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Glasgow Refraction Hospital
Europe: United Kingdom, Scotland, Lanarkshire, Glasgow
July 1932
paper
overall: 251 mm x 158 mm
Issue of an optometry journal published by the GRH. Portrait format, printed in black and white on 24 pages, with soft end papers, stapled. Front cover bears emblems of a Scottish lion, Edinburgh Castle and a saint. Contents include list of office bearers and committees 1931-32, report on postgraduate lecture on psychology of perception by Professor Thouless, an article on epiphoria (interference with the drainage of the lachrymal secretion), an article on the Scottish Optical Conference in Perth, questions from the Qualifying Student's Examinations April 1932, and a promotion for classes for qualifying students session 1932-33. Full-page advertisements for: London Optical Company (rimless eyewear with the new Lonflex bridge), Nitsche & Gunther Optical Co (1927) Ltd (Durella frames with interlocking joints), Kirk Brothers ('optical equipment of every description'), George Culver Ltd (The Revluc Amblyo-Corrector), Lenton & Rusby Ltd (new branch in Miller St, Glasgow), Lancashire Optical Manufacturing Company Ltd ('The reward of enterprise': Ardley Frames), The Hadley Company ('Buy British') and, on back cover J. R. Fleming Ltd (specialists in toric). Smaller advertisements for Butterworths (Edinburgh) Ltd, Willmotts Limited ('when ordering cases...'), Scott & Madill (Union Improved Astigmatic Chart), Royal Optical Co., Lever Brothers (The Farrer Duochrome Chart), The Anglo-American Optical Co (Eng.) Ltd (Rx work).
2019.806/11
Gift of the late Mr Thomas McConnochie, via Dr Kathryn McConnochie, 2019