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Excerpt from The Smoke Problem of Great Cities
The committee was purely voluntary originally it relied to a considerable extent upon the good Offices of the Lancet, which had not only facilities in regard to publication but also a laboratory which was then in charge of the late Mr. S. A. Vasey, himself a member of the committee. He was very helpful in finding a way through the difficult questions Of the chemical analysis of the large bottles Of dirty water which represented a month's material for investigation. The other active members of the committee were Dr. Des Voeux, treasurer of the Coal Smoke Abatement Society, Mr. J. G. Clarke, Dr. R. Lessing, all of London, Mr. J. B. O. Kershaw, of Manchester, and Bailie W. Smith, of Glasgow.
Some of these names were already well-known, and have now become still better known, in connection with the Smoke problem of great cities, but the question referred to the committee was limited to the investigation of the amount and nature of atmospheric pollution for its own sake, to adopt a phrase that, by long use, has acquired a sort of scientific implication. The reader must therefore exonerate our colleagues on the committee from responsibility for any thing outside the limits oi purely scientific inquiry which may be found in these pages.
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