| 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 [Cyril Norman Hinshelwood], 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. Direct observation of crystal lattices and their imperfections in the electron microscope, exhibited by Dr. James Woodham Menter, Tube Investments Research Laboratories, Cambridge.
2. The constitution of English white chalk, exhibited by Dr. Maurice Black, Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.
3. The fauna and flora of Pleistocene deposits at Upton Warren, Worcestershire (Irish Sea glaciation), exhibited by Mr. John Balfour-Browne, British Museum (Natural History), Mr. Geoffrey Russell Coope, Professor Frederick William Shotton and Dr. Isles Strachan, Geology Department, University of Birmingham.
Room 2:
4. Experimental and taxonomic studies on marsh orchids, exhibited by Professor John Heslop-Harrison and Mrs. Yolande Heslop-Harrison, Queen's University, Belfast.
5. The Royal Society Antarctic Expedition for the International Geophysical Year,exhibited by the Royal Society.
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:
6. An apparatus for studying the insect in free flight, exhibited by Mr. C. O. Booth and Mr. John Stodart Kennedy, Agricultural Research Council Unit of Insect Physiology, Zoology Department, University of Cambridge.
7. The fine-structure of some ciliate protozoa, exhibited by Professor John Turton Randall, Wheatstone Laboratory, King's College, London.
8. X-ray diffraction study of the structure of coal, exhibited by Dr. L. Cartz, Mr. R. Diamond and Dr. Peter Bernhard Hirsch, the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
Room 5:
9. The cause of a Blue Moon, exhibited by Professor Reginald Victor Jones, Department of Natural Philosophy, University of Aberdeen.
10. Some scientific results of the 1955 airborne magnatometer survey of the English Midlands financed by the Nuffield Foundation, exhibited by Dr. William Bullerwell, Geological Survey of Great Britain.
11. A juvenile armoured dinosaur, exhibited by the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
12. The growth of semiconductor crystals. Solar energy conversion, exhibited by Associated Electrical Industries Limited, Solid-State Physics Section, Research Laboratory, Aldermaston.
13. Early apparatus of Sir J. J. Thomson, exhibited by the Museum of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
14. The structure of vitamin B12, exhibiited by Dr. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Chemical Crystallography Laboratory, University of Oxford, Dr. Ernest Lester Smith, Glaxo Laboratories Limited, Professor Alan Woodworth Johnson and Sir Alexander Todd, the Chemical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
15. Electron microscopy of nerve, muscle and synapses, exhibited by Dr. J. David Robertson, Department of Anatomy, University College, London.
16. Cup, chalice or goblet portable sundial dated 1596, exhibiited by the Science Museum.
17. Aircraft crash accelerometer and apparatus for dynamic calibration, exhibited by Mr. D. A. Harding, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington.
18. Refined molecular models of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) and nucleoprotamine, exhibited by Mr. C. W. Hooper, Mr. R. Langridge, Dr. W. E. Seeds, Dr. Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins and Dr. Herbert Rees Wilson, Biophysics Research Unit, King's College, London.
Room 6:
19. Marine animals from sublittoral rocks, exhibited by Mr. G. R. Forster and Mr. S. M. Nunn, Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
20. Elastic properties of the insect thorax, exhibited by Dr. Torkel Weis-Fogh, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.
21. The hormonal control of pigment movements in prawns, exhibited by Dr. D. B. Carlisle, Marine Bological Association of the United Kingdom and Sir Francis Knowles, Marlborough College.
Meeting Room:
The following film will be shown at 9.10, 9.50 and 10.30 p.m.: -
Evolution in progress. The story of natural selection and 'industrial melanism', exhibited by Dr. Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell, Departmentof Zoology, University of Oxford. Cinematography by Dr. Niko Tinbergen, Departmentof Zoology, University of Oxford. |