| 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 1-9. The preamble to the catalogue of exhibits states that 'By 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. Radial cloud chamber for the projection of alpha-particle tracks, exhibited by Egon Bretscher.
2. Liquid crystalline preparations from virus-infected plants, (Mr. F. C. [Frederick Charles] Bawden and Mr. N. W. [Norman Wingate] Pirie), exhibited by the Rothamsted Experimental Station and the Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.
3. Radioactive nodules from Devonshire (Mr. Max Perutz), x-ray investigations of protein from virus infected plants (Mr. J. D. [John Desmond] Bernal and Dr. I. [Isador] Fankuchen), exhibited by the Crystallographic Laboratory, Cambridge.
4. Examples of materials fluorescent to 3,650 angstrom radiation, exhibited by the British Thomson-Houston Company.
Room 2:
The Mace presented by King Charles II in 1663.
5. Monophylly in Streptocarpus and Chirita, exhibited by Arthur William Hill, the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
6. Bulbil formation in Notholirion (Liliaceae), exhibited by Arthur Disbrowe Cotton.
7. An expedition to the Cyclops mountains of Dutch New Guinea (Miss L. E. [Lucy Evelyn] Cheesman), exhibited by the Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History).
8. Some marine burrowing and boring organisms, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
9. Models of protein molecules, exhibited by Dorothy Wrinch.
10. The metallurgy and metallography of special steels (Sir W. H. [William Herbert] Hatfield), exhibited by the Brown Firth Research Laboratories, Sheffield.
Room 3:
11. Chladni figures produced by means of solid carbon dioxide, exhibited by Mary Desiree Waller.
12. Variation in tails of Birds of Paradise (Mr. C. R. Stonor), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
13. Modifications of dominance in mice (Prof. R. A. [Ronald Aylmer] Fisher and Dr. K. [Kenneth] Mather), exhibited by the Galton Laboratory, University College.
14. The biological control of insect and plant pests, exhibited by the Farnham House Laboratory, Imperial Institute of Entomology.
15. Apparatus for measuring dielectric constants, automatic polarograph with recording pen, exhibited by the Government Laboratory.
16. Spiny mammals (Captain Guy Dollman), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
Room 4 (Principal Library):
17. Interferometer for direct routine measurement of end-gauges, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
18. Plant hormones or growth-promoting substances, exhibited by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited.
19. Electron microscope, model of multistage electron multiplier using fluorescent tubes, exhibited by the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company Limited.
20. A new photo-absorptiometer, a Null instrument with audio-detection, exhibited by Mr. G. S. Hartley.
21. X-ray investigations on alloys, exhibited by Dr. A. J. Bradley.
22. An instrument for the measurement of the dielectric constant and electrical conductivity of a material at frequencies from 10 4 and 10 8 cycles per second.
23. A subjective photometer, exhibited by William David Wright.
24. Travelling flames through ether-air media, exhibited by Dr. E. A. C. Chamberlain and Donald Thomas Alfred Townend.
25. Gauging and sorting machine, exhibited by the Cambridge Instrument Company Limited.
26. Band systems of diatomic oxides in the uncondensed discharge in air, exhibited by Dr. W. Jevons.
27. Metallurgical specimens with demonstrations of thermal effects on metals and their alloys, exhibited by Sir Robert Hadfield.
28. A projector for demonstrating the properties of thin sections of minerals and rocks in ordinary and polarised light, model of the crystal structure of Muscovite, micropycnometric method for the specific gravity of heavy solids, magmatic limestones from Nyasaland [Malawi], plate total reflectometer, a modified single dispersion method for the determination of the refractive indices of solids, exhibited by the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History).
29. Reconstruction of an Egyptian ship (about 1,300 B.C.), exhibited by the Science Museum.
30. An unrecorded portrait of John Dalton F.R.S., founder of the atomic theory, exhibited under a Zograscope, a contemporary optical instrument, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
31. Adaptive variations in molluscan radulae (Lieutenant-Colonel A J Peile), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
32. The Ipswich fossil glacier, exhibited by George Slater.
33. X-ray films of the lymphatic circulation in man, exhibited by Herbert Henry Woollard.
34. Dimorphism in male stag-beetles (Lucanidae) (Mr. Gilbert J. [John] Arrow), Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History).
35. Baird electron camera tube and multiplier photo electric cell, exhibited by Baird Television Limited.
36. The influence of soil-reaction on plant disease (Mr, G. Samuel and Mr. S. D. [Stephen Denis] Garrett), exhibited by the Rothamsted Experimental Station.
37. An unusual anatomical feature in a Trematode worm (Dr. H. A. [Harry Arnold] Baylis), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
Room 5:
38. A device for automatically synchronising a radio receiver with a transmitter, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
39. Microscope for use with ultra-violet light employing a reflecting optical system of aplanatic properties, exhibited by Benjamin King Johnson.
40. Cathode ray high speed transient recorder, exhibited by Standard Telephones and Cables Limited.
41. A new photoelectric absorptiometer, a flat field quartz spectrograph, the Hilger industrial demountable x-ray unit, exhibited by Adam Hilger Limited.
42. Apparatus for seismic prospecting, the Department of Geodesy and Geophysics of Cambridge University.
Room 6 (Ground Floor):
43. Acoustic equipment for the detection of destructive larvae in specimens of timber, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory and the Forest Products Research Laboratory.
Room 7:
44. Wind drag measurement by the momentum method, boundary layer measurement in flight, exhibited by the Department of Scientific Research, Air Ministry.
45. Motor with selenium cell commutator, exhibited by the British Thomson-Houston.
46. Cathode ray records of rapidly changing phenomena, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
Room 8:
47. The three Royal Charters granted by King Charles II, exhibited by the Royal Society.
48. The Charter-book of the Royal Society…together with facsimile reproductions, exhibited by the Royal Society.
49. The first volumes of Council Minutes, Journal Book and Register Book of the Royal Society, exhibited by the Royal Society.
50. Original manuscripts and manuscript letters of early Fellows of the Royal Society: Boyle, Flamsteed, Halley, Hooke, Huygens, Leeuwenhoek, Leibnitz, Malpighi and Newton, exhibited by the Royal Society.
51. A selection of original letters of famous explorers, exhibited by the Royal Society.
52. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin, exhibited by the Royal Society.
53. Diplomas and other original documents of Dr. William Hyde Wollaston together with the silver copy of the Royal Medal awarded to him in 1828. A recent gift to the Society from the family of the late George Hyde Wollaston, exhibited by the Royal Society.
54. A selection of medals from the Society's collection, exhibited by the Royal Society.
Room 9 (Meeting Room):
At 9.15 and 10.15 p.m.
Lecture on the Charter Book of the Royal Society (illustrated with lantern slides), exhibited by Edward Neville da Costa Andrade.
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