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THE pages of the Quarterly Review constitute perhaps the very last place in which one would look for a new theory on an important scientific question, and the perusal of an article in the July number of that journal on “Earthquakes: their Cause and Origin,” has left us in grave doubt as to whether the author of it is writing seriously or is perpetrating a gigantic practical joke.
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The “Quarterly Review” on Earthquakes . Nature 24, 584–585 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024584a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/024584a0