| 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. The programme begins with a notice of a film show and an acknowledgment: 'By the courtesy of the President and Council of the Geological Society, their rooms have been opened for this 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. Demonstration of recent work on luminescent materials, exhibited by the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company.
2. A model illustrating the working of a cathode ray tube in a modern television receiver, exhibited by the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company.
3. Spectra of electric discharges in mercury vapour at high and medium pressures, special discharge lamp for use in the stroboscopic examination of moving machinery, fluorescence of materials excited by the 3650 line obtained from the mercury vapour discharge, exhibited by the British Thomson-Houston Company Limited.
Room 2:
The Mace presented by King Charles II in 1663.
4. The Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) and the Panda (Ailurus fulgens) (Captain Guy Dollman), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
5. Metallurgy of modern steels (Dr. W. H. [William Herbert] Hatfield), exhibited by the Brown-Firth Research Laboratories.
6. New type of magnetic force inductor, new type of recording magnetometer, vibration galvanometer working on the Wiedemann effect, exhibited by the Department of Scientific Research and Experiment, Admiralty.
7. Model anchors, exhibited by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor.
Room 3:
8. The control of radiant heat, exhibited by Guy Pascoe Crowden.
9. Photographs of a conical-headed 2-pdr., shell in flight, exhibited by the Research Department, Woolwich (Directorate of Ballistics Research).
10. Tachistoscope for experiments on perception and recognition, aesthesiometer for exploration of cutaneous sensitivity, habituation of the blink reflex, exhibited by the Cambridge Psychological Laboratory.
11. Ecology of a rocky sea-shore, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
12. Models illustrating noise abatement in houses (Dr. G. W. C. [George William Clarkson] Kaye and Dr. J. E. R. Constable), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
13. Photomicrographs of nerve endings in human skin, exhibited by Herbert Henry Woollard.
14. Hormones controlling growth in an insect, exhibited Vincent Brian Wigglesworth (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine).
15. The surface temperature of sliding metals, surface flow, polish and the formation of the Beilby layer, exhibited by Frank Philip Bowden.
16. The coagulation of smoke by sound waves, exhibited by Edward Neville da Costs Andrade.
17. The detection of small quantities of radioactive substances (Professor F. L. [Frank Lloyd] Hopwood and staff), exhibited by the Physics Department of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
18. Cambridge size tester (Currier patent), exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Limited.
19. Photo-electric measurement of oxygen content in small quantities of blood, exhibited by Glenn Allan Millikan.
(not numbered). Bust of Michael Faraday by Mrs Feridah Forbes, presented to the Royal Society by Sir Robert Hadfield, exhibited by the Royal Society.
20. Head of John Evelyn F.R.S. one of the founders of the Royal Society, carved in oak in high relief, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
21. An ultra-violet microscope for micro-metallurgy, (Mr. J. Smiles and Mr. H. Wrighton), exhibited by the National Institute for Medical Research.
22. Pure tone photo-acoustic siren, exhibited by Hamilton Hartridge, Charles Skinner Hallpike and Mr. A. F. Rawdon-Smith.
23. Synchronous responses in the cercal nerve of the cricket, exhibited by Richard Julius Pumphrey and Mr. A. F. Rawdon-Smith.
24. Cossor-Robertson cardiograph, exhibited by Douglas Robertson.
25. Self-recording dilatometer, medallion portrait of His Majesty King Edward VIII, combined travellers' compass and sundial made about the year 1700 and preserved in its original case, exhibited by Sir Robert Hadfield.
26. Ancient Chinese glass, exhibited by Charles Gabriel Seligman, Mr. H. Beck and Dr. P. D. Ritchie.
27. Dr. William Stukeley's MS. 'Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton', exhibited by the Royal Society.
28. The pituitary gland of the eel (Anguilla) and the secretory changes that occur before migration, the innervation of the pituitary gland in Pleuronectes, exhibited by Harold Muir Evans.
29. Inheritance of flower colour in Petunia (Dr. F. G. [Friedrich Gustav] Brieger), sterility and sexual incompatibility in fruit trees (Mr. M. B. [Morley Benjamin] Crane), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institution.
30. Mineral specimens illustrating (a) interrupted crystal growth (ghosts and zoned inclusions) and (b) Buerger's lineage theory of crystal growth, minerals used as pigments, gypsum calcium carbonate and earlandite from deep-sea deposits, enlarges x-ray photographs of zeolites, exhibited by the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History).
Room 5:
31. Diorama - a primeval coal swamp, exhibited by the Director, Geological Survey and Museum.
Room 6 (Meeting Room):
A film will be shown as under:
At 9.45 p.m. and 10.30 p.m.
Model anchors (see exhibit no.7), exhibited by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor.
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