| 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], 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. The separation of volatile substances by gas-liquid chromatography, exhibited by Dr. Anthony Trafford James and Dr. Archer John Porter Martin, National Institute for Medical Research.
2. Physiology of song in cicadas, Mr. John William Sutton Pringle FRS, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.
3. A comparative study on the optical and electron microscopes of the different kinds of viruses affecting insects, Dr. Kenneth Manley Smith and Mr. N. Xeros, Agricultural Research Council, Plant Virus Research Unit, Cambridge.
4. Demonstration of methods employed during the early days of wireless telegraphy, exhibited by the Science Museum.
Room 2:
5. Tape recordings of the echoes received from ionized trails of meteors. Scale model of the 250ft aperture rado telescope, exhibited by Dr. John Grant Davies and Professor Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, Cheshire.
6. The pyrophone, exhibited by the Science Museum.
7. British Post Office type of deep sea telephone repeater, exhibited by the Post Office Engineering Department, Research Station (Contractors, Standard Telephones and Cables Limited).
8. Strains of houseflies resistant to insecticides, exhibited by Dr. James R. Busvine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
9. Decca radar at the Spithead Review, exhibited by Deccca Radar Limited.
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:
10. Interference microscopy of biological objects, exhibited by Mr. Andrew Fielding Huxley, Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
11. The use of acids and transparent plastics in the preparation of vertebrate fossils, exhibited by Mr. Arthur E. Rixon and Mr. Harry Ashley Toombs, Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
12. Biological decomposition of cyanides, exhibited by Dr. E. V. Mills and Mr. A. E. J. Pettet, Water Pollution Research Laboratory.
13. Composition of bone as aid to the determination of antiquity ['The exhibit includes specimens from Piltdown'], exhibited by Dr. Kenneth Page Oakley, Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
14. Adaptation of insects to withstand high temperature, exhibited by Dr. Kenneth Mellanby, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
15. Paleomagnetism, exhibited by Dr. John McGarva Bruckshaw, Department of Geophysics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, Dr. John Atherton Clegg, Department of Physics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, and Dr. Stanley Keith Runcorn, Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, University of Cambridge.
Room 5:
16. Fluorescence and energy transfer between molecules, exhibited by Dr. Edmund John Bowen, Mr. Brian Brocklehurst and Mr. D. Tanner, Physical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford.
17. Potential changes in isolated sympathetic ganglia, exhibited by Dr. James Edward Pascoe, Department of Physiology, University College, London.
18. Enhanced thermoelectric effects from new semiconductor junctions, exhibited by Mr. R. W. Douglas and Mr. H. K. Goldsmid, Research Laboratories, the General Electric Company Limited.
19. Photo-electric apparatus for the measurement of the velocity of rapid chemical reactions, exhibited by Dr. Quentin Howieson Gibson, Department of Physiology, University of Sheffield.
20. Growth spirals on crystals, exhibited by Dr. Frederick Charles Frank, H.H.Wills Physical Laboratory, Bristol.
21. Some effects of hydrostatic pressure on muscular contractions, exhibited by Mr. A. C. Downing, Mr. L. Macpherson and Dr. D. R. Wilkie, Department of Physiology, University College, London.
22. Quantitative determination of the composition of mixtures of rare gases by electrophoretic separation, exhibited by Mr. Evan Herbert Nelson and Mr. Sydney Alfred Richard Rigden, Research Laboratories, the General Electric Company Limited.
23. Mechanical models of spermatozoa and living spermatozoa, exhibited by Sir Geoffrey Taylor and Lord Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, University of Cambridge.
24. Three-dimensional display of models, exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory (Light Division).
25. An integrating soap-film flowmeter, exhibited by Mr. M. Ainsworth and Mr. J. W. Eveleigh, Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Porton, Wiltshire.
26. Oxygen equipment used on Mount Everest, exhibited by Mr. Thomas Duncan Bourdillon, Dr. J. E. Coates, Mr. P. Lloyd, Dr. Lewis Griffith Cresswell Evans Pugh, and Wing Commander Henry Lindsay Roxburgh.
27. Audio analogue of a radar set, exhibited by Mr. R. H. James, Civil Aviation Signals Training Establishment, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
Room 6:
28. The range of form in some of the littoral and offshore ascidians of the Plymouth area, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
29. African podostemaceae, exhibited by Dr. George Taylor, British Museum (Natural History).
30. An apparatus for determining the speed of swimming of fish, exhibited by Dr. R. Bainbridge, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.
31. The genetics of specific differences in butterflies, exhibited by Dr. Cyril Astley Clarke, University of Liverpool and Dr. Philip MacDonald Sheppard, University Museum, Oxford.
Meeting Room:
The following film will be shown at 9.15, 9.45 and 10.15 p.m.: -
The British North Greenland Expedition, exhibited with an introduction and commentary by Mr. Richard Hamilton, Chief Scientist and Meteorological Officer and by Dr. Harold Ellis Lewis, University College, London. |