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ON October 2 the Institution of Mining Engineers held its annual meeting, at which Prof. J. S. Haldane was inducted into the presidential chair and gave his presidential address. The occasion was sufficiently unusual to merit special comment. It is not an ordinary occurrence for the president of an engineering institution to be a professor of physiology; but Prof. Haldane is no ordinary physiologist. He has practically devoted his life to a study of the physiological problems which the miner's occupation presents, and to the discovery of how the miner's health and safety of life and limb are affected by the incidence and accidents of his occupation, and how the ill-effects of these can be guarded against. It is not too much to say that it is to Prof. Haldane's studies that thousands of coal miners in Great Britain owe their lives and health to-day, and that he has played a leading part in the battle against the dangers of the industry which mining engineers are waging with such conspicuous success that coal mining in Great Britain is safer than in any other country in the world.
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The Human Factor in Coal Mining. Nature 114, 598–599 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114598a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/114598a0