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NOTE. 

 TECHNICAL OPTICS. 



Arrangements have recently been completed for an important 

 development in national industry on the scientific side, by the 

 establishment of a new Department of Technical Optics in con- 

 nection with the Imperial College of Science and Technology at 

 South Kensington. The Department in question forms part of 

 a larger scheme adopted by the London County Council in August 

 last for the provision of instruction in this most important sub- 

 ject (in which the Council promised to find certain moneys for 

 the scheme, if the Government also contributed), including post- 

 graduate and research work at the Imperial College, a trade 

 school and senior day and technical courses at the Northampton 

 Institute, and junior technical courses at two junior technical 

 institutions, one in North London and one in South London. 



Since August last the Government, including the new Depart- 

 ment of Scientific and Industrial Research and the Imperial 

 College, have decided financially to support the Council's scheme, 

 and all the necessary assents have been obtained. The amount 

 of money immediately available is £4,000 a year for working 

 expenses and £5,000 for equipment and more immediate neces- 

 sities of the Department. 



The new Department is under the management of a Technical 

 Optics Committee of which the Eight Hon. Arthur H. D. Acland 

 is Chairman, and which at present consists of thirteen members 

 representing the Admiralty, the Army Council, the Ministry of 



