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THE Safety in Mines Research Board has just issued Paper No. 74, which contains an account of an important conference on safety in mines held at Buxton last year. There seems no adequate reason why information about this important conference should have been so long delayed, though there may have been difficulty in getting the authors of the various papers to correct their contributions. The meeting derives its great importance from the fact that it was the first international conference of this kind. In addition to the British representatives, there were delegates from Belgium, France, Germany, and the United States. A number of important papers on mining explosives were read, and proposals were made for future international meetings, subject to ratification by the organisations concerned—a ratification which, we presume, will certainly be forthcoming. Perhaps the most important of the suggested future arrangements was that “Periodical meetings of the directors of research shall be arranged at each research station in rotation”. This arrangement would thoroughly ensure the international character of future conferences, and it is a most welcome sign that the question of safety in collieries is for the future to be treated as an international question and not as one possessing local interest only.
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Safety in Mines. Nature 130, 271 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130271b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130271b0