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IN September next an important meeting of the International Illumination Commission, which was formed in 1900 and includes both the gas and electrical interests, is to be held in America. The objects of the Commission are the study of all subjects bearing on illumination and its cognate sciences, and the establishment of international agreements in illumination matters. There are at present National Illumination Committees in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States of America. For the first time in the history of the Commission, a British president has been elected, namely, Mr. C. C. Paterson, Director of the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Co., Wembley. The Commission has already established an international standard of light, and is now dealing with such subjects as definitions and symbols, factory and school lighting, automobile headlights, heterochromatic photometry, photometric accuracy, fundamental research on glare, colorimetry. The British National Illumination Committee, which is closely associated with the Sectional Illumination Committee of the British Engineering Standards Association, the membership being practically identical, will be responsible for nominating delegates to represent the British viewpoint and British interests, and is anxious to secure adequate representation at these meetings. It is hoped that the delegates will include representatives of the Government departments, municipalities, the National Physical Laboratory, the electrical industry, the gas industry, and the principal associations interested in illumination matters. Mr. Buckley, of the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, who is the secretary of the British National Illumination Committee, will gladly furnish full particulars.
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[News and Views]. Nature 121, 547–550 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121547a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/121547a0