| 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 sound films to be shown during the evening and an acknowledgement that 'By the 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. Simple light scattering apparatus for colloidal solutions, exhibited by the Royal Institution.
2. Length measurement by interferometry, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory (Metrology Division).
3. The measurement of small radio frequency noise powers, exhibited by the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
Room 2:
4. Photographic materials for the recording of nuclear particle tracks, autoradiography, exhibited by Kodak Limited.
5. Gyroscope model showing yawing motion of a spinning shell, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory (Engineering Division).
6. The invasion of British estuaries by the Australian barnacle Elminius modestus (Dr. J. P. [John Philip] Harding), exhibited by the British Museum (Natural History).
Room 3 (Reception Room):
The Mace of the Royal Society presented by King Charles II in 1663.
The Charter Book of the Royal Society which contains the signatures of the Royal Patrons and of the Fellows of the Society.
Room 4:
7. Visual observation of the Raman Effect, exhibited by Adam Hilger Limited.
8. Brass relief cut by explosive, exhibited by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (Explosives Division).
9. Electronic stop-clock, exhibited by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (Explosives Division).
10. Infra-red radiation detectors, exhibited by the British Thompson-Houston Company Limited.
11. A biologically balanced aquarium for the culture of the snail vectors of Schistosomiasis (Mr. O. D. Standen), exhibited by the Wellcome Research Institution.
12. Demonstration of anomalous elasticity in dilute polymer solutions, exhibited by Courtaulds Limited.
Room 5:
13. Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-94) an original manuscript (dates 1888) relating to his researches which subsequently laid the foundation of radio communications, exhibited by the Science Museum.
14. An ultrasonic memory system for an Electronic Digital Computing Machine, exhibited by the University Mathematical Laboratory, Cambridge.
15. Phase-contrast and ultra-violet microscopy of living cells, exhibited by the National Institute for Medical Research.
16. Recent developments in microscopical equipment, exhibited by Cooke, Troughton and Simms Limited.
17. Some examples of the uses of methyl methacrylate ("Perspex") in museum techniques, exhibited by the British Museum (Natural History).
18. Pulse sorter for measuring energies of nuclear fragments, exhibited by the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
19. Measurement of O2 by the change of the paramagnetism of oxygen with temperature.
20. Experimental laboratory apparatus for figuring an optical surface by controlled vacuum deposition of aluminium, exhibited by Grubb Parsons & Company.
21. Detection of nuclear magnetic moments by the induction method (Dr. A. H. [Arthur Hafford] Cooke), exhibited by the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford.
22. A sensitive microbalance for surface films, exhibited by the Royal Institution.
23. Artificial weathering by carbonic acid saturated under pressure (Mr. L. [Leslie] Bairstow), exhibited by the British Museum (Natural History).
24. The egg-tooth in Monotremes and vestiges of the egg-tooth and associated structures in Marsupials, exhibited by James Peter Hill and Gavin Rylands de Beer.
25. Model of a 16 MeV betatron, silicon putty, transmission of U.V. by glasses of various compositions, special glass/metal seals, exhibited by the British Thompson-Houston Company Limited.
Room 6:
26. Restoration of a 90-gun ship-model on the establishment of 1706, exhibited by the Science Museum.
27. The life-history of the mackerel, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
28. Parallel modification of the wing pattern in the geographical races of species of the genus Euploea Fab. (Lepidoptera) (Dr. A. S. [Alexander Steven] Corbet), exhibited by the British Museum (Natural History).
29. Comparison of different kinds of microscope in metallography, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory (Metallurgy Division).
Room 7:
30. Automatic recording spectrophotometer, exhibited by the Telecommunications Research Establishment.
Meeting Room:
A sound film will be shown at 9.15, 9.45 and 10.15 p.m., as under -
Mitosis of living cells and tissue culture shown by phase-contrast (Dr. [Arthur Frederick William] Hughes, Strangeways Laboratory), exhibited by Cooke, Troughton and Simms Limited. |