Royal Institution | 11 March 1845
Sir
I beg to thank you & through you the Committee for the kindness which has been shewn us in favouring us with copies of the report1[.] I have sent the six to Mr Lyell & am quite sure I may give his acknowledgments with my own[.]
The coal mine is indeed an extraordinary & wonderful subject for study and the more one thinks of it the more one wishes that there were some constant, successive & published record of its principles in construction and management, its policy, its arrangements; its plans, improvements, progressive workings from year to year; its casualties of various kinds and the other numerous points connected with its state & welfare. This would tend, as it does in every other case, to improve the practice of mining; to develope the true condition of natural circumstances in mines; and would supply a mass of unbiassed data & information on which the mind could fall back for matter of consideration & help in judgment in any case of difficulty such as that at the Haswell Colliery[.]
I have the honor to be | Sir | Your Very Obedient | Servant | M. Faraday
H. Taylor Esq | &c &c &c
JOHNSON, George (1845a): Report addressed to the United Committee of the Coal Trade, by the special committee appointed to take into consideration the Report from Messrs. Lyell and Faraday, to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, “On the subject of the explosion at the Haswell Collieries, and on the means of preventing similar accidents, Durham.
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