| 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 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. X-ray spectrometer for use as an aid to archaaeology where no damage to the specimen is essential, exhibited by Mr. E. T. Hall, the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford.
2. High speed counting with the flying spot microscope, exhibited by Mr. D. Causley, Mr. G. Norrie, Mr. F. Roberts, Professor John Zachary Young, University College, London.
3. Conodonts, a group of early microfossils of problematic affinities, exhibited by Dr. Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes, University of Durham.
4. A method of cleaning and depigmenting insects for the study of internal structures in stained whole mounts, exhibited by Mr. M. E. C. Giglioni, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
5. Living nymphs of British Ephemeroptera, exhibited by Dr. Thomas Townley Macan, Freshwater Biological Association.
Room 2:
6. Photoconductivity effects with Germanium P-N junctions and a new phenomenon associated with electron traps in silicon, exhibited by Dr. E. G. James, Mr. D. J. Kyte, Mr. A. R. F. Plummer, Research Laboratories, the General Electric Company.
7. Acoustic phase shift gas indicator, exhibited by Dr. L. E. Lawley, Dr. E. G. Richardson, King's College, Newcastle.
8. High elasticity and frozen-in strain in 'Perspex', exhibited by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (Plastics Division).
9. An infra-red communication system employing a germanium modulator, exhibited by Dr. A. F. Gibson, Mr. R. Lawrence, Telecommunications Research Establishment, Great Malvern.
10. Application of tissue culture techniques to the study of viruses. (a) Destructive efect of fowl plague virus in roller tube cultures, exhibited by Dr. H. G. Pereira, Miss D. Chaproniere, Common Cold Research Unit, Salisbury. (b) Cultivation of influenza virus in fragments of chick chorio-allantoic membrane, exhibited by Dr. Forrest Fulton,London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Room 3 (Reception Room):
The Mace of the Royal Society presented by King Charles II in 1663.
11. Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), exhibited by the Royal Society.
12. Royal pages from the Charter Book, exhibited by the Royal Society.
Room 4:
13. Some scientific results from the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1949-1952.
14. Some apparatus used in hydrographic research, exhibited by the National Institute of Oceanography and the Metropolitan Water Board.
15. Zograscope for viewing perspective prints, exhibited by the Science Museum.
16. Immature stages of some British sawflies (Hymenoptera-symphyta), exhibited by Professor H. W. Miles, Wye College, University of London.
17. 'Mathematical jewell', exhibiited by the Science Museum .
18. A demonstration apparatus showing the use of transistors for one or two circuit applications, exhibited by Mr. G. B. B. Chaplin, Professor Frederic Calland Williams, the University, Manchester.
19. Regular monthly periodicity in 'lake-flies' in Lake Victoria, exhibited by Mr. W. W. Macdonald, East African Fisheries Research Organization [pasted-in slip].
20. The molecular or millipore membrane filter, exhibited by the Metropolitan Water Board.
Room 5:
21. Measuring changes in atmospheric spore content, exhibited by Mr. John Malcolm Hirst, Rothamsted Experimental Station.
22. Recordings of whistling atmospherics, exhibited by Mr. L. R. O. Storey, the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
23. Electron microscope pictures by reflexion, exhibited by Dr. Vernon Ellis Coslett, Mr. D. Jones, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge; Mr. M. E. Haine, Dr. W. Hirst, Associated Electrical Industries Limited, Research Laboratory; Dr. James Woodham Menter, Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces Laboratory, Cambridge.
24. Electroluminescence produced in certain phosphors in an alternating field, exhibited by Mr. H. C. Bate, Mr. J. N. Bowtell, Research Laboratories, the General Electric Company Limited.
25. The effect of an echo upon a speaker, exhibited by Dr. Edward Colin Cherry, Mr. A. J. Fourcin, Imperial College of Science and Technology.
26. Embryonic electronic exchange, exhibited by the Post Office Engineering Department, Research Station.
27. Techniques devised for the measurement of agricultural chemical deposits on plant surfaces, exhibited by Mr. A. E. M. Bowden, Dr. J. K. Eaton, Woodstock Farm Experimental Station of the Shell Petroleum Company Limited.
28. Optical slits and their polarization properties, exhibited by Professor Reginald Victor Jones, University of Aberdeen.
29. Some results obtained from the Cambridge borehole, exhibited by [William John Pugh] the Director, Geological Survey and Museum, and [William Bernard Robinson King] Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Cambridge.
30. The culture and biochemical investigation of microscopic algae, exhibited by Dr. Gordon Elliott Fogg, Dr. Leslie Fowden, University College, London.
31. Long-term preservation of living cells in the frozen state, exhibited by Dr. James Ephraim Lovelock, Dr. Alan Sterling Parkes, Mr. Christopher Polge, Dr. Audrey Ursula Smith, National Institute for Medical Research; Dr. H. Chaplin Jr., Dr. Patrick Loudon Mollison, Blood Transfusion Research Unit, Postgraduate Medical School of London.
32. An experimental demonstration of the vertical migration of freshwater plankton animals, exhibiited by Professor J. E. Harris, Miss Ursula Kaufmann, the University of Bristol.
Room 6:
33. Living marine animals, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
34. Species hybrid between the European Drosophila ambigua and the American Drosophila pseudoobscura, exhibited by Dr. T. Koske, University College, London.
35. Great crested newt hybrids, exhibited by Dr. Helen Spurway, University College, London.
36. The organization of the honeybee community, exhibited by Mr. C. Ronald Ribbands, Rothamsted Experimental Station.
Meeting Room:
The following film will be shown at 9.15, 9.45 and 10.15 p.m.: -
Fish and the seine net, exhibited by the Marine Laboratory, Scottish Home Department, Torry, Aberdeen. |