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THE establishment of a Department of Technical Optics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, and the appointment of Mr. F. J. Cheshire as the director of the department, were announced in NATURE of May 24 (p. 257). The report of the Board of Education for the year 191516 jUSt issued (Cd. 8594, price 6d.) includes the following reference to this subject:— After many years of discussion the establishment of a Department of Technical Optics is at last assured, and the Board desires in this connection to express its appreciation of the action of the London County Council, to whom the realisation of the scheme is largely due. The scheme involves the co-operation of the Imperial College of Science and Technology at South Kensington and the Northampton Polytechnic Institute in Clerkenwell. The more elementary in. struction will be given at the Northampton Polytechnic Institute; the advanced full-time courses, and most of the research work, will be centred at the Imperial College. The work in technical optics at both institutions will be under the control of a director, who will be a professor of the Imperial College, and will be given the position of honor4ry head of a department in the Northampton Institute.
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Technical Optics . Nature 99, 317 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099317a0
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