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Glasgow Refraction Hospital
Europe: United Kingdom, Scotland, Lanarkshire, Glasgow
April 1929
paper
overall: 251 mm x 158 mm
Issue of an optometry journal published by the GRH. Portrait format, printed in black and white on 20 pages, with soft end papers, stapled. Front cover bears emblems of a Scottish lion, Edinburgh Castle and a saint. Contents include articles, letters, a message on the importance of preparatory education, questions from the December 1928 Qualifying Students examinations, a list of course fees and a photograph of the GRH street frontage at 26-28 Richmond Street. Full-page advertisements for: London Optical Company (Streamline frames), John Baird & Son (The Practitioner's Companion diagnostic set/practice eyes with interchangeable fundi), Nitsche & Gunther Optical Co (1927) Ltd prescription department, The Hadley Company (Invirim flat eyewire frames) and, on back cover J. R. Fleming Ltd. Smaller advertisements for Butterworths (Edinburgh) Ltd , Willmotts Ltd, Royal Optical Co, Raphael's Ltd (Scientype Scotometer), Lever Brothers (prescription work), George Culver Ltd, Scott & Madill (Union Improved Astigmatic Chart), Raphael's Ltd (Scientype Main Converter/consultant's jackets/Cosmoid bridges).
2019.806/3
Gift of the late Mr Thomas McConnochie, via Dr Kathryn McConnochie, 2019