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SCIENTIFIC EXPORTS (GREAT BRITAIN), LTD., Buckingham House, Buckingham Street, London, W.C.2, is a co-operative marketing organisation set up by a group of British firms specializing in the production of high-quality scientific and surgical equipment. Through its world-wide agency, customers will be able to obtain from one source a very wide range of the finest equipment available. For circulation abroad, the organisation is issuing an illustrated bulletin, the first number of the technical series of which has recently been received. The bulletin is intended to supply regular and up-to-date information of progress in the above fields, and will include detailed descriptions of products, techniques, and developments in the spheres covered by the manufacturing members of the group of manufacturers involved. The members introduced in the first number are Allen and Hanburys, Ltd., founded in 1715 and famous for their pharmaceutical products; Baird and Tatlock (London), Ltd., laboratory suppliers for more than fifty years; W. Edwards and Co. (London), Ltd., high-vacuum specialists; Adam Hilger, Ltd., founded in 1874 and specialists in spectroscopes and astronomical instruments; Hopkins and Williams, Ltd., who have been engaged in the manufacture of fine chemicals for nearly a century; W. Watson and Sons, Ltd., founded in 1837 and chiefly noted for microscopes; and E. R. Watts and Son, Ltd., established in 1857, and makers of theodolites, levels and other surveying equipment.
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Export Organisation for British Scientific Instruments. Nature 161, 345 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161345b0
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