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( i ) NORTH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGINEERS. TRANSACTIONS. VOL. II 1853 & 1854. Second edition NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE: ANDREW REID, 117, PILGRIM STREET. 1863 (ii) [blank page] [iii]) INDEX TO VOL. II. A Asphyxia produced by Choke-damp 7 B Belgium Royal Academy, Transactions of........ 3 Boring, Improvements in 57 C Choke-damp, its Process in destroying Life...... 6 35 Carbonic Acid Gas, its Effects on Respiration ...... 7 Choke-damp, J. A. Longridge on.......... 35 Coking District of Northumberland and Durham...... 156 Coking Coal.......... ...... 207 Coal-Cutting Machine, Waring's.......... 67 Coal-field North of England, extent of ........ 103 D Dip and Rise Workings, Ventilation of 31 Durham Coal, its extent ............ 201 Duration of Northern Coal-field 211 221 E Extent of the North of England Coal-field........ 103 East Somerset Coal-field ............ 251 F Fire-damp in Coal Mines discussed .. 11 Felling Colliery, Plan of the Workings of........ 33 G Gauze Lamp, discussion on 78 ( iv ) Gases, Penetrating and Dangerous.......... 87 Greenwell, G. C., on Ventilating Dip and Rise Workings .. .. 31 Greenwell, G. C., on East Somerset Coal District .. .. .. 251 Gas in a state of Tension, in situ .......... 13 H Hall, T. Y., on an Improved Lamp.......... 21 Hall, T. Y., on the Northern Coal-field ........ 103 Hall, T. Y., on Dangerous Gases .. ....... 85 Hedley, J., on Mining in Staffordshire ........ 235 Household Coal District ............ 146 I Improvements in Colliery Working.......... 21 Improved Safety Lamp, Hall's .. .. 21 Improved Boring for Minerals 57 K Kind's System of Boring for Minerals 64 L Longridge, J. A., on Choke-damp, &c. 35 Lamp Gauzes, Sizes of .. .. 79 M Mackworth, H., his Letter .. .. 51 Mackworth, H., on Improved Boring 57 Mackworth, H., on Water as a Ventilating Power...... 71 Mackworth on Waring's Coal Cutter ........ 67 N Nitrogen, its Destructive Powers.......... 6 Northern Coal-field, T. Y. Hall on.......... 103 Number of Collieries.............. 195 Northumberland Coal, quantity of.......... 201 P Penetrating Dangerous Gases .......... 85 Prices of Coal, T. Y. Hall on .. .. 189 ( v ) Ports of the Northern Coal District.. .. .. 114 Q Quantity of British Coal raised .. .. 200 R Royal Belgic Academy Transactions .. 3 Railways for Carriage of Coal .. .. 184 Rents of Coal Mines.............. 193 S Safety-lamps, T. Y. Hall on............ 21 Safety-lamp, H. Mack worth's .......... 51 Sections, Coal-field given in .. .. 186 Somersetshire Coal-field .. .. 251 School of Mining discussed .. 48 Staffordshire Coal Mines ............ 235 Steam Coal District .. ............ 162 Strata of Northumberland and Durham Coal-field .. .. 127 T Tyne District Coal, Formation of the 142 Taylor, Thomas John, Paper on Gas in a State of Tension discussed 11 V Ventilation discussed .. .. 17 Ventilation by Water as a Power 71 W Waring's Coal-cutting Machine .......... 67 Water a Ventilating Power .. .. 71 Working Colliers, Number of .. ........ 195 ( vi ) ADVERTISEMENT The Institution is not, as a body, responsible for the facts and opinions advanced in the following Papers read, and in the Abstracts of the Conversations which occurred at the Meetings during the Session. ( vii ) ANNUAL REPORT The Council of the Institute have much satisfaction in congratulating the meeting on the prosperous state of the Society. Though its establishment dates no longer than two years ago, yet, during that brief period, it may be safely stated that material progress has been made, and light thrown upon various branches of mining which were previously either not at all or very imperfectly illustrated, while such current subjects of interest as are connected with the objects of the Society, whether arising within the pale of the profession, or from extraneous sources, have, it may fairly be said, met with equal consideration, and have been placed it is hoped, on their right basis by the patient investigation bestowed upon them. The Council cannot, perhaps, relate the progress of the Institute in a more effective shape, nor better shew its practically useful tendency, than by a notice of the papers which have been read and discussed at the several meetings since the commencement of its career:— 1. After the excellent Inaugural Address of the President, the earliest in the order of papers read was one by Mr. James A. Longridge, on the Steam Jet as a Motive Power for purposes of Ventilation. 2. An Account of elaborate experiments on the Relative Value of the Furnace and Steam Jet in the Ventilation of Coal Mines, by Nicholas Wood, Esq., President of the Society. 3. Account of Experiments on the same subject by Mr. William Armstrong. 4. Notices of similar Experiments by Messrs. Wm. Barkus, T. John Taylor, and Matthew B. Robson. 5. On the Ventilation and Gases of Mines, and the Working of Pillars, by Mr. William Barkus. 