| 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. Smoking and cancer of the lung, exhibited by Professor Austin Bradford Hill, and Dr. Richard Doll, Statistical Research Unit of the Medical Research Council, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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.
Room 2:
4. Living ferns, exhibited by [Sir Edward Salisbury] the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
5. The pyrophone, exhibited by the Science Museum.
6. 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.
Floral exhibit by [Sir Edward Salisbury] the Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Room 4:
7. Spermatozoa and models of their movement and structure, exhibited by Dr. John Richard Grenfell Bradfield and Sir Geoffrey Taylor, University of Cambridge.
8. 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 Mr. Kenneth Midworth Creer and Mr. Edward Irving, Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, University of Cambridge.
Room 5:
9. Fluorescence and energy transfer between molecules, exhibited by Dr. Edmund John Bowen, Miss E. Lief, and Mr. D. Tanner, Physical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford.
10. Three dimensional projection without selective spectacles, exhibited by the British Thomson-Houston Company Research Laboratory, Rugby, and Dr. Denis Gabor, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.
11. 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.
12. Growth spirals on crystals, exhibited by Dr. Frederick Charles Frank, H.H.Wills Physical Laboratory, Bristol.
13. 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.
14. An integrating soap-film flowmeter, exhibited by Mr. M. Ainsworth and Mr. J. W. Eveleigh, Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Porton, Wiltshire.
15. 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).
16. Dating bones by their composition ['The exhibit includes specimens from Piltdown'], exhibited by Dr. Kenneth Page Oakley, Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
17. 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.
Room 6:
18. 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.
19. An apparatus for determining the speed of swimming of fish, exhibited by Dr. R. Bainbridge, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.
20. 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. |