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IN an article on “Industrial Research” (NATURE, December i, p. 781) we referred briefly to the relation between Research Associations and the private research laboratories of individual concerns. It is encouraging to note that some firms, while participating in the work of the Research Association of their trade, have at the same time actively maintained their own research laboratories. Among these must be included the firm of Messrs. Adam Hilger Ltd., of 75A Camden Road, London, N.W.i. The work accomplished by the staff of the research department of this company during the past five years forms a very valuable record. The results of much of this work have been communicated in the usual way to various scientific societies; but the firm has gone further than this in having prepared and published several useful volumes by workers associated with the laboratory. These have been referred to in our columns at the time of their appearance, and include “Tables of Refractive Indices-Oils, Fats, and Waxes,” compiled by R. Kanthack and edited by Dr. J. N. Goldsmith, “Report on the Quantum Theory of Spectra,” by Dr. L. Silberstein, and “Wave-length Tables for Spectrum Analysis,” by F. Twyman. A monograph on “Elements of Vector Algebra,” by Dr. Silberstein, was also prepared for publication at the instance of and with the assistance of the firm.
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Scientific Instruments and Research. Nature 113, 253 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113253a0
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