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EARTHQUAKES have come home to us of late, and we presume that the more general interest, which is now taken in them, is the cause of the publication of this book, on a subject with which the author seems very imperfectly acquainted. The keynote of the work is struck very early in the book, in a summary of the history of modern seismology, which would lead one to suppose that little of any importance had been done outside Germany and Austria; no mention is made of the Seismological Society of Japan, and it is erroneously stated that the International Seismological Association has “published at regular intervals the ‘Beiträge zur Geophysik.’ ” The reports of the sessions of the association have certainly been published as supplementary volumes of this periodical, which, is an independent publication, and one of the reasons for the abstention of those seismologists who have held aloof is that the association has been made to appear as the appanage of a private venture.
Earthquakes, an Introduction to Seismic Geology.
By William Herbert Hobbs. Pp. xxxi + 336. (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1907.) Price 2 dollars net.
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Earthquakes, an Introduction to Seismic Geology . Nature 77, 481 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077481a0
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