| 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 1-4. The programme begins with a notice on the tercentenary of the birth of Robert Hooke, and an acknowledgment: 'By the courtesy of the President and Council of the Geological Society, their rooms have been opened for the occasion'. The Society's coat of arms is printed in red on the title page.
The three Royal Charters granted by King Charles II and the Charter Book of the Royal Society, exhibited by the Royal Society.
Room 1:
1. Film showing the forms of motion in unstable fluid (see also exhibit 8), exhibited by David Brunt.
2. Apparatus used in research into the psychological and physiological qualities necessary in motor drivers, exhibited by the National Institute of Industrial Research.
Room 2:
The Mace presented by King Charles II in 1663.
3. The effect of the frost of May 17th on the vegetation of the Royal Gardens, Kew, intra-specific variation in a wild population of the Cheddar pink (Dianthus caesius) from Cheddar Gorge, a hybrid swarm between two species of wild pansy (Viola tricolor sens. Lat., and V. arvensis sens; lat.) from near Gomshall, Surrey, exhibited by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
4. Mounted skeletons of a bipedal dinosaur Hypsilophodon (Dr. W. E. [William Elgin] Swinton), exhibited by the British Museum (Natural History) Department of Geology.
5. Exhibit of living marine animals (ecological), exhibited by the Marine Biological Laboratory, Plymouth.
Room 3:
6. The Lachish letters found at Tell el-Duweir, Palestine, 1935, exhibited by the Wellcome Archaeological Research Expedition to the Near East.
7. Chameleons from the mountains of East Africa (Mr. H. W. [Hampton Wildman] Parker), the significance of some differences between the sexes of the hairy frog (Trichobatrachus robustus, Boulenger) (Mr. H. W. Parker), inherited asymmetry in hermit crabs (Mr. J. D. [James David] Macdonald).
8. The forms of motion in unstable fluid (see also exhibit 1), exhibited by David Brunt.
9. Types of red and white clovers, exhibited by the Welsh Plant Breeding Station.
10. Abnormal regional distribution of colour in the heterozygote consequent on chromosome elimination, exhibited by the Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh.
11. A new phase of human evolution; Mount Carmel Man, exhibited by Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod, Sir Arthur Keith and Theodore Doney McCown.
12. Breaking of drops of one viscous fluid by motions of another fluid in which they are immersed, exhibited by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor.
13. Photographs showing aerial oxidation of a diamond face, exhibited by the Government Laboratory.
Room 4:
14. A tree kangaroo belonging to the genus Dendrolagus representing a race new to science, collected by Mr. F. Shaw Mayer in the Kratke Mountains, North-east New Guinea, in 1933, exhibited by Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild and Captain Guy Dollman.
15. Soil micro-organisms: certain chemical and biological relationships, exhibited by the Rothamsted Experimental Station.
16. A new mechanical hammer for geological work, apparatus for the manufacture of fine quartz and glass suspensions, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Limited.
17. Twin film polygraph and strobograph, exhibited by Ashley Gordon Lowndes.
18. The study of certain transformations in alloys (Dr. C. [Charles] Sykes, Dr. E. J. [Evan James] Williams, and Professor W. L. [William Lawrence] Bragg), the structure of phosphotungstic acid related compounds (Mr. J. F. [James Fargher] Keggin, Mr. J. W. Illingworth and Professor [Albert James] A. J. Bradley), exhibited by the Physical Laboratories of the University of Manchester.
19. Apparatus for making stereoscopic photographs with the microscope, exhibited by John Randal Baker.
20. Evaporimeter, ultra violet apparatus, manometer, exhibited by John Switzer Owens.
21. Sodium vapour lamps, exhibited by the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company.
22. Inherited flower abnormalities in Primula sinesis and P. kewensis (Dr. F. G. [Friedrich Gustav] Brieger, Miss D. [Dorothea] de Winton and Miss C. [Caroline] Pellew), British grasshoppers (Dr. F. W. [Frederick Whalley] Sansome and Mr. L. [Leonard Francis] La Cour), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institute.
23. Synthetic resins, exhibited by the Chemical Research Laboratory of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
24. Demonstration of the use of a petrological microscope, improved design of contact thermo-couple pyrometer, acoustic studies by Miss Mary D. Waller B.Sc., F.Inst.P., of the vibrating properties of various Hadfield special alloy steels, the poem 'Ferrum' composed in 1717 A.D., by Father Xavier de la Sante, bronze group by Frederick James Halnon, specimen blades of 'A.T.V.' (acier turbine vapeur) steel, exhibited by Sir Robert Hadfield.
25. Silica-glass and wind-worn rocks from the Libyan desert (Dr. L. J. Spencer), exhibited by the British Museum (Natural History) Department of Mineralogy.
26. To commemorate the tercentenary of the birth of Dr. Robert Hooke F.R.S., the following manuscripts and manuscript letters are shown - his diary, lent for the occasion by the Corporation of London, some manuscripts and manuscript letters, his published works, exhibited by the Royal Society.
27. Hooke microscope c.1675 made by Christopher Cock (exhibited by kind permission of Mr. Thomas H. Court), Hooke's compound microscope (copy), exhibited by the Science Museum.
28. Robert Hooke's hygroscope - the first attempt to construct an instrument to show 'The driness and moisture of Ambient air', exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
29. The use of vital staining methods in the study of regeneration, exhibited by Miss L. R. Dixey, Dr. F. Gross and Julian Sorell Huxley.
30. A yeast-like organism in the pollen grains of Camellia, exhibited by Reginald Ruggles Gates and Miss C. H. Lang.
31. Sundial for the new terrace at Rothampstead [e.g. Rothamsted] designed and constructed by Sir C. V. Boys F.R.S., exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
32. Auroral photographs from the British Polar Year Station, Fort Rae, N.W. Canada 1932-33, exhibited by the Meteorological Office.
33. The development in vitro of the human foetal lung (Dr. A. [Alfred] Glucksmann), the cultivation of teeth in vitro (Miss S. [Shirley] Glasstone.
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