| 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. Myxomatosis of rabbbits, exhibited by Mr. Harry V. Thompson and Dr. Robert Charles Muirhead Thomson, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
2. Evolution in birds of the Solomon Islands, exhibited by Dr. Arthur James Cain, Mr. I. C. J. Galbraith, Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, University of Oxford.
3. The fine structure of striated muscle and the mechanism of muscular contraction, exhibiited by Dr. Jean Hanson, King's College, London, and Dr. Hugh Esmor Huxley, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
4. Apparatus for the ultra-micro electrometric estimation of chloride, exhibited by Mr. P. C. Croghan, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.
Room 2:
5. The Cambridge survey of radio stars, exhibited by Mr. Martin Ryle, Mr. John Evan Baldwin, and Mr. John R. Shakeshaft, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
6. A model of an Andreau windmill, exhibited by the Chief Engineer's Department, Central Electricity Authority.
7. A simple infra-red grating spectrometer for use in analysis, exhibiited by Dr. J. Gaunt, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.
8. How a spider constructs its web: stages in the construction of theorb web of Araneus diadematus Clerck, exhibited by Dr. G. O. Evans, and Mr. Macer-Wright, Department of Zoology and Exhibition Section, British Museum (Natural History).
9. Swallowing in man: certain features of the mechanism as shown by X-ray cinematography, exhibited by Dr. G. M Ardran and Dr. F. H. Kemp, the Nuffield 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.
10. Radio-carbon dating of archaeological specimens, exhibited by Dr. A. R. Crathorn, lately of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution.
11. Preferred stone orientation in tills in relation to the glaciations of East Anglia and the East Midlands, exhibited by Dr. Joakim J. Donner and Dr. Richard Gilbert West, Sub-department of Quaternary Research, University of Cambridge.
12. A new flow-meter, and the tele-metering of ventilation rate of human subjects, exhibited by Mr. Heinz Siegfried Wolff, National Institute for Medical Research.
Room 4:
13. Photogrammetric plotter, exhibited by Professor Edgar Hynes Thompson, University College, London, and Messrs. Hilger & Watts Limited.
14. Apparatus for the determination of freezing-point upon small volumes of fluid, exhibited by Dr. R. H. J. Brown and Dr. James Arthur Ramsay, Zoological Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
15. Instability of the laminar boundar layer on a rotating disk, exhibited by Mr. N. Gregory, Mr., J. T. Stuart and Mr. W. S. Walker, Aerodynamics Division, National Physical Laboratory.
16. A stereoscopic illusion, exhibited by Dr. Robert A. Weale, M.R.C. Group for Research in the Physiology of Vision, Institute of Ophthalmology, London.
17. Model of the experimental heat pump installed at the Royal Festival Hall in 1951, exhibited by the Science Museum.
18. (a) Study of the friction of metals at very high speeds. (b) Sliding in snow and ice and the development of some new fast running skis, exhibited by Dr. Frank Philip Bowden and Mr. E. H. Freitag, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Cambridge.
19. Air pollution in the British Isles and its effect on the spread of industrial melanism in thelepidoptera, exhibited by Dr. Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell, Genetics Laboratory, University Museum, Oxford.
Room 5:
20. New red phosphors and their temperature-dependence, exhibited by Mr. A. H. McKeag and Mr. E. Power, Research Laboratories, The General Electric Company Limited.
21. Animated diagram showing in detail the chain-reaction in a nuclear reactor, exhibited by Dr. Francis Alan Burnett Ward, the Science Museum.
22. Macrocyclic pigments of the porphyrin and azaporphin type, exhibited by Dr. U. Eisner, Dr. John Arthur Elvidge, Dr. G. E. Ficken, Dr. Reginald Patrick Linstead and Dr. M. Whalley, Imperial College of Science and Technology.
23. The growth and domain structure of ferroelectric single crystals, exhibited by Mr. L. A. Thomas and Dr. E. A. D. White, Research Laboratories, The General Electric Company Limited.
24. A repiratory anemometer, exhibited by Dr. Basil Martin Wright, Pneumoconiosis Research Unit, Cardiff.
25. Vortex air separator, based on the work of P. Hilsch and M. P. Blair, exhibited by Radiation Limited, Birmingham.
26. The electric contact, exhibited by Dr. M. R. Hopkins, Mr. C. R. Jones and Professor Frank Llewellyn Jones, Department of Physics, University College of Swansea.
27. Sound transmission through the normal chest, exhibited by Dr. Arthur John Buller, and Dr. Antony Clifford Dornhorst, St. Thomas's Hospital, London.
28. Apparatus for the maintenance and measurement of spermatozoan activity in vitro, exhibited by Mr. Hector M. Dott and Dr. A. Walton, Agricultural Research Council, Unit of Reproductive Physiology and Biochemistry, Cambridge.
29. Apparatus for scanning radioactive paper chromatograms, exhibited by Dr. R. P. Martin, Department of Agriculture, University of Oxford.
30. Vapour phase chromatography, exhibited by Dr. F. R. Cropper, Mr. A. Heywood and Mr. N. Mellor, Dyestuffs Divison and Dr. B. W. Bradford, Mr. D. E. Chalkley and Mr. D. Harvey, Billingham Division, Imperial Chemical Industries Limited.
31. Some applications of radioactive isotopes in polymer chemistry, exhibited by Dr. John C. Bevington and Professor Harry Work Melville, Department of Chemistry, University of Birmingham.
32. Chemotheraphy of plant viruses, exhibited by Dr. Richard Ellis Ford Matthews and Dr. J. D. Smith, Agricultural Research Council, Virus Research Unit, Cambridge.
Room 6:
33. Invertebrate animals from the tidal zone of the sea shore, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
34. The analysis of bird song, exhibited by Dr. William Homan Thorpe, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.
35. The hearing and voice of whales, exhibited by Mr. Frederic Charles Fraser and Mr. P. E. Purves, Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
36. Some mutants of a bacillus phage, exhibited by Dr. Elinor McCloy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Meeting Room:
The following film will be shown at 9.15, 9.45 and 10.15 p.m.: -
The physiological applications of cimematography at high speeds (1000 to 2000 frames/sec), exhibited by Dr. D. A. MacDonald, Department of Physiology, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London. Cinematography by John Hadland, Chipperfield, Hertfordshire. |