Department of scientific and industrial research: scottish office


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ABSTRACT The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research has opened a Scottish Office at 18 Melville Street, Edinburgh, to facilitate closer contact with Scotland. The office will have


a dual function—to encourage the prosecution of research by industry itself and to increase the effectiveness of the contribution which existing Government research establishments make to


Scottish industry. The new office will co-operate with the Departments of the Secretary of State for Scotland, with the organisations in Scotland of other Government departments, and with


voluntary bodies such as the Scottish Council (Development and Industry). It will also study the Scottish industrial position with the view of assisting in the formulation of problems


suitable for research. The office will apply existing research facilities as effectively as possible to Scottish needs. Dr. H. Buckley will be in charge of the new office. A graduate of the


University of Manchester, Dr. Buckley was for a time on the staff of the University of Toronto. He returned to Britain and entered the National Physical Laboratory, where he served for


twenty-five years, his special field of research being photometry and illumination. During the Second World War he was for a time a liaison officer in the British Commonwealth Scientific


Office in Washington and, during the last three years, he has been a member of the Intelligence Division at the headquarters office of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.


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