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THE letter published in NATURE of October 20 from the Carl Zeiss organisation in Jena through Messrs. J. W. Atha and Co. is interesting, but not very convincing, for Messrs. Zeiss seem to wish to convey a totally different impression from that of thirty-five years ago. Their present attitude is that although they did receive a small subsidy, a mere 3000l., from the Prussian Government, it was an isolated instance and really quite unnecessary. In view of this the following extract from the preface to the catalogue of optical glasses issued by Schott and Gen in 1886 is interesting:—“We have to express our sincere thanks to the Prussian Bureau of Education and to the Diet of the kingdom for the very liberal and repeated subsidies by which we were enabled to carry out the costly experiments on a manufacturing scale.” The italics in the quotation are mine.
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SWIFT, M. The Development of Optical Industries. Nature 108, 305 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108305a0
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