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THE annual report of the National Physical Laboratory for 1913–14 was presented to the general board at the visitation day of the Royal Society on June 19. The report forms another and a conspicuous testimony to the remarkable growth of the laboratory and the importance and volume of the work with which it has to deal. In its early career the existence and future of the laboratory were a source of some anxiety to its supporters, but no one can now deny the position it has won. It will be readily conceded by those who have followed its fortunes how much the laboratory owes to its director, Dr. Glazebrook, to whose ability and energies the great success of the institution will be a lasting monument. A notion of the present extent of the laboratory buildings may be got from the panoramic view shown in Fig. 1. The laboratory staff now approaches 200 in number, of whom more than 60 have had a university training.
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The National Physical Laboratory in 1913–14. Nature 93, 428–431 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093428c0
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