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Glasgow Refraction Hospital
Europe: United Kingdom, Scotland, Lanarkshire, Glasgow
July 1929
paper
overall: 251 mm x 158 mm
Issue of an optometry journal published by the GRH (marked as the Hospital Library copy). 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 feature on the Aves Deviograph, the donation of a Pascal Photoscope, questions from the April 1929 Qualifying Students examinations, the launch of a lecture programme and a photograph of the GRH street frontage at 26-28 Richmond Street. Full-page advertisements for: London Optical Company (Rest-Lite 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 (Trupos) 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).
2019.806/4
Gift of the late Mr Thomas McConnochie, via Dr Kathryn McConnochie, 2019