R., S. Not identified. The initials appear in the Office Book and also as signature to the writer's contribution, which is in the form of a letter to the editor. The writer states that the method of preventing colliery explosions proposed in "A Remedy for Colliery Explosions," Dec. 18, 1850, is but a partial and uncertain method; he endorses the system of Government inspection urged in the editorial comment at the end of the article "A Coal Miner's Evidence," Dec. 7, 1850. No payment recorded for the contribution. 

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971