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THE aims of the optical convention, which was opened at the Northampton Institute, Clerkenwell, on Tuesday, May 30, are to increase the interest taken in optical science in this country, to promote an improvement in technical education in optical matters, and to aid the development of the British optical industry. In his address, the chief part of which is subjoined, the president, Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., after explaining the origin of the proposal to hold a convention, and the steps taken to realise it, gives an outline of the history of optical progress during the past two hundred and fifty years with the view of illustrating the close union which has existed between theory and practice at times of marked progress, and of showing how each has reacted on the other in assisting this progress. The programme of the convention includes meetings for papers and discussions, which will be subsequently published in a volume, and an exhibition of optical and scientific instruments of British manufacture, with a catalogue which is intended to serve as a work of reference illustrating the productions of opticians in this country. A description of some of the exhibits follows the president's address abridged below; and an article on the nature and matter of the papers and discussions will appear in these pages after the close of the convention.
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An Optical Congress and Exhibition . Nature 72, 112–116 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072112a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/072112a0