| 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 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. A wind tunnel for the study of insect flight, exhibited by Peter S. B. Digby, Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Oxford.
2. Autoradiographs of nerve and muscle, exhibited by Gilbert Washington Causey, Department of Anatomy, University College, London.
3. The life-history of simian and human malaria parasites in the insect and vertebrate hosts embodying recent additions to our knowledge, exhibited by Henry Edward Shortt, Director, Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
4. Stereoscopic electron micrograms, exhibited by Anthony E. Ennos and Michael Edward Haine, Associated Electrical Industries Research Laboratory.
Room 2:
5. Anatomy and histology of blood-sucking flies (Diptera), exhibited by Boris Jobling, Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine.
6. The use of plastics in embedding and mounting biological specimens, exhibited by Cecil John Hackett, Mr. W. A. Norman, Wellcome Museum of Medical Science.
7. Underwater cinephotography in the ocean: propeller studies, exhibited by Mr. W. D. Chesterman, Mr. R. P. Coghlan, Mr. J. B. Collins, Mr. J. H. Hodges, Royal Naval Scientific Service.
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:
8. Anglo-Swedish Expedition to frozen lakes in Lapland April 1949, exhibited by Frederick John Haines Mackereth and Dr. Clifford Hiley Mortimer, Freshwater Biological Association.
9. Preparation and properties of pure iron and pure iron alloys, exhibited by Mr. W. P. Rees, National Physical Laboratory (Metallurgy Division).
10. The Hall Effect in Germanium, exhibited by Mr. D. A. Wright, the General Electric Company Limited, Research Laboratories.
11. An interferometer microscope, exhibited by Mr. J. Dyson, Associated Electrical Industries Research Laboratory.
12. Le Rolland-Sorin elastometer, exhibited by M. le Roland, Director of Research, Institut Superieur des Materiaux et de la Construction Mecanique.
13. The perception of colour by the normal eye in relation to retinal structure, exhibited by Dr. E. H. Leach, Physiological Laboratory, Oxford, Edward Nevil Willmer, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge.
Room 5:
14. Velocity of electromagnetic waves by the measurement of wave-length in a cavity resonator, exhibited by Louis Essen, National Physical Laboratory.
15. Some new and interesting phosphors, the occurrence of the green auroral line at 5577 angstroms and associated phosphorescent band in gas filled filament lamps, exhibited by Mr. J. N. Bowtell, Mr. H. G. Jenkins, Mr. A. H. McKeag, the General Electric Company Limited, Research Laboratories.
16. Modern permanent magnets with a graph of their magnetic characteristics, exhibited by the Permanent Magnet Association, Sheffield.
17. A galvanometer of extreme sensitivity, exhibited by Mr. K. Copeland and Mr. A. C. Dowling, Biophysics Research Unit, University College London.
18. Effect of temperature on fluorescent lamps, exhibited by Mr. E. E. Miles, the General Electric Company Limited, Research Laboratories.
19. Halogen vapour leak detector, exhibited by the British Thomson-Houston Company Limited.
20. A study of the birth and growth of explosive reactions: a high-speed electronic camera that can show detail occurring in 10 -8 to 10 -9 of a second, exhibited by Frank Philip Bowden et al., Jeofry Stuart Courtney-Pratt, Department of Physical Chemistry, Cambridge.
21. Continuous determination of a single component in a product stream by means of an infra-red spectrometer with cathode ray presentation, exhibited by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited.
22. n-Paraffin adducts with urea, exhibited by Dr. S. F. Birch, Mr. R. W. Cranston, Mr. R. L. Denyer, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited.
23. Living specimens of rare succulents from South Africa comprising members of various families, exhibited by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
24. Research on tropical medicine, exhibited by John D. Fulton and Frank Hawking, National Institute for Medical Research.
25. Microwave and optical analogues, Gordon Ferrie Hull junior, Wilder Laboratory, Dartmouth and United States Office of Naval Research, London.
Room 6:
26. Size and performance in hopping mammals, exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
27. Deep sea seismic refraction shooting, exhibited by Mr. M. N. Hill, Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, Cambridge.
28. The echo-sounder as an aid to fisheries, exhibited by David Henry Cushing an William C. Hodgson, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Messrs. Kelvin-Hughes Limited.
29. Structure of polypeptide chains in proteins, exhibited by Sir William Lawrence Bragg, John Cowdery Kendrew and Max Ferdinand Perutz, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
30. Life habits of marine polychaete worms, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
Meeting Room:
A film will be shown at 9.15, 9.45 and 10.15 p.m. as under -
'Substitution of the nucleus of an amoeba', photographed by Dr. Pierre de Fonbrune in collaboration with Dr. J. Comandon at the Institut Pasteur at Garches, exhibited by the Institut Francais du Royaume Uni. |