6. On the Subsistence of Fire Damp in a State of high Tension in Situ by Mr. T. John Taylor. (viii) 7. On Safety-lamps for lighting Coal Mines, by Mr. Nicholas Wood, with Appendix of Experiments with various Safety-lamps, by Mr. T. John Taylor and others. 8. On Safety-lamps, with an Account of a proposed improved Lamp, the main object of which is to obtain a more brilliant light than that yielded by the Davy-lamp, by Mr. T. Y. Hall. 9. Improvements in Colliery Workings, and Observations on Safety-lamps, by Mr. T. Y. Hall. 10. Observations on the greater facility of Ventilating Dip than Rise Workings, by Mr. G. C. Greenwell. 11. On Choke Damp, and the means of counteracting its effects, by Mr. James A. Longridge. 12. A communication on the subject of Safety-lamps, from Mr. Herbert Mackworth, Inspector of Mines. 13. On Improvements in Boring for Minerals, Wells, and Shafts, by Mr. Mackworth. 14. On Waring's Coal Cutting Machine, by Mr. Mackworth. 15. On Water as a Ventilating Power, by Mr. Mackworth. 16. On Penetrating Dangerous Gases, by Mr. T. Y. Hall. 17. An elaborate paper on the Extent and Probable Duration of the Northern Coal-field, with remarks upon the Coal Trade, by Mr. T. Y. Hall. 18. On Mines and Mining in the North Staffordshire Coal-field, by Mr. John Hedley. 19. Notes on the Coal-field of East Somerset, by Mr. G. C. Greenwell. The very minute manner in which the vexata quaestio of the steam jet has been investigated in the first of the foregoing series of papers may be cited as an example of what may be expected to constitute the future course of the Society on similar occasions, where a suggestion is made or an improvement proposed, which is based upon such apparently sound grounds, as entitled it at all events to investigation. In a similar manner will be hereafter tested the real value of propositions made for the improvement of Mining Science, a test beyond the reach of individuals, and which, it is obvious, could not be applied except through the medium of a united and competent body. The excellent paper of Mr. Hedley, together with various other communications received from mining districts at a distance, evince in a marked degree the advantages accruing from the establishment of the Institute, since the valuable information thus furnished, either could not [ix] be obtained, or must have been acquired by individuals at material inconvenience, and probably expense. To the foregoing outline of the proceedings of the Society may be added the equally interesting discussions which have taken place on the several papers, and the exhibition of maps and models. Such is a brief statement of the work done during the two years of the existence of the North of England Mining Institute; and the Council are gratified to say that the extension of the Society is in a ratio not incommensurate with the activity displayed by its individual members. The increase of members during the past year has been from 114 to 143, and there is every reason to believe that an augmentation may be expected for some time to continue, as the Institute becomes more generally known, and its publications more extensively consulted by scientific and practical men. The report presented by the gentlemen who have taken upon themselves the duties of the Finance Committee, affords a not unpleasing corroboration of the progress making, and the liberality with which pecuniary support is afforded to the Institute and its objects. To this essential element of success the attention of the Council will continue to be directed in the hope that the present friends of the Society will continue their support, and that others, incited by their example, will come forward for a similar purpose, not merely on particular, but also on public grounds. The much agitated question of security to the miner is obviously identified with that of mining improvement. The Council may be permitted to refer with feelings of satisfaction to the general arrangement for holding meetings, for a library, and for the safe custody of plans, models, and apparatus, which have been made under the inspection and by the care of the general Committee of the Coal Trade, as a proof of the high sense which the trade entertain of the importance of the Institute, and their wish to contribute, by every means in their power, to its prosperity and usefulness. The Council cannot view what has been done with any other feelings than those of unmixed pleasure, and they congratulate the meeting accordingly upon the convenient apartments in which they now find themselves located. It becomes, of course, one of the primary views of the Institution to collect gradually, a library of such British and Foreign publications as are connected, either immediately or indirectly with its objects. In this some progress has been made. The Society has been favoured with statistical accounts of the mines of Belgium and France.