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Show Slump in Microscopes. The general depression in the optical op-tical trade is being felt very severely by British microscope makers, most of whom are working with reduced staffs. Some are only working alternate alter-nate weeks. This Is partly due, no doubt, to overproduction during the war, when a large number of microscopes micro-scopes were supplied to the order of the government, but even taking this Into account the demand is now abnormally ab-normally small. With hospitals poverty pov-erty is a natural excuse, but in other cases, such as that of schools, it is not so easy to explain why so few new instruments are being purchased. According Ac-cording to one large firm the great majority of microscopes now purchased pur-chased are for purposes connected with mineralogy. Manchester Guardian. |