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Visitors. — Although many visitors have called at Shide Observatory 

 merely to satisfy curiosity, there have been a number who have visited 

 this station with the express object of obtaining information which they 

 could turn to practical account. The following gentlemen spent two 

 days at Shide to study the routine of a seismological observatory : N. K. 

 Fennimore (St. Helena), C. E. Pain (Seychelles), F. Marx (Ascension), 

 J. G. Meats (St. Vincent, Cape Verde), H. G. Thomas (Cocos), 

 0. E. Holmes (Fernando Norhona), R. Eankine (Fiji), J. J. Shaw (West 

 Bromwich), F. Eyan (Electra House, London), the Eev. A. L. Cortie, 

 S.J. (Stonyhurst). Other visitors practically interested in seismology 

 were F. E. Norris (Guildford), G. W. Walker (Eskdalemuir), W. E. 

 Cooke (Perth), Major A. E. Galbraith, E.E. (Osborne), Lieut. W. A. 

 Moore, E.A. (Freshwater), Professor F. G. Baily (Edinburgh), Pro- 

 fessor H. H. Turner (Oxford), and M. H. Gray (Abbey Wood). 

 W. E. Hearn (Consul-General, San Francisco) and Professor E. F. 

 Pinto Basto (Coimbi'a) both gave assistance towards obtaining material 

 for a catalogue of destructive earthquakes. In addition to these indi- 

 vidual visitors, Shide was visited by several parties, the Lymington 

 Natural Science Society, some twenty visitors from Eouen, Professor 

 Velain with his assistants and a number of students from the Sor- 

 bonne. These latter took a keen interest in everything they saw, and 

 were particularly struck with the method followed by the British 

 Association in making seismological observations as contrasted with 

 the method which is now in process of extension in their own country. 

 From Japan we were visited by Count Otani Kodzui and two of his 

 assistants, who had just returned from Central Asia, where incidentally 

 they had observed large earthquakes. Their records were compared with 

 those obtained at European and other stations. Professor H. Nakano 

 very kindly offered to give us such assistance as he was able in obtaining 

 more complete records from Japan. I may add that for a considerable 

 time past we have been indebted to Mr. J. Eippon, of the West India Cable 

 Company, for registers of earthquakes which have occurred in Jamaica. 



II. New Stations. 



Installations are now in working order at West Bromwich and 

 Guildford, and shortly we expect to receive a large series of records 

 which have been made from Melbourne. Through the kind co-opera- 

 tion of the Eastern, Eastern Extension and Pacific Telegraph Company, 

 instruments will very shortly be established at St. Vincent (Cape Verde 

 Islands), Ascension, St. Helena, Seychelles, Cocos and Fanning Islands. 

 Other cable companies are considering the advisability of establishing 

 instruments at certain of their stations, whilst, largely in consequence of 

 the interest taken in seismological observations by Sir Everard im Thurn, 

 an instrument will very shortly be shipped to Fiji. Inquiries have 

 also been received respecting the installation cf seismographs in several 

 other colonies. New recording instruments in which the paper moves 

 at the rate of 240 mm. per hour have been adopted at the Royal Obser- 

 vatory, Edinburgh; by the Geographical Society, Lima, Peru; and at 



