The Optical Society was a scientific society founded in London in 1899, which published Transactions of the Optical Society.
The Optical Society was founded on 26 October 1899.
[1] The founders included Charles Algernon Parsons and Frank Twyman.
Its meetings were mostly held at Imperial College London.
[2] In 1932 it merged with the Physical Society of London,[2] becoming the Optical Group of the Physical Society, and later the Optical Group of the Institute of Physics.