108 GLASS FOR OPTICAL PURPOSES 



The rapid progress made in America was largely due to the fact 

 that the scientists of the Geophysical Laboratory, and of the Bureau 

 of Standards, were not content to sit on High Olympus in the suburbs 

 of Washington, but did their work in the manufacturing plantsy 

 from which the results of their researches are issued. Thus science 

 and industry co-operated in the closest possible manner, with results 

 which speak for themselves; for not only were the practical results 

 aimed at actually achieved, but a very large volume of scientific 

 research was carried out, much of which has already been published 

 in American scientific literature, while much more awaits publication. 



We have certainly done good practical work in a limited field 

 in this country, and nothing pleased me more than to hear the 

 quality of some of our British scientific glass praised in America. 

 The greater credit to those to whom the results are due, who have 

 worked, as Englishmen often work best, in face of difficulties. Given 

 the opportunity, the British scientist is equal to any in knowledge, 

 and superior to most in grit; but the policy adopted by our Govern- 

 ment Departments of attempting to monopolise science, and draw 

 a dividing line between science in the university laboratory and 

 science in the works, is fatal both to scientific and industrial 

 progress. 



