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Founders of Seismology, IV

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Extract

In the GeologicalMagazine for 1921 (LVIII, pp. 98–107, 241–250, 385–396), three papers were published on founders of seismology, of English birth—John Michell, Robert Mallet, and John Milne. The series was afterwards continued so as to include similar workers in other countries, France, Italy, Central Europe, the United States, and Japan, and the accounts were included in a volume of The Founders of Seismology, published in 1927. Within the last two years, we have lost three men whose work entitles them to places among the founders—Bunjiro Koto, Mario Baratta, and Richard Dixon Oldham—and I propose in the present paper to give a brief account of the life and work of each.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1937

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References

1 Tokyo Imp. Acad. Proc., 11, 1935, p. xiv; Ital. Soc. Sism. Boll., 34, 1936, 54–6; Roy. Soc. Obit. Not., 2, 1936, 111–13. Portraits of Baratta and Oldham accompany the last two papers. Fuller accounts of the earthquakes referred to in the following pages will be found in my volume on Great Earthquakes (1936): Mino-Owari earthquake of 1891, pp. 105–129; Tazima earthquake of 1925 and Tanao earthquake of 1927, pp. 212–245; Messina earthquake of 1908, pp. 201–211; Cutch earthquake of 1819, pp. 68–76; and Assam earthquake of 1897, pp. 138–157.Google Scholar