Background
He was the second son of Peter Le Neve Foster, and was born at Camberwell on the 23rd of March 1841.
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191 pages, frontispiece and 43 illustrations. A classic on air quality, nature and composition in mining. ByHALDANE, John Scott (1860-1936) Eminent Scottish respiratory physiologist, educated at the Universities of Edinburgh and Jena, and Fellow of New College, Oxford. He investigated deaths in a colliery explosion in South Wales in 1896, concluding that the 52 men who died succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning. It was mainly though his work that the physiological mechanism and toxic effects of carbon monoxide were made known towards the end of the 19th century. He also described silicosis, gas warfare, submarine living, hookworm infection causing anemia in miners, and popularized the use of oxygen therapy during World War l. He examined blood gases and produced his first respiratory gas analyzer in 1898. He also discovered the role of ferricyanide in releasing oxygen from oxy-hemoglobin. His work culminated in his book, Respiration, published in 1922.
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geologist mineralogist scientist
He was the second son of Peter Le Neve Foster, and was born at Camberwell on the 23rd of March 1841.
After receiving his early education at Boulogne and Amiens, he studied successively at the Royal School of Mines in London and at the mining college of Freiburg in Saxony.
In 1860 he joined the Geological Survey in England, working in the Wealden area and afterwards in Derbyshire. Conjointly with William Topley (1841 - 1894) he communicated to the Geological Society of London in 1865 the now classic paper "On the superficial deposits of the Valley of the Medway, with remarks on the Denudation of the Weald". In this paper the sculpturing of the Wealden area by rain and rivers was ably advocated. Retiring from the Geological Survey in 1865, Foster devoted his attention to mineralogy and mining in Cornwall, Egypt and Venezuela. In 1872 he was appointed an inspector of mines under the home office for the S. W. of England, and in 1880 he was transferred to the N. Wales district. In 1890 he was appointed professor of mining at the Royal College of Science and he held this post until the close of his life. His later work is embodied largely in the reports of mines and quarries issued annually by the home office. He was elected F. R. S. in 1892. While investigating the cause of a mining disaster in the Isle of Man in 1897 his constitution suffered much injury from carbonic-oxide gas, and he never fully recovered from the effects. Besides his official work, Foster produced numerous reports, and advised on many questions connected with mining and mining legislation. He served on various departmental committees and royal commissions, including those for the Chicago and the St. Louis Exhibitions. He was a juror at the Inventions Exhibition in 1885, at Paris in 1867, 1878, 1889, and 1900, also at Chicago in 1893. He died in London on the 19th of April 1904. He published Ore and Stone Mining, 1894 (ed. 5, 1904); and The Elements of Mining and Quarrying, 1903.
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Fellow of the Royal Society
He was distinguished for his extensive scientific and practical knowledge of metalliferous mining and stone quarrying.
He married in 1872 his cousin, Sophia Chevallier, second daughter of Arthur F. Tompson of Belton, Suffolk, and had one son and two daughters.