Seismology

Abstract

PROFESSOR MILNE spent more than twenty years in Japan. When he went there he was experienced as a miner and geologist; and had spent years in Newfoundland, Iceland, Arabia, Siberia and Mongolia as an explorer. He was Professor of mining and geology, and later, of seismology, but for twenty-three years he seems to have devoted himself to the one subject, seismology. The Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan are mainly of his writing. He has published books and numerous papers in England. Through his influence the Japanese Government has established many seismological observatories. He seems to have made a thorough trial of hundreds of seismometers. He enlisted the observational services of many of the foreigners living in Japan. As Secretary of the British Association Committee he has written numerous valuable reports. He has induced all the engineers and architects in Japan to build in accordance with the conclusions drawn by him from his observations. During the last two years he has been the means of establishing twenty-three seismological stations over the world, and he considers it his duty to keep in communication with them all.

Seismology.

By John Milne Pp. xvi + 320. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., Ltd.)