 3 (Reception Room):
7. Correlated response: the solution of a Darwinian problem (Dr. K. [Kenneth] Mather and Mr. B. J. [Brian] Harrison), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution.
8. Blood differentiation and nucleic acid (Mr. L. F. [Leonard Francis] La Cour), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution.
Room 4:
9. Changes in the coefficient of expansion of pure uranium, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory (Metallurgy Division).
10. High efficiency laboratory fractionating column, exhibited by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (Billingham Division).
11. Residual stresses in polycrystalline sheets of silver chloride, exhibited by the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
12. A rapid sensitive galvanometer with a balanced system, exhibited by Arthur Charles Downing.
13. Apparatus for measuring the absorption of ultra-sonic waves in liquids (Mr. J. M. M. [John Maurice McLean] Pinkerton), exhibited by the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
14. Brazilianite, a new mineral from Brazil, exhibited by the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History).
Room 5:
15. Records of solar radiation on radio wave-lengths (Mr. M. [Martin] Ryle and Mr. D. D. [Derek Daniel] Vonberg), exhibited by the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
16. Hysteresis loops of ferroelectric materials (Mr. J. K. Hulm), exhibited by the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
17. Radiation-fluxmeter for medical purposes (Dr. K. [Kurt Alfred Georg] Mendelssohn), exhibited by the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford.
18. Demonstration apparatus for electron diffraction, the air-driven ultracentrifuge, exhibited by the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory.
19. Simple and compound microscopes, exhibited by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.
20. Model of a manual fire engine, circa 1680, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
21. Micrometer operated burette, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory (Metrology Divison).
22. Measurement of the dielectric characteristics of water at centimetre wavelengths, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory (Radio Division).
23. The magnification and display of galvanometer deflections, exhibited by Mr. N. V. Attree and Archibald Vivian Hill.
24. Ammonia absorption in the millimetre wavelength band, exhibited by the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company.
25. Ionic exchange and fibre contraction, exhibited by Mr. J. L. Mongar and Mr. A. [Albert] Wassermann.
26. Siphonophora, the Cystonect, Physalia, contrasted with various Diphyd calycophores. Specimens collected by R.R.S. 'Discovery' (Captain A. K. [Arthur Knyvett] Totton), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
27. Non-sexual reproduction in sponges (Dr. M. Burton), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
28. The most primitive Chordate known, a Liassic mammal-like reptile, a new Hyracoid from Kenya, lava implements from Ol Orgesaile Kenya Rift Valley, a Pleistocene fallow deer, exhibited by the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
29. Some recent work on crystallizable plant viruses (Dr. R. [Roy] Markham and Dr. Kenneth Smith), exhibited by the Molteno Institute, Cambridge.
Room 6:
30. A crystalline bacterial enzyme (Dr. D. Herbert), exhibited by the Medical Research Council Unit for Bacterial Chemistry, Lister Institute.
31. Differential analyser for the solution of a recurring heat-flow problem, exhibited by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited ((Alkali Division).
32. Precision measuring machine, made for the Astronomer Royal for measurement of stellar photographs, a universal measuring machine for meteorological investigations, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Limited.
33. Accurate plastic optical components made by reproduction from a master mould by a newly developed process known as the 'Surface-finishing' process, exhibited by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (Plastics Division).
34. Some aspects of the biology of Echinoderms, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
35. A gift of books from Yale University in memory of Edward Stephen Harkness, the founder of the Pilgrim Trust in Great Britain, Newtoniana - plaque presented by Sir Shanti Bhatnagar on behalf of the Indian Delegation to the Newton Tercentenary Celebrations, exhibited by the Royal Society.
Room 7 (Ground Floor):
36. Mechanical model illustrating the uranium chain reaction, exhibited by the Science Museum.
Meeting Room:
Colour films will be shown at 9.15, 9.45 and 10.15 p.m., as under -
Cine film in colour, of growing crystals, exhibited by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (Alkali Division).
Technicolour film demonstrating colour rendering of mercury cadmium compact source lamps, exhibited by the British Thompson-Houston Company. |