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THE recent meeting-the outcome of the happy suggestion of a number of representative Cornishmen more than a year ago—furnished an opportunity such as has never before occurred, for the members of council and officers of our principal scientific and technical societies to meet each other, while at the same time making acquaintance with the mining and engineering industries of what is one of the oldest mining districts in the world, and probably the premier district as regards record of continuous working. Visits to typical tin-mines, china-clay pits, and engineering works formed part of the programme, including a trip to the uranium mines from which the British Radium Corporation obtains its supplies of pitchblende.
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Joint Meeting of Learned and Technical Societies in Cornwall . Nature 89, 591 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089591a0
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