| 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 notes that guests would be received by the President [E. D. Adrian] and Lady Adrian, that a film would 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. Myxomatosis of rabbbits, exhibited by Mr. Harry V. Thompson and Dr. Robert Charles Muirhead Thomson, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
2. Evolution in birds of the Solomon Islands, exhibited by Dr. Arthur James Cain, Mr. I. C. J. Galbraith, Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, University of Oxford.
3. Radio-carbon dating of archaeological specimens, exhibited by Dr. A. R. Crathorn, lately of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution.
Room 2:
4. The Cambridge survey of radio stars, exhibited by Mr. Martin Ryle, Mr. John Evan Baldwin, and Mr. John R. Shakeshaft, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
5. Droplet impact gun, exhibited by the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Supply.
6. Swallowing in man: certain features of the mechanism as shown by X-ray cinematography, exhibited by Dr. G. M Ardran and Dr. F. H. Kemp, the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research.
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 [Sir Edward Salisbury] the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Room 4:
7. The fine structure of striated muscle and the mechanism of muscular contraction, exhibiited by Dr. Jean Hanson, King's College, London, and Dr. Hugh Esmor Huxley, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
8. Air pollution in the British Isles and its effect on the spread of industrial melanism in thelepidoptera, exhibited by Dr. Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell, Genetics Laboratory, University Museum, Oxford.
Room 5:
9. New red phosphors and their temperature-dependence, exhibited by Mr. A. H. McKeag and Mr. E. Power, Research Laboratories, The General Electric Company Limited.
10. A stereoscopic illusion, exhibited by Dr. Robert A. Weale, M.R.C. Group for Research in the Physiology of Vision, Institute of Ophthalmology, London.
11. Macrocyclic pigments of the porphyrin and azaporphin type, exhibited by Dr. U. Eisner, Dr. John Arthur Elvidge, Dr. G. E. Ficken, Dr. Reginald Patrick Linstead and Dr. M. Whalley, Imperial College of Science and Technology.
12. The growth and domain structure of ferroelectric single crystals, exhibited by Mr. L. A. Thomas and Dr. E. A. D. White, Research Laboratories, The General Electric Company Limited.
13. The electric contact, exhibited by Dr. M. R. Hopkins, Mr. C. R. Jones and Professor Frank Llewellyn Jones, Department of Physics, University College of Swansea.
14. Sound transmission through the normal chest, exhibited by Dr. Arthur John Buller, and Dr. Antony Clifford Dornhorst, St. Thomas's Hospital, London.
15. Model of the experimental heat pump installed at the Royal Festival Hall in 1951, exhibited by the Science Museum.
16. (a) Study of the friction of metals at very high speeds. (b) Sliding in snow and ice and the development of some new fast running skis, exhibited by Dr. Frank Philip Bowden and Mr. E. H. Freitag, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Cambridge.
17. Classification of the genus Dianthus, exhibited by Miss Sheila Spenser Hooper, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
18. Some applications of radioactive isotopes in polymer chemistry, exhibited by Dr. John C. Bevington and Professor Harry Work Melville, Department of Chemistry, University of Birmingham.
19. Chemotheraphy of plant viruses, exhibited by Dr. Richard Ellis Ford Matthews and Dr. J. D. Smith, Agricultural Research Council, Virus Research Unit, Cambridge.
Room 6:
20. Invertebrate animals from the tidal zone of the sea shore, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
21. A model of an Andreau windmill, exhibited by the Chief Engineer's Department, Central Electricity Authority.
22. How a spider constructs its web: stages in the construction of theorb web of Araneus diadematus Clerck, exhibited by Dr. G. O. Evans, and Mr. Macer-Wright, Department of Zoology and Exhibition Section, British Museum (Natural History).
23. The analysis of bird song, exhibited by Dr. William Homan Thorpe, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.
Meeting Room:
The following film will be shown at 9.15, 9.45 and 10.15 p.m.: -
The physiological applications of cimematography at high speeds (1000 to 2000 frames/sec), exhibited by Dr. D. A. MacDonald, Department of Physiology, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London. Cinematography by John Hadland, Chipperfield, Hertfordshire. |