43S 



Accident at "Felling Colliery^ 



[JUNJS^ 



jesteem and satisfactiori for the experiments previously com* 

 municateclj (Jeseryes new ones for those which he has just pre- 

 sented. 



2. That his memoir on vomiting, destined to be ever after 

 cited in physiological worksj is worthy in the first place of being 

 mentioned in tlie history of the labours of the Class, and of an 

 honourable place in its memoirs. 



3. That M. Magendie ought to be invited by the President to 

 give to his experiments the farther developements of which they 

 are susceptible ; and to demand, if he thinks proper, a reim- 

 bursement of the expenses which he may have incurred, or may 

 still incur, in the further prosecution of the subject ; for we 

 expect that he will examine with particular attention the pheno- 

 mena of vomiting in birds, and other animals destitute of a 

 •diaphragm. 



(Signed) Cuvibr, Pinel, Humboldt, Percy, Reporter, 



The Class approves of this Report, and adopts its conclusionsp 

 Certified conformable to the original. 

 The Perpetual Secretary, Knight of the Empire, 



G, CUVIER, 



Article IV. 



Jtn Account of the dreadful Accident which happened at Felling 

 Colliery ^ near Sunderland, on May 25th, 1812. Extracted 

 from an introductory account prefixed to the Funeral Sermon 

 preached on the occasion, and published, by the Rev, John 

 Jiodgson, 



(Concluded from No V. 365.) 



On the 1st of Jun^, one of the ropes of the scaffold gave 

 way, and on the next day, about five o'clock in the afternoon, 

 the whole of it fell to the bottom of the pit. Immediately after 

 this a second scaffold was suspended 5 but when eight fothers of 

 clay had been thrown upon it, it also broke its ropes and fell to 

 the bottom, about eight o'clock on the evening of the same day. 

 At ten o'clock another expedient was resorted to t three beams 

 of timber were laid across the mouth of the shaft, a little below 

 the surface, and these were traversed with strong planks, upon 

 which, on that evening, and early next morning, a body of clay 

 was laid four feet thick, and firmly beaten together. At the 

 safpe lime a ten inch stopping of brick ^nd lijne was put ijitp 



