| 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'.
Room 1:
1. Flying spot microscope, exhibited by Mr. D. Causley, Mr. G. Norrie, Mr. F. Roberts, Professor John Zachary Young, University College, London.
2. Infra-red high-speed spectrometer, exhibited by Dr. Robert Allan Smith, Physics Department, Telecommunications Research Establishment, Malvern.
3. Optical methods in X-ray analysis, exhibited by Dr. Henry (Solomon) Lipson, Department of Physics, College of Technlogy, Manchester.
Room 2:
4. Sommerfeld-Goubau surface waves on wires, exhibited by Professor Harold Monteagle Barlow, Dr. Alexander Lamb Cullen, University College, London.
5. A remarkable property of Germanium, exhibited by Mr. B. S. Cooper, Mr. John Walter Ryde, the General Electric Company Limited, Research Laboratories.
6. An X-ray tube with extremely fine focal spot for microradiography, exhibited by Dr. Vernon Ellis Cosslett, Mr. W. E. Nixon, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
7. Sisal as a source of raw material for the synthesis of cortisone, exhibited by Dr. Robert Kenneth Callow, Dr. John Warcup Cornforth, Dr. J. M. Osbond, Dr. P. C. Spensley, National Institute for Medical Research.
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.
8. Oil painting of the last movable woad mill ca. 1900, exhibited by the Sceince Museum.
9. Original printing telegraph (1841) invented by Charles Wheatstone, F.R.S., exhibited by Mr. Gerald Reginald Mansell Garratt, the Science Museum.
Room 4:
10. A model machine demonstrating the drawing of ''Terylene' polyester fibre, exhibiited by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited.
11. An unusual synthesis of Acanthite crystals, exhibited by Dr. Frederick Allen Bannister, British Museum (Natural History), Professor Archibald Vivian Hill, University College, London.
12. An X-ray microbeam investigation of the structure of cold worked metals, exhibited by Dr. P. Gay, Dr. Peter Bernard Hirsch, Mr. A. Kelly, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
13. Electric sense in fish, exhibited by Dr. Hans Werner Lissmann, Department of Zoology, Cambridge University.
14. The study of the vertical distribution of insects in the air with tow-nets and disk-dropping suction traps, exhibited by Dr. C. G. Johnson, Rothamsted Experimental Station.
15. Model illustrating a point in information theory, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory (Mathematics Division and Electronics Section).
Room 5:
16. Miniature radio link transistors, exhibited by Standard Telecommunications Laboratories Limited.
17. Spontaneous activity at the nerve-muscle junction, exhibited by Dr. Paul Fatt, Professor Bernard Katz, Biophysics Department, University College, London.
18. An apparatus for studying thermal convection under the influence of strong coriolis forces, exhibited by Mr. Raymond Hide, Geophysics Laboratory, Cambridge.
19. An ameboid organism which feeds on larvae of the potato root eelworm, Heterodera rostochiensis, exhibited by Dr. P. A. van der Laan, Professor A. J. P. Oort, Professor A. Ph. Weber, Mr. L. O. Zwillenberg, Laboratory for Phytopathology, Wageningen, Holland.
20. Flowers of Williamsonia, exhibited by Professor Thomas Maxwell Harris, the University, Reading.
21. An apparatus designed for the continuous culture of bacteria in the steady state, exhibited by Mr. C. J. Perret, National Institute for Medical Research.
22. Effect of high temperature on the behaviour of virus-infected plants, exhibited by Dr. Basil Kassanis, Rothamsted Experimental Station.
23. Synthetic sapphire, ruby and titanium dioxide crystals, exhibited by Mr. R. C. Chirnside, Mr. L. A. Dauncey, Mr. H. P. Rooksby, Mr. D. G. Timms, the General Electric Company Limited, Research Laboratories.
24. Demonstration of the mechanical effect of microwave power circulating in a high Q-factor cavity resonator, exhibited by Mr. R. A. Bailey, Mr. C. M. Burrell, Radar Research and Development Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Malvern.
25. 'The equatorie of the planetis' from Peterhouse MS.71(1) written in 1392 and believed to be a holograph work by Geoffrey Chaucer, exhibited by Dr. D. J. Price, Christ's College, Cambridge.
26. Blood groups and anthropology, exhibited by Dr. Arthur Ernest Mourant, Miss E. W. Ikin, Miss D. M. Parkin, Blood Group Reference Laboratory, Medical Research Council.
Room 6:
27. Living rare tropical rodents, exhibited by the Zoological Society of London.
28. Living staphylinid beetles which skim over the surface of water by lowering the surface tension behind them, exhibited by Dr. Howard Everest Hinton, University of Bristol.
29. Living marine animals, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
30. Luminescence of the polychaete worm Chaetopterus, exhibited by Dr. J. A. C. Nicol, Mr. F. J. Warren, Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
Meeting Room:
The following films will be shown at 9.15, 9.45 and 10.15 p.m.: -
(1) Amibe mycophage, exhibited by Dr. J. Comandon and Dr. P. de Fonbrune, Institut Pasteur, Garches, introduced by Dr. Tom Goodey.
(2) Amibe ingerant des algues oscillaires (Amoeba verrucosa), exhibited by Dr. J. Comandon and Dr. P. de Fonbrune, Institut Pasteur, Garches, introduced by Dr. Tom Goodey. |