| 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. 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, Mr. W. Lord, Royal Naval Scientific Service.
Room 2:
2. Anatomy and histology of blood-sucking flies (Diptera), exhibited by Boris Jobling, Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine.
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. The use of plastics in embedding and mounting biological specimens, exhibited by Cecil John Hackett, Mr. W. A. Norman, Wellcome Museum of Medical Science.
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.
Floral exhibit by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Room 4:
5. 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.
6. 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:
7. An interferometer microscope, exhibited by Mr. J. Dyson, Associated Electrical Industries Research Laboratory.
8. Effect of temperature on fluorescent lamps, exhibited by Mr. E. E. Miles, the General Electric Company Limited, Research Laboratories.
9. 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.
10. Size and performance in hopping mammals, exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
11. A wind tunnel for the study of insect flight, exhibited by Peter S. B. Digby, Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Oxford.
12. Deep sea prospecting, exhibited by Mr. M. N. Hill, Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, Cambridge.
13. 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.
14. Autoradiographs of nerve and muscle, exhibited by Gilbert Washington Causey, Department of Anatomy, University College, London.
15. 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.
16. Stereoscopic electron micrograms, exhibited by Anthony E. Ennos and Michael Edward Haine, Associated Electrical Industries Research Laboratory.
17. Research on tropical medicine, exhibited by John D. Fulton and Frank Hawking, National Institute for Medical Research.
Room 6:
18. Some recent work on plant and insect viruses, exhibited by the Virus Research Unit, Agricultural Research Council, Molteno Institute, Cambridge.
19. Le Rolland-Sorin elastometer, exhibited by M. le Roland, Director of Research, Institut Superieur des Materiaux et de la Construction Mecanique.
20. Life habits of marine polychaete worms, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
21. Some experiments on bird navigation, exhibited by Geoffrey Vernon Townsend Matthews, Zoological Laboratory, Cambridge, Denys Haigh Wilkinson, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
Meeting Room:
A film will be shown at 9.15 and 10 p.m. as under -
'The spawning behaviour of the Atlantic salmon', photographed by Dr, J. W. Jones, Zoology Department, University of Liverpool, exhibited by John William Jones. |