| 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 a film 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. Crystalline vitamin B12 - preparation and microbiological assay, exhibited by Ernest Lester Smith, Glaxo Laboratories.
2. Microscope with long working distance, exhibited by Mr. J. Dyson, Electron Physics Section, Associated Electrical Industries Research Laboratory.
3. A simple method for phase-contrast microscopy, John Randal Baker, Peter C. J. Brunet and Denys A. Kempson, Department of Zoology, Oxford.
Room 2:
4. The effect of fungal epidemics on the periodicity of phytoplankton organisms, exhibited by Hilda Canter and John Walter Guerrier Lund, Freshwater Biological Association.
5. Germanium triode, exhibited by the British Thompson-Houston Company Limited.
6. Single crystals of alkali halides and other materials, exhibited by Adam Hilger Limited.
7. The negative spring, exhibited by Egon Orowan and Mr. Oliver H. Wyatt, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
8. Optical model of diffraction microscope, exhibited by Denys Gabor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.
Room 3:
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:
9. A new encrusting Ceratelladid, exhibited by Arthur Knyvett Totton, British Museum (Natural History).
10. Elementary slip processes in aluminium as shown by the electron microscope, exhibited by Arthur Frederick Brown, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
11. The halteres of flies, exhibited by John William Sutton Pringle, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.
12. Some recently introduced Cerambycid timber beetles and their immature stages, exhibited by John William Alexander Francis Balfour-Browne, British Museum (Natural History), Coleoptera Section.
13. The original water-friction apparatus used by Dr. J. P. [James Prescott] Joule F.R.S., in his experiments on the mechanical equivalent of heat, exhibited by the Science Museum.
Room 5:
14. Moving-coil galvanometers amplification and display, exhibited by V. H. Attree, A. C. Downing and Archibald Vivian Hill, University College London.
15. The electric response at a sensory nerve ending, exhibited by Bernard Katz, Biophysics Research Unit, University College London.
16. Colouring matters of aphids, exhibited by Alexander Robertus Todd, University Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge.
17. Noughts and crosses machine, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory (Mathematics Division).
18. Infra red radiation detectors, exhibited by the British Thomson-Houston Company Limited.
19. A flat flame for determination of the velocity of slow flames, exhibited by Sir Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton and Mr. S. Thabet, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Imperial College London.
20. An automatic recording Raman spectrometer, exhibited by D. A. Long, C. H. Miller, Harold Warris Thompson, Dr. A. L. Woodward, Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford.
21. Fossil-plants from Carboniferous rocks in Scotland, exhibited by John Walton, Department of Botany, Glasgow University.
22. Micromanipulation apparatus, exhibited by James William Longman Beament, Agricultural Research Council, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.
23. Rickets in Xenopus toads, exhibited by Miss Hilda Margaret Bruce and Alan Sterling Parkes, National Institute for Medical Research.
24. Demonstration of experiments on 'organizers' in invertebrates and vertebrates, exhibited by Mr. M. Abercrombie, Gavin Rylands de Beer, Dr. P. Ford, Miss R. Morgan and Miss J. Singer, Department of Embryology, University College, London.
25. Corrosion of ferrous metals by sulphate-reducing bacteria, exhibited by Miss M. E. Adams, Mr. K. R. Butlin and Miss M. Thomas, Chemical Research Laboratory, Teddington.
26. Electron micrographs of influenza and related viruses adsorbed on the membranes of fowl red cells, exhibited by Dr. I. Dawson, Dr. William Joseph Elford, National Institute for Medical Research.
27. Flash cinematography of bird flight, exhibited by R. H. J. Brown, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.
28. Nuclear transmutations produced by particles of the cosmic ray of energy 10 10 eV, exhibited by Cecil Frank Powell, H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, Bristol.
29. The separation of inorganic compounds by paper chromatography, exhibited by Mr. T. V. Arden, Mr. F. H. Burstall, Dr. G. R. Davies, Reginald Patrick Linstead and Mr. R. A. Wells, Chemical Research Laboratory, Teddington.
30. Stellar astronomy at radio wavelengths, exhibited by Martin Ryle, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
31. Aspects of the work of the Cambridge Botanical Expedition to Nigeria 1947-48, exhibited by Paul Westmacott Richards, Botany School, Cambridge.
Room 7:
32. Exhibition of living marine animals, Marine Biological Association, Plymouth.
33. Gravity survey in the British Isles, exhibited by the Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, Cambridge.
Meeting Room:
A film will be shown at 9.15, 9.45 and 10.15 p.m. as under -
'Explosions on the Sun', photographed by Professor Donald Howard Menzel, High Altitude Observatory of Harvard University and the University of Colorado, exhibited by the Royal Astronomical Society and introduced by Frederick John Marian Stratton. |