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As an example, your analyst has recently purchased a spectrophotometer
which, with the ancillary equipment, cost over £850. Not many years
ago a large laboratory could have been equipped for such a sum. The
use of such equipments moreover, requires highly skilled staff. who are
difficult to obtain when the demand for scientists exceeds the supply,
and more lucrative fields are open to them. How the situation can
best be handled is difficult to foresee, but it is one to which
considerable thought must be given in the near future.
I am, Mr, Mayor, My Lord, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
THOMAS McLACLHUN, A.C.G.F.C., F.R.I.C.M.I.Biol.
Public Analyst.