| 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 two films 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. Irradiation damage in solids, exhibited by Dr. C. D. Clark, Professor Robert William Ditchburn and Dr. Edgar William John Mitchell, University of Reading, Dr. R. S. Barnes, Mr. N. H. Hancock, Mr. T. Jones, Mr. E. Silk, and Mr. M. W. Thomson, Metallurgy Division, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell.
2. Friction between road surface and tyre under wet conditions, exhibited by the Road Research Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
3. The less common metals employed in the atomic power industry, exhibited by Mr. L. Rotherham, United Kingdon Atomic Energy Authority's Industrial Group.
Room 2:
4. Stimulation of plant growth by gibberellic acid, exhibited by Dr. P. W. Brian, Mr. H. G. Hemming and Miss Margaret Radley, Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, Akers Research Laboratories, Welwyn.
5. The contact and adhesion between molecularly smooth mica surfaces, exhibited by Dr. Anita Irene Bailey, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Cambridge.
6. The antigenic differences among Solanum species and their use in taxonomy, exhibited by Dr. Philip George Houthem Gell, Dr. John Gregory Hawkes and Dr. S. T. C. Wright, University of Birmingham.
7. Compensatory rolling movements of the eyes in man, exhibited by Dr. P. A. Merton, Medical Research Council, Neurological Research Unit, National Hospital for Nervous Diseases.
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.
Room 4:
8. Botanical Society of the British Isles distribution maps scheme, exhibited by Dr. Franklyn Hugh Perring and Dr. Stuart Max Walters, University Botanic Garden, Cambridge.
9. Transistor dekatron telephone exchange register, exhibited by Mr. J. B. Warman and Mr. D. B. Bibb, Research Laboratory Siemens-Ediswan Limited.
10 The eggs of dinosaurs, exhibited by the Palaeontological Department, British Museum (Natural History).
11. Model of the insulin molecule, exhibited by Dr. Frederick Sanger, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.
12. Structure of viruses, exhibited by Dr. Rosalind Elsie Franklin, Birkbeck College, London, Dr. Kenneth Manley Smith and Dr. Robley C. Williams, Agricultural Research Council, Virus Research Unit, Cambridge.
13. A demonstration illustrating the principle of electronic computing, exhibited by Ferranti Limited (Computer Department).
Room 5:
14. Application of the Schlieren technique to the study of ripples, exhibited by Mr. W. Llowarch, University of London Institute of Education.
15. Working diffusion cloud chamber with reprojection apparatus, exhibited by Mr. D. J. H. Wort, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
16. Model experiments in natural convection, exhibited by Mr. Frank Henry Ludlam, Mr. Peter M. Saunders, Dr. Richard Segar Scorer, and Miss Betsy Woodward, Department of Meteorology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.
17. The cytoplasm in differentiation, ageing, adaptation and mutation in fungi, exhibited by Mr. C. F. Arlett, Miss Pauline G. Briault and Dr. John Leonard Jinks, Agricultural Research Council, Unit of Biometric Genetics, University of Birmingham.
18. New techniques for the microscopic study of natural and artificial minerals, exhibited by Mr. J. H. Welch, Building Research Station, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and Mr. Stanley Hay Umphray Bowie, and Mr. K. Taylor, Atomic Energy Division, Geological Survey of Great Britain.
19. The observation of the atomic array and of defects in metal crystal lattices by electron microscopy, exhibited by Mr. G. A. Bassett, Dr. James Woodham Menter and Dr. D. W. Pashley, Tube Investments Research Laboratories, Cambridge.
20. An artificial respirator for new-born infants, exhibited by the Midwifery Department, University of Glasgow and Physics Department, Western Regional Hospital Board, Glasgow.
21. A thermal comparator - a device for the rapid comparison of thermal conductivities, exhibited by Dr. Reginald W. Powell, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington.
22. The application of the fluorescence microscope in histochemical studies of normal and pathological specimens, exhibited by Mr. J. A. Armstrong and Dr. Janet Simpson Ferguson Niven, National Institute for Medical Research.
23. Exhibit celebrating the tercentenary of Huygens's application of the pendulum to clocks, exhibiited by the Science Museum.
24. Brownian motion demonstration, exhibited by the Science Museum.
25. Inherited differences in human serum proteins (haptoglobulins), exhibited by Dr. Anthony Clifford Allison and Mr. W. ap Rees, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.
Room 6:
26. Colours and patterns of sea animals, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
27. The living scallop, new photo-transparencies in colour of Pecten maximus and Chlamys opercularis to illustrate swimming and other features, exhibited by the Shell Petroleum Company Limited (photography by Dr. Douglas Patrick Wilson, Marine Biological Association, Plymouth).
28. The Lampbrush chromosomes of the newt Triturus cristatus carnifex, exhibited by Professor Harold Garnet Callan and Mrs. L. Lloyd, Department of Natural History, University of St. Andrews.
Meeting Room:
The following films will be shown at 9.10, 9.50 and 10.30 p.m.: -
Reproductive phenomena in Gastrotheca marsupiatum, exhibited by Professor Emmanuel Ciprian Amorosa and Miss J. H. Austin, Royal Veterinary College, London, and Dr. J. F. D. Frazer, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School (cinematography by Mr. A. R. Goffin and Mr. E. Langford.
The motion of dislocations in metals, exhibited by Dr. Peter Bernhard Hirsch, Mr. R. W. Horne and Mr. M. J. Whelan, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. |