| 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. Discoveries made in interglacial beds beneath Trafalgar Square, exhibited by Dr. J. W. Franks, University Museum, Manchester, Mr. Michael P. Kerney, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, and Dr. Anthony John Sutcliffe, British Museum (Natural History).
2. The importance of rubber hysteresis in skidding friction, exhibited by the Road Research Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and Research Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
3. Observations of dislocations and other imperfections within inorganic crystals, exhibited by Associated Electrical Industries Research Laboratory, Aldermaston, H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Crystallography Laboratory, Cavendish Laboratory and Department of Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Metallurgy Division, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Tube Investments Research Laboratory, Cambridge.
Room 2:
4. Immunization against poliomyelitis, exhibited by Dr. D. G. Evans and Dr. F. T. Perkins, National Institute for Medical Research, London.
5. The incorporation of H3-Thymidine inthe nuclei of meristematic and elongating cells of roots, exhibited by Mr. Leonard Francis La Cour and Dr. Stephen R. Pelc, John Innes Horticultural Institution, and the Medical Research Council, Biophysics Unit, King's College, London.
6. Virus structure shown by new techniques in electron microscopy: a) negative staining of bacteriophage and other viruses, exhibited by Dr. Sydney Brenner, Mr. Robert W. Horne and Mrs. L. Barnett, Medical Research Unit for Molecular Biology and Electron Microscope Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge; b) positive staining with colour projection of electron microscope pictures, exhibited by Dr. R. C. Valentine, National Institute of Medical Research, London.
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:
7. Electronic properties of graphite and its crystal compounds, exhibited by Professor Alfred Rene Ubbelohde, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.
8. The deformation of solids at high rates of strain by liquid impact, exhibited by Dr. Frank Philip Bowden and Mr. J. H. Brunton, Research Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
9. Cutaneous nerve impulses in living rays, exhibited by Dr. R. W. Murray, Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology, University of Birmingham.
Room 5:
10. Flying spot opthalmoscope, exhibited by Mr. Peter Styles, Department of Medical Electronics, St. Thomas' Hospital, London.
11. Visual instability in stroboscopic light, exhibited by Dr. Donald MacCrimmon MacKay, Department of Physics, King's College, London.
12. An apparatus in which a monomolecular film of lecithin labelled with P32 is acted on by enzymes and the reaction recorded by geiger counter, exhibited by Dr. Alec Douglas Bangham and Dr. Rex M. C. Dawson, A.R.C. Instititute of Animal Physiology, Brabazon, Cambridge.
13. 'Cold Light' sources based on the radioisotope Krypton 85, exhibited by Dr. E. J. Wilson and Dr. J. D. H. Hughes, Isotope Research Division, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell.
14. Mesozoic ammonites from Antarctica, exhibited by the British Museum (Natural History), the work of the late Dr. Leonard Frank Spath and Dr. Michael Kingsley Howarth and members of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, including Sir Vivian Fuchs.
15. Electronic models in the study of cell-cell interactions and of the cybernetics of differentiation, exhibited by Dr. R. J. Goldacre and Mr. D. Bean, Chester Beatty Research Institute, London.
16. X-ray fluorescent spectrometer using radioisotopes as source, exhibited by Dr. G. B. Cook, Dr. C. E. Mellish and Mr. J. A. Payne, Isotope Research Division, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell.
17. Plastic behaviour of steel structures, exhibited by Professor John Fleetwood Baker, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.
18. Transmission from parent to offspring of environmentally induced changes in flax, exhibiited by Dr. A. Durrant, the Institute of Rural Science, Aberystwyth.
19. Daylength effects on flowering of Kalanchoe blossfeldiana, exhibited by Dr. Walter W. Schwabe, A.R.C. Unit of Plant Morphogenesis and Nutrition, Rothamsted Experimental Station.
20. The use of Moire fringe methods in measurement and machine control, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington.
Room 6:
21. Three ways of achieving buoyancy equilibrium found in marine animals, exhibited by Dr. Eric James Denton, Dr. John B. Gilpen-Brown and Dr. Trevor Ian Shaw, Marine Biological Laboratory Plymouth and Dr. Norman Bertram Marshall, British Museum (Natural History).
22. Colony variation in Sacchoramyces cerevisiae, exhibited by Dr. E. A. Bevan and Mr. B. Cox, Department of |Botany, University of Oxford.
23. The addition of rye chromosomes to wheat and the cytogenetic approach to wheat breeding by distant hybridization, exhibited by Dr. Ralph Riley, Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge.
Meeting Room:
The following film will be shown at 9.10, 9.50 and 10.30 p.m.: -
Radio astronomy in Australia, produced by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Film Unit in collaboration with the Division of Radio Physics. |