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THE Catalogue of the Physical Spciety's Exhibition, held in the Imperial College of Science and Technology on January 4, 5 and 6, covers 226 pages, has many illustrations and is well arranged. The paging is on the bottom edge of the page, the number of the stall on the top outer corner and the name of firm exhibiting on the top inner corner. It is divided into two sections, Trade (177 pages) and Research (36 pages), and an alphabetical list of exhibitors in each section is provided which gives also the number of the stall. A four-page index of the instruments exhibited with indication of the pages on which they are described is also provided. Reference to the catalogue is therefore easy and quick. New exhibits are indicated in the catalogue by an asterisk and on the stalls by a red star. As compared with last year, the exhibits in the Research Section have nearly doubled, while those in the Trade Section are about the same with a somewhat larger proportion of red stars. Some of the illustrations convey more information as to the working parts of the instruments than in past years, and are more useful to prospective buyers. Those on pp. 28, 165, 176 and 179 may be taken as examples. Discourses were delivered on January 4 by Captain G. C. 0. Damant on "Diving in Deep Water and Shallow", on January 5 by Prof. A. F. C. Pollard on "Mechanical Amplification of Small Displacements" and by Sir Richard Gregory on "Science and Citizenship"jointly to the visitors to the Exhibition and to those attending the Exhibition of School Apparatus by the Science Masters' Association.
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Physical Society's Exhibition. Nature 141, 69–70 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141069c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141069c0