Abstract
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother honoured the Society with her presence at the special reception held on Tuesday, 17 July, to celebrate the tercentenary of the granting of the Society’s first Charter. On this occasion some 350 Fellows and their Ladies attended. The Journal Book, the First and Second Charters, the Mace, the Charter Book and the silver handbell, presented by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in i960, were all displayed in the Council Room . There were also the following seven exhibits chosen for their general interest. Dr I. G. Gass, leader of the Royal Society’s Expedition to Tristan da Cunha in January 1962, arranged an exhibit which included a relief model o f the island, and was illustrated with several interesting photographs and geographical specimens. A prototype version of the Ariel I Artificial Earth Satellite was shown by Mr M. O. Robins. The exhibit arranged by Sir John Baker, F.R.S., on the plastic design of steel structures included some of his models illustrating the elastic behaviour of such structures. An exhibit of the evolution of the optical microscope was shown by John R . Baker, F.R.S., and this included many examples of early eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-centurv instruments.
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