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in the scientific circles of the age, and represented the highest levels 

 in different branches of science. The aims and tasks accomplished of 

 this institntion, as well as the results of investigations obtained up 

 to 1904, have been su.mmarized by the lucid pen of its founder, 

 Baron Kikuchi, in No. 19 of the Pul)lications of the E.I.C. which 

 gives an excellent bird's eye view of the various fields of activity in 

 which the members of the Committee were working, viz. statistical, 

 instrumental, physical, geological and practical. Since that date, the 

 activities of the Committee were continued in the same lines with 

 unfailing zeal up to the present day. The following list of publica- 

 tions issued is an eloquent witness of the deeds achieved by this 

 organization : 



Reports of the Earthq. Invest. Comm. (in Japanese) 100 Vols. 



Publications „ ,, „ 26 ,, . 



Bulletin „ „ „ 11 „ . 



Seismological Notes 6 „ . 



Besides the^e official reports presented to the Committee, many 

 important works written by the members of the Committee, as well 

 as by other physicists, have been published in different scientific 

 journals, such as the Journal of the College of Science, Proceedings 

 of the Tokyo Physico-Mathematical Society, Journal of the Meteoro- 

 logical Society of Japan, Umi to Sora^^^, etc. 



Those who take a glance at the list of pa];ers which have 

 appeared in the different publications of the EJ.C. will wonder at 

 the inexhaustible activity of Prof. On:iori to whom l)y far the great 

 majority of the items are due. To do justice, however, to the other 

 members of the Committee, it must be remarked that they were all, 

 at the same time, engaged in their own proper professions of grave 

 importance, in different branches of the government's scientific invest- 

 igations and this study of earthquakes and attendant phenomena was 

 in the nature of a parergon. It is probably due to this circumstance 

 that seismology in Japan is said to have taken a somewhat oi.e-sided 

 course of development. 



The study of seismology has not, however, been monopolized 

 by the authorities of the E.I.C. The cradles of the younger genera- 

 tion of seismologists have been set up here and there in various quiet 



(1) Umi to Sora (Skv and Water), a monthly jourBal published by a body of 

 meteorologists in the Imperial Marine Observatory of Kobe, 



