Abstract
THE long-delayed steps which—as announced in NATURE of May 24 (p. 257) and June 14 (p. 317)—have been taken by the Government and the London County Council in concert for establishing the study of optics and of the manufacture of optical appliances upon a proper footing in this, country, have given great satisfaction to all who are in a position to appreciate the importance of that measure. That the turning of this new leaf should be among the earliest consequences of the war is a fact both of intrinsic importance and of good augury. The importance of properly organised manufactures of optical glass and of optical instruments has been manifest, and has been pressed upon the Government with great weight of expert authority by the British Science Guild and other bodies for many years past. But in the days before the war, when the optimist was accounted the best as well as the pleasantest of counsellors, it was impossible to secure the attention of our rulers for so modest a proposal as the establishment upon an adequate scale of a school of practical optics.
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