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THE Preliminary Report of this Commission, recently issued, affords a rather striking illustration of the amount of unpaid work which is occasionally done for the public by our busiest men. The Commission was appointed to inquire whether “the resources of science furnish any practicable expedients not now in use which are calculated to prevent the occurrence of accidents in mines or limit their disastrous effects.” In its constitution science was represented by the following Fellows of the Royal Society:—Mr. Warington Smyth, Prof. Abel, Prof. Clifton, and Dr. Tyndall. The employers were represented by Sir George Elliot, M.P., Mr. William Thomas Lewis, and Mr. Lindsay Wood; the employed by the Member for Morpeth, Mr. Burt. Earl Crawford (then Lord Lindsay), who was added by a subsequent Royal Warrant, combined the man of science and the employer. He is a Vice-President of the Royal Society, and is largely interested in mining industry. Mr. Warington Smyth was very properly selected by the Home Secretary to preside over the Commission, for his scientific attainments are supplemented by varied and accurate knowledge of practical mining
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The Accidents in Mines Commission . Nature 25, 97–98 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025097a0
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