Paper, a relation of persons killed in subterraneous damps by Robert Moray
Reference number: CLP/9i/7
Date: 1662
Description
Describes the death by fumes of out of work colliers who resorted to excavating too near old mining 'wastes' at Lord Sinclair's coalpit in Scotland after the collapse of the main room they were mining. Breaking through to the 'wastes', areas that that had previously been mined, released 'bad air' containing not only 'Damp' but 'stifling fumes and vapours' caused by fires that burned underground for years.
Read to the Royal Society on 14 January 1662
Subject: Industry / Mining
- Reference number
- CLP/9i/7
- Earliest possible date
- 1662
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Robert Moray, Paper, a relation of persons killed in subterraneous damps by Robert Moray, 1662, CLP/9i/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_9i_7/paper-a-relation-of-persons-killed-in-subterraneous-damps-by-robert-moray, accessed on 06 December 2025
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Date: 30th May 1665
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1665.0023
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