| 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 [E. D. Adrian] and Mrs. Adrian, 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. 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.
2. Measuring changes in atmospheric spore content, exhibited by Mr. John Malcolm Hirst, Rothamsted Experimental Station.
3. 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.
Room 2:
4. An infra-red communication system employing a germanium modulator, exhibited by Dr. A. F. Gibson, Mr. R. Lawrence, Telecommunications Research Establishment, Great Malvern.
5. The culture and biochemical investigation of microscopic algae, exhibited by Dr. Gordon Elliott Fogg, Dr. Leslie Fowden, assisted by Mr. J. H. Blecher, Mr. J. D. A. Miller, Mr. W. E. E. Smith, University College, London.
6. 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.
Floral exhibit by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
7. Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), exhibited by the Royal Society.
8. Royal pages from the Charter Book, exhibited by the Royal Society.
Room 4:
9. 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.
10. Some scientific results from the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1949-1952.
Room 5:
11. Some optical methods for revealing surface microtopographies, exhibited by Professor Samuel Tolansky, Royal Holloway College.
12. Recordings of whistling atmospherics, exhibited by Mr. L. R. O. Storey, the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
13. High elasticity and frozen-in strain in 'Perspex', exhibited by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (Plastics Division).
14. 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.
15. Zograscope for viewing perspective prints, exhibited by the Science Museum.
16. 'Mathematical jewell', exhibiited by the Science Museum .
17. Immature stages of some British sawflies (Hymenoptera-symphyta), exhibited by Professor H. W. Miles, Wye College, University of London.
18. Conodonts, a group of early microfossils of problematic affinities, exhibited by Dr. Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes, University of Durham.
19. A proposed structure for DNA, exhibited by Dr. Rosalind Elsie Franklin, Mr. Raymond George Gosling, Dr. Alexander Rawson Stokes, Dr. Herbert Rees Wilson, King's College, London, Dr. Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, Medical Research Council Unit, King's College, Mr. Francis Harry Compton Crick, Dr. James Dewey Watson, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
20. 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.
21. The effect of an echo upon a speaker, exhibited by Dr. Edward Colin Cherry, Mr. A. J. Fourcin, Imperial College of Science and Technology.
Room 6:
22. Living marine animals, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
23. The organization of the honeybee community, exhibited by Mr. C. Ronald Ribbands, Rothamsted Experimental Station.
24. Living nymphs of British ephemeroptera, exhibited by Dr. Thomas Townley Macan, Freshwater Biological Association.
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. |