NOTES AND 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE EARTHQUAKE 



OF DECEMBER THE 17TH, 1896 



CONTRIBUTED BY MEMBERS OF THE 



COTTESWOLD CLUB, AND EDITED BY THE 



REV. H. H. WINWOOD, VICE-PRESIDENT 



The earthquake which occurred with especial severity 

 in the Cotteswold and neighbouring districts on the 

 morning of Thursday, the 17th oi December, 1896, has 

 not unjustly been characterised by Mr Symons as the 

 greatest English earthquake (except the Essex one, in 

 1884) of modern times. It was therefore thought that a 

 permanent record of the occurrence would find an appro- 

 priate place in the Proceedings of the Cotteswold Club, 

 and a circular was sent by the Secretary to all the 

 members, requesting those who had made any definite 

 and noteworthy observations of the phenomenon, or who 

 had heard any really trustworthy accounts of the details 

 of it from others, to commit them to paper and send 

 them in; for the purpose of forming the basis of a short 

 report on the subject. 



As an indication of the kind of information which 

 would be most useful, the following series of questions, 

 formulated by Dr C. Davison, F.G.S., who has made 

 seismology his special study, was sent with the circular. 



