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THE British Scientific Instrument Research Association was established on May 23, 1918, and was the second research association incorporated by Board of Trade licence, under the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, the first of these associations the British Photographic Research Association having received its licence a few days earlier. It will be remembered that, in the year 1917, Parliament allocated a sum of one million pounds for the promotion of industrial research, and that a scheme was drawn up for the establishment of research associations connected with various industries, each of which was to receive for five years a grant on a fifty-fifty basis in aid of its expenses. The first Director of Research of the British Scientific Instrument Research Association was Sir Herbert Jackson, who retired in 1933; and the first Secretary, Mr. J. W. Williamson, who is to retire on March 31 next.
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The British Scientific Instrument Research Association. Nature 137, 218 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137218b0
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