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THE forty-eighth general meeting of the Institution of Mining. Engineers. was held on June 4 and 5 in London in the rooms of the Geological Society. Mr. C. E. Rhodes read, is presidential address, in which he stated that steps were being taken to transfer the headquarters of the institution to London. The main portion of his address was devoted to a consideration of some of the problems with which the rising generation of mining engineers will have to deal, namely, the sinking of deep shafts through water-bearing strata, the depth to which tubbing can be put in, improved methods of splitting the air which will be required at great depths for cooling down the working places, and the method of dealing with dust, which in all probability will be abundant in deep mines.
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The Institution of Mining Engineers . Nature 78, 140 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078140a0
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