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[NOTE.—The following pages contain a summary of an interesting but little known paper by Dr. August Schmidt, of Stuttgart. An English translation was prepared by the late Dr. E. von Rebeur-Paschwitz for the Seismological Journal of Japan, but arrived too late for publication in the concluding volume of the series. The original being too long for insertion in NATURE, I have condensed it at the translator's request, at the same time adhering as closely as possible to the author's words. The title of the paper is “Wellenbewegung und Erdbeben ein Beitrag zur Dynamik der Erdbeben” (Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterl. Naturkunde in Württemburg, 1888, pp. 248-270). In a later paper (same journal, 1890, pp. 200-232), Dr. Schmidt applies his theory to the Swiss earthquake of January 7, 1889, and the Charleston earthquake of August 31, 1886.—C. DAVISON.]
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Dr. A. Schmidt's Theory of Earthquake-Motion. Nature 52, 631–633 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052631a0
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