| Description | In pursuance of their conversations, she wishes to lay a statement before Council of the Royal Society. Her husband [John Tyndall] served on the Royal Commissions on Accidents in Mines, and was deeply impressed with the hardships and risks of miners. Had Tyndall lived, he intended to dedicate time to the improvement of conditions in mines. He wished to entrust £1,000 to the Royal Society to be expended for the benefit of coal-workers, whether as prizes or rewards for safety inventions, or as aid to widows and orphans. The second of these objects had been accomplished by the operation of the Workmen's Compensation Act, but the first object remains. Mrs.Tyndall's desire is that the Fund might be used for rewards or studentships, or in any other way that the Society might approve, for research in all matters pertaining to mining. |