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Founders of Seismology.—III. John Milne

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Charles Davison
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During the period of about ten years which included that of Mallet's death—say, five years before and five after—the study of earthquakes made rapid progress. Among the more prominent contributors were M. S. de Rossi and G. Mercalli in Italy, F. A. Forel and A. Heim in Switzerland, E. Suess in Austria, J. F. J. Schmidt in Greece, T. Oldham in India, and C. G. Rockwood and C. E. Dutton in the United States. Their work, however, was mainly carried out on the old lines. For the introduction of new methods of study and of a new spirit infused into seismology, we are indebted to the small band of early British teachers in Japan, to J. A. Ewing, T. Gray, and, above all, to J. Milne. In the new epoch, now opening, when seismology demanded the whole energy of its supporters as well as their active co-operation, it is not, I think, too much to claim that Milne lifted the science to an altogether different and higher plane.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 58 , Issue 9 , September 1921 , pp. 385 - 396
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1921

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page 386 note 1 In the following pages these will be referred to as Trans., Journ., and Rep., respectively.

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