| 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 the Meeting Room. Commencing with a note of a demonstration taking place during the evening. The catalogue concludes 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. Portrait in wax of Sir Isaac Newton, exhibited by Sir Richard Glazebrook.
2. The moving iron oscillograph and its use in recording sensory nerve action currents, exhibited by Bryan Matthews.
3. Pictures of progressively rolled 'Armco' iron and annealed iron, exhibited by the Research Department, Woolwich.
4. Dr. Jean Thibaud's x-ray grating spectrograph for the soft x-rays, a very large quartz prism, a reflection echelon constructed of British-made fused silica, exhibited by Messrs. Adam Hilger.
5. Records of the lateral vibration of a ship's hull, exhibited by Mr. A. D. Browne, Eric Balliol Moullin, Mr. G. McLaren Paterson and the Cunard Steamship Company Limited.
Room 2 (Reception Room):
The Mace of the Royal Society. Presented by King Charles II in 1663.
6. Photographs of flame propagation in gaseous explosions, exhibited by William Arthur Bone and Mr. R. P. Fraser.
7. Photographs of eminent scientific men taken by the exhibitor at various dates, exhibited by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton.
8. Manganese, the age-hardening of aluminium alloys (Dr. Marie L. V. [Laura Violet] Gayler and Mr. G. D. Preston), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
9. Large glass discs for astronomical telescopes, exhibited by the Parsons Optical Glass Company.
Room 3:
10. Inheritance of coiling and shell shape in Limnaea peregra, exhibited by Arthur Edward Boycott, Captain Cyril Diver, and Dr. F. M. Turner.
11. Experiments to illustrate the transmission by grafting of the 'virus' that induces 'breaking' in the tulip (Miss D. M. [Dorothy Mary] Cayley), exhibited by the John Innes Horticultural Institute.
12. Herring investigations at Plymouth, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
Room 4 (Principal Library):
13. Chart showing the behaviour of the free pendulum clock Shortt no.3, chart showing 'Minor fluctuations in longitude of the Sun and Moon since 1750', chart showing 'Minor fluctuations in longitude of the Moon since 1750', exhibited by Frank Dyson, the Astronomer Royal.
14. An instantaneous visual direct-reading radiogoniometer, exhibited by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Radio Research Station, Slough.
15. Injection acetylene burners, exhibited by the Allen-Liversidge Company and Charles Vernon Boys.
16. Caesium tube (Mr. N. A. [Norman Adrian] de Bruyne), exhibited by the Cavendish Laboratory.
17. A male monk-fish (Squatina) from the lithographic stone (Upper Jurassic) of Wurttemberg, exhibited by the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
18. The skull and feet of Moropus a mammal from the Lower Miocene of Nebraska, exhibited by the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
19. Evolution of certain Hoplitid ammonites (Dr. L. F. [Leonard Frank] Spath), exhibited by the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
20. The silver pocket-sundial of the first Duke of Marlborough (John Churchill 1650-1722) whose arms and motto are engraved on the face of it, exhibited by George Hugh Gabb.
21. Diffraction of electron waves, exhibited by George Paget Thomson.
22. Intertraction, exhibited by Sir Almroth Edward Wright.
23. Plants highly toxic to insects, exhibited by the Rothamsted Experimental Station.
24. (and 30) The effect of mitosis in vitro of (a) radium (Dr. R.. G. [Ronald George] Canti and Mr. F. G. [Frederick Gordon] Spear) (b) low temperature (Mr. F. G. Spear), the delayed lethal dose of radium on tissue cultures in vitro (Mr. F. G. Spear), microglia in vivo and in vitro (Dr. A. E. Carmichael [eg Edward Arnold] and Dr. A. Q. [Arthur Quinton] Wells), exhibited by the Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge.
25. Specimens illustrating properties of ferrous alloys also special metallurgical and other processes, exhibited by Sir Robert Hadfield.
26. Dent dipleidoscopes, exhibited by Robert Stewart Whipple.
27. Foucault's apparatus for the measurement of the velocity of light, exhibited by Robert William Theodore Gunther.
28. Relation of nerve fibres to normal and malignant epithelium, exhibited by Dr. R. J. Ludford.
29. Models, microscope and other preparations illustrating the scent producing organs found in insects and employed by them in courtship and defence, exhibited by Harry Eltringham.
30. (For description see no. 24), exhibited by the Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge.
31. Morphological parallelism in different orders of insects, exhibited by the Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History).
32. The colour and pattern of certain woodpeckers (Mr. P. R. [Percy Roycroft] Lowe and Mr. N. B. [Norman Boyd] Kinnear), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
33. Models (x3) of the remarkable abyssal cephalopod Melanoteuthis beebei (Octopoda) (Mr. G. C. [Guy Coburn] Robson), exhibited by the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History).
Room 5 Ground Floor (Corridor):
34. Methods of measuring thickness of films between surfaces in close (wringing) contact (Mr. F. H. Rolt [Frederick Henry] and Mr. H. Barrell), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
35. Portable electrocardiograph, exhibited by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company.
Room 6 (End of Corridor):
36. Flutter of model aeroplane wings (Mr. R. A. [Robert Alexander] Frazer and Mr. W. J. [William Jolly] Duncan), exhibited by the National Physical Laboratory.
37. Apparatus for the visual examination of oils while being 'cracked' under pressure, exhibited by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
Meeting Room:
At 9.15 and 10 o'clock.
Cinematograph demonstration of living tissue cultivated in vitro, exhibited by Ronald George Canti.
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