| 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'. With an inserted errata slip giving details of an alteration to the film programme, noting that the film 'The ruby-throated humming bird' would be exhibited by Laurence B. Fletcher, President of the Natural History Society of Boston, Massachussets, introduced by Gavin Rylands de Beer. Title page (front cover) text and Royal Society coat-of-arms printed in red.
Room 1:
1. A model machine demonstrating the drawing of ''Terylene' polyester fibre, exhibiited by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited.
2. An X-ray tube with extremely fine focal spot for microradiography, exhibited by Dr. Vernon Ellis Cosslett, Mr. W. E. Nixon, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
3. Infra-red high-speed spectrometer, exhibited by Dr. Robert Allan Smith, Physics Department, Telecommunications Research Establishment, Malvern.
Room 2:
4. Oil painting of the last movable woad mill ca. 1900, exhibited by the Sceince Museum.
5. A remarkable property of Germanium, exhibited by Mr. G. A. Bassett, Mr. B. S. Cooper, Mr. John Walter Ryde, the General Electric Company Limited, Research Laboratories.
6. 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.
Floral exhibit by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Room 4:
7. The penetration of cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni into the skin and lymphatics of the mouse, exhibited by Mr. Owen D. Standen, Wellcome Laboratories.
8. Optical methods in X-ray analysis, exhibited by Dr. Henry (Solomon) Lipson, Department of Physics, College of Technlogy, Manchester.
Room 5:
9. 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.
10. A model lake to illustrate the water movements produced by wind, exhibited by Dr. Clifford Hiley Mortimer, Freshwater Biological Association.
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 apparatus designed for the continuous culture of bacteria in the steady state, exhibited by Mr. C. J. Perret, National Institute for Medical Research.
13. Interferometer microscope for opaque objects, exhibited by Mr. J. Dyson, Research Laboratory, Associated Electrical Industries Limited, Aldermaston, Berkshire.
14. 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.
15. '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.
16. 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:
17. Living marine animals, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
18. Living rare tropical rodents, exhibited by the Zoological Society of London.
19. 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.
20. 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.
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. |