| 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, that 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'. Title page (front cover) text and Royal Society coat-of-arms printed in red.
Room 1:
1. Fast multiple frame photography, exhibited by Dr, J. S. Courtney-Pratt, Research Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces, Department of Physical Chemistry, Cambridge.
2. The action of detergent solutions on soiled textile fibres, exhibited by Mr. D. G. Stevenson, British Launderers' Research Association.
3. Some scientific aids used in the examination of old master paintings, exhibited by the National Gallery, Scientific Department.
4. Colour transparencies of the supersonic flow past an aerofoil, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory (Douglas William Holder, Robert J. North).
Room 2:
5. The hydrothermal synthesis of large quartz crystals and the removal of electrical twinning in quartz, exhibited by Mr. C. S. Brown, Mr. R. C. Kell, Mr. L. A. Thomas, the General Electric Company Ltd., Research Laboratories, and Dr. William Alfred Wooster, Dr. Nora Wooster, Brooklyn Crystallographic Laboratory, Cambridge.
6. Regulator clock, with gridiron pendulum made for the Royal Society by John Shelton in 1760, exhibited by the Royal Society.
7. Dinosaur skin impressions, exhibited by Dr. W. E. Swinton, Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
8. Mechanism of glacier flow: a) direct measurement of the velocity distribution inside a glacier, exhibited by Dr. Max Ferdinand Perutz, Mr. D. A. G. Broad, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, Dr. J. A. F. Gerrard, Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, Cambridge, Dr. C. Jason, Physics Department, Birkbeck College, London. b) A new theory of glacier motion and the development of thrust planes, exhibited by Mr. M. V. Lewis, Mr. J. W. McCall, Department of Geography, Cambridge. Dr. John Frederick Nye, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
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.
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, by Isaac Newton. Original manuscript in the hand of Humphrey Newton, an amanuensis. Recently restored and rebound by the Public Record Office.
Floral exhibit, by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Room 4:
9. An opposed pair of bicycle ergometers, exhibited by Mr. B. C. Abbott, Mr. J. M. Ritchie, University College, London.
10. The ruling and copying of diffraction gratings, illustrating an investigation suggested by Sir Thomas Merton, Treas. R.S., exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory (Light Divison).
Room 5:
11. An experimental demonstration and study of the vertical migration of plankton animals, exhibited by Professor Alister Clavering Hady, Mr. R. Bainbridge, Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Oxford.
12. Automatic apparatus for pharmacological assay, exhibited by Mr. J. L. Mongar, Dr. Heinz Otto Schild, University College, London.
13. 'Selective flotation' applied to metal and mineral powders, exhibited by Dr. J. H. Schulman, Dr. G. A. Wolstenholme, Colloid Science Department, Cambridge.
14. Interference filters andother applications of interference films prepared by vacuum deposition, exhibited by Dr. K. M. Greenland, British Scientific Instrument Research Association.
15. Schematic model of polar-front depression, exhibited by the Science Museum.
16. Photography of the sea floor, exhibited by Dr. H. G. Vevers, Plymouth Laboratory, Marine Biological Association.
17. Cold pressure welding of aluminium, exhibited by Mr. R. K. Hilton, Mr. A. B. Sowter, the General Electric Company, Research Laboratories.
18. Ion-exchange resins - the effect of cross-linking on the behaviour of cation-exchange resins, exhibited by Mr. D. K. Hale, Dr. K. W. Pepper, Chemical Research Laboratory.
19. The ability to estimate fractional degrees of loudness with and without superimposed noise, exhibited by Mr. F. H. Brittain, Mr. W. I. Heath, the General Electric Company Limited.
20. Liquid-gas partition chromatography, exhibited by Dr. A. T. James, Dr. Archer John Porter Martin, National Institute for Medical Research.
21. Past climactic changes as revealed by deep-sea cores, exhibited by Dr. J. D. H. Wiseman, Mr. C. D. Ovey, Departments of Mineralogy and Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
Room 6:
22. Exhibit of potassium salts discovered in North-East Yorkshire, exhibited by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited.
23. Exhibition of living marine animals, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
24. The botany and chemistry of Strophanthus species, exhibited by Dr. R. K. Callow, Mr. R. D. Meikle, Dr. D. A. H. Taylor, Medical Research Council Medicinal Plants Survey, Nigeria, 1949-1950; the National Institute for Medical Research and the Royal Botanic Gardens.
Meeting Room:
The following films will be shown at 9.15 and 10.15 p.m.: -
(1) Freezing and thawing of living cells, exhibited by Mr. C. Polge, Mr. J. Smiles, Dr. A. U. Smith, National Institute for Medical Research, London.
(2) Medical aspects of venomous snakes, exhibited by the Wellcome Foundation Limited. |