| 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. The magnetic separation of glomeruli from the kidney, exhibited by Mr. W. F. Cook and Professor Sir George Pickering, the Radcliffe Informary, Oxford.
2. Electron microscopy of Amoeba proteus, exhibited by Dr. E. H. Mercer, Chester Beatty Research Institute, London.
3. Equipment for polar physiology, exhibited by Mr. Heinz Siegfried Wolff, Bio-engineering Laboratory, Division of Human Physiology, National Institute for Medical Research.
4. A modern sledging ration, exhibited by Dr. H. E. Lewis and Dr. J. P. Masterton, Division of Human Physiology, National Institute for Medical Research and Mr. T. C. Gallant, Metal Box Company, London.
Room 2:
5. Surface treatment of semiconductor crystals, exhibited by Associated Electrical Industries Limited, Solid State Physics Section, Research Laboratory, Aldermaston.
6. The radio observations on the Russian Earth satellites, exhibited by members of the Royal Society Working Group on Radio Emissions from Earth Satellites.
7. The impregnation of timber by copper preservatives; the ordered chemical adsorption of metals on cellulose microfibrils, exhibited by Mr. D. S. Belford, Mr. C. D. Cook, Dr. A. Myers, Mr. E. H. Nevard and Professor Reginald Dawson Preston, Department of Botany, University of Leeds.
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. Non-adaptive variation in the snail Cepaea nemoralis, exhibited by Dr. Charles Burford Goodhart, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.
9. Dinosaur brains, exhibited by Dr. William Elgin Swinton, the Palaeontological Department, British Museum (Natural History).
10. A new design of fluid flow meter, exhibited by Dr. Basil Martin Wright, National Institute for Medical Research.
11. Reception of frequency-modulated transmissions: distortion caused by long-delayed echoes, exhibited by the Research Department, (Engineering Division), the British Broadcasting Corporation.
12. Early cine-cameras for the analysis of animal movement, exhibited by the Science Museum.
13. The nucleation and growth of ice crystals, exhibited by Dr. Basil John Mason with Mr. G. W. Bryant, Mr. J. Hallett, Mr. A. P. van den Heuval and Mr. J. Maybank, Department of Meteorology, Dr. Moses Blackman and Dr. Norman D. Lisgarten, Physics Department, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.
Room 5:
14. Measuring the water-permeability of an insect: apparatus incorporating a novel thermostat, exhibited by Dr. James William Longman Beament and Dr. Kenneth E. Machin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.
15. Widely divergent effects of natural selection on the closely related polymorphic snails Cepaea nemoralis abd C. hortensis, exhibited by Dr. Arthur James Cain and Mr. B. C. Clarke, Department of Zoology, University Museum, Oxford.
16. Pneumatic instrument for measuring accurately the thickness of flexible films, exhibited by Dr. James Charles Evans and Mr. I. G. Morgan. Metrology Division, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington.
17. Interferon: an inhibitor of virus growth, exhibited by Dr. Derek C. Burke and Dr. Alick Isaacs, National Institute for Medical Research.
18. Some functions of the 'ornament' on fossil brachiopods, exhibited by Mr. Martin John Spencer Rudwick, Department of Geology, University of Cambridge.
19. Mechanics, chemistry and genetics of chromosomes, exhibited by Professor Cyril Dean Darlington, Dr. D. Davidson, Dr. K. R. Lewis and Dr. George Wenham Shaw, Botany School, University of Oxford.
20. Electrostatic friction machine, exhibited by the Science Museum.
21. Properties of circular diffraction gratings, exhibited by Associated Electrical Industries Limited, Optics, Research Laboratory, Aldermaston.
22. Potato blight forecasting, exhibited by Mr. E. C. Large, Plant Pathology Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Harpenden, and Mr. L. P. Smith, Meteorological Office, Harrow.
23. Translocation of radioactive carbon compounds in the tobacco plant (Nicotiana var. White Burley), exhibited by Dr. H. Jones, Mr. R. V. Martin, and Dr. Helen K. Porter, Research Institute of Plant Physiology, Imperial College of Science and Technology.
24. 'Sceptre' and museum of original pieces, exhibited by Associated Electrical Industries Limited, Controlled Thermonuclear Reaction Section,, Research Laboratory, Aldermaston.
Room 6:
25. Some animal communities of the sea-bed off Plymouth, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
26. Quantitative studies of mimicry, cryptic colouration, and courtship in Lepidoptera, exhibited by Dr. Lincoln P. Brower and Dr. Jane Van Zandt Brower, Genetics Laboratory, The Museum, Oxford.
27. Polymorphic mimicry in the African butterfly Papilio dardanus, exhibited by Dr. Cyril Astley Clarke, Department of Medicine and Dr. Philip. MacDonald Sheppard, Department of Zoology, University of Liverpool.
Meeting Room:
The following film will be shown at 9.10, 9.50 and 10.30 p.m.: -
Transonic flight, by the Shell Film Unit. |