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Jan 1891
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1891natur..43..222f&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 43, Issue 1106, pp. 222 (1891).
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THE interesting article on the above subject which appeared in your issue of December 18 (p. 152) is one of those periodical reminders that Englishmen-as if not content with the innumerable climatic ills to which they are unhappily heirs-are yearly endeavouring their ``level best'' to make city life more and more polluted and noxious. It is apparently in vain that they are constantly shown how injurious to human comfort in every way, how fatal to plant life, and how destructive to architecture, is this accumulation of unburnt fuel in the air; neither, strange to say, are they more heedful of the enormous annual waste, sheer waste, of fuel: to all arguments and expostulations they oppose stolid apathy. Seeing how hopeless it is to induce any active interest in this question among the inert mass of citizens, your contributor very sensibly suggests an appeal to the County Council to take up the matter. My object in writing is to offer a further suggestion on the modus operandi. Why not invite the Councils of all our learned and scientific Societies and institutions to combine in a memorial to either the County Council or Parliament direct, asking for legislation on this smoke question, and for simple machinery to enforce such legislation? I cannot but think that such a memorial, signed by, e.g., the Royal Society, the Chemical, Linnean, Astronomical, and the various other Societies, by the College of Surgeons, the Royal Academy, and in fact by the re presentatives of all such corporations would carry very great weigh.
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