330 TECHNICAL OPTICS. 



Munitions, tlie Royal Society, tlie National Physical Laboratory, 

 employers in the optical trades, glass manufacturers, and the 

 Imperial College ; while two further members have yet to be 

 elected representative of glass workers and metal workers. Tlie 

 same Committee appointed by the L.C.C. is also an Advisory 

 Committee to the Council. 



Mr. Frederic J. Cheshire has been appointed head of the new 

 Department at the Imperial College for a period of five years, 

 witlk the title Director of Technical Optics, and Professor of 

 Technical Optics at the Imperial College. Mr. Cheshire's long 

 experience and great ability in optical matters practically ensure 

 a successful beginning. He has been associated with optical 

 instruments for many years at the Patent Office, and since the 

 formation of the Ministry of Munitions has been Deputy Director- 

 General of the Ministry and Technical Director of the Optical 

 Department of the Ministry. He is the present President of the 

 Optical Society. 



It is expected that, subject to the conclusion of certain ar- 

 rangements with the Treasury, Mr. Cheshire will accept the 

 Directorship, and it is anticipated that the organisation of the 

 Department will be rapidly completed, and that training will 

 begin at an early date. 



June 1917. 



The recently established Department of Technical Optics of 

 the Imperial College at South Kensington has now begun its 

 work. It will be remembered that on the initiative of the London 

 County Council a general scheme for providing instruction in 

 tliis higlily important national work was agreed upon by the 

 several parties concerned in the early part of the year when an 

 Advisory Committee to the County Council representative of the 



