| 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. Radiocarbon dating of the late-glacial period inthe British Osles, exhibited by Dr. Harry Godwin and Dr. E. H. Wills, Sub-department of Quaternary Research, University of Cambridge.
2. Equipment for polar physiology, exhibited by Mr. Heinz Siegfried Wolff, Bio-engineering Laboratory, Division of Human Physiology, National Institute for Medical Research.
3. 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:
4. The radio observations on the Russian Earth satellites, exhibited by members of the Royal Society Working Group on Radio Emissions from Earth Satellites.
5. 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:
6. Interferon: an inhibitor of virus growth, exhibited by Dr. Derek C. Burke and Dr. Alick Isaacs, National Institute for Medical Research.
7. Early cine-cameras for the analysis of animal movement, exhibited by the Science Museum.
8. 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:
9. 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.
10. Widely divergent effects of natural selection on the closely related polymorphic snails Cepaea nemoralis and C. hortensis, exhibited by Dr. Arthur James Cain and Mr. B. C. Clarke, Department of Zoology, University Museum, Oxford.
11. Chinese Green, or Lakao - a traditional plant dye stuff, exhibited by Dr. John T. Braunholtz and Dr. R. Hill, Department of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.
12. A three-dimensional model of the protein Myoglobin, exhibited by Dr. G. Bodo, Dr. Howard M. Dintzis, Dr. John Cowdrey Kendrew, Dr. R. G. Parrish and Dr. Harold Wyckoff, Medical Research Council Unit for Molecular Biology, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, and Dr. D. C. Phillips, Davy Faraday Laboratory, Royal Institution, London.
13. Some functions of the 'ornament' on fossil brachiopods, exhibited by Mr. Martin John Spencer Rudwick, Department of Geology, University of Cambridge.
14. The imitation of learning by a conditional probablity machine, exhibited by Dr. Albert Maurel Uttley and Dr. A. M. Andrew, Control Mechanisms and Electronics Division, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington.
15. Electrostatic friction machine, exhibited by the Science Museum.
16. Electron microscopy of Amoeba proteus, exhibited by Dr. E. H. Mercer, Chester Beatty Research Institute, London.
17. Properties of circular diffraction gratings, exhibited by Associated Electrical Industries Limited, Optics, Research Laboratory, Aldermaston.
18. 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.
19. 'Sceptre' and museum of original pieces, exhibited by Associated Electrical Industries Limited, Controlled Thermonuclear Reaction Section,, Research Laboratory, Aldermaston.
Room 6:
20. Some animal communities of the sea-bed off Plymouth, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
21. Structure of bacteriophage, exhibited by Mrs. L. Barnett, Dr. Sydney Brenner, Mr. Sewell P. Champe and Dr. George Streisinger, Medical Research Council Unit for Molecular Biology, Cavendish Laboratory, and Mr. R. W. Horne, Electron Microscope Section, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
22. Plants and the weather - as illustrated by the effects of environmental factors on shoots of the raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.), exhibited by Miss J. M. Cook, Professor J. P. Hudson and Dr. I. H. Williams, Depertment of Horticulture, University of Nottingham School of Agriculture.
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. |