ox THE VOLCANIC PHENOMENA OF JAPAN. 

 Catalogue of Earthquakes — conthiued. 



437 



Time 



H. 



4 



10 

 4 



11 

 6 



M. 



51 



12 



51 



17 



9 



41 A.M. 

 A.M. 

 52 A.M. 

 41 P.M. 

 20 P.M. 



vertical motion = 

 9 35 37 a.m. 

 11 45 5 a.m. 



6 17 14 P.M. 



7 5 9 P.M. 

 7 53 8 A.M. 



Period 

 in sees. 



Ampli- 

 tude in 



Direction 



sli 

 very 

 0'5 

 very 

 2-6 

 0-7 



ght 



slight 

 0-2 



slight 

 1-5 

 0-2 



sli'glit 



very 

 very 

 very 

 1-3 



slight 



slight 



sliglit 



1-5 



N.W.-S.E. 



E.S E.-W.N.W. 



E.-W. 



W.N.W.-E.S.B. 



Duration 



M. S. 



abt.OlO 

 4 30 

 I 



3 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. Thiselton-Dyer (Secre- 

 tary), Professor Newton, Professor Flower, Mr, Carruthers, 

 and Mr. Sclater, appointed for the purpose of reporting on 

 the present state of our knowledge of the Zoology and Botany 

 of the West India Islands, and taking steps to investigate 

 ascertained deficiencies in the Fauna and Flora. 



The Committee appointed by the Association held its first meeting on 

 January 4, 1888. At this meeting it was decided to co-operate with the 

 Committee appointed for a similar purpose by the Government Grant 

 Committee of the Royal Society. Dr. Giinther and Dr. Sharp, the only 

 members of the latter Committee who were not already members of the 

 Association Committee, were therefore added to it, and it was decided to 

 further invite the adhesion of Lieut.- Colonel Feilden, of the Army Pay 

 Department, and of Mr. D. Morris, Assistant-Director of the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew. 



Lieut.- Colonel Feilden's official duties will keep him for the next 

 few years in the British West Indies, and for the present he will act as 

 local secretary in Barbados, while Dr. H. A. Alford NichoUs, F.L.S., 

 C.M.Z.S., has kindly agreed to assist in the same capacity in Dominica. 

 In order to commence their investigations without delay the Committee 

 have secured the services of Mr. George A. Ramage, who was lately 

 associated with Mr. Ridley in his expedition to the Island of Fernando 

 Norouha, and has since been collecting at Pernambuco. Mr. Ramage 

 arrived in Dominica in March last, and has proceeded to his work with 

 great zeal. In May, after passing five weeks at Laudat, on the right bank 

 of the Roseau River, about 2,000 feet above the sea-level, he moved to 

 St. Aroment, an estate belonging to Dr. Nicholls just above Roseau, which 

 he found to be a better locality for getting his plants dried. At Landafc 

 he met with great difficulty in this matter on account of the extreme 

 wetness of the climate. Writing in May last, Mr. Ramage speaks of 

 having got, besides his plants, 'a good lot of insects, lizards, small snakes, 

 and land molluscs.' Besides these he had also obtained three examples 

 of Peripatus. 



