52 REPORTS ON THE STATE OP SCIENCE. 



Palestine. — Consul E. C. Blech has forwarded a list of earthquake 

 shocks felt at Jerusalem since 1864. These were extracted from 

 records kept at the Hospital of the London Jews Society in Jerusalem. 

 One which took place at 2 a.m. local time, January 5, 1900, and 

 another which occurred on March 31, 1903, at 12.45 a.m. local time, 

 are not included in our ' Catalogue ' ; the latter damaged buildings in 

 Jerusalem. 



Panama. — The Minister Resident, Claude C. Mallet, sends a short 

 list of earthquakes which have caused damage in this Republic. Slight 

 shocks occurred on July 7, August 17, 1908, May 3, July 28, 

 August 28 and 30, 1909, but these were not of a serious nature. 



Paraguay. — Mr. G. W. E. Griffith states that no records exist to 

 show that any destruction to property has ever been caused by earth- 

 quakes in this Republic. 



Persia. — H.E. Sir G. Barclay sends a report of two earthquakes 

 which occurred in the Iverman district : April 18, 1911, 9.52 p.m. or 

 5.22 G.M.T., a shock damaged a few buildings in Kerman; March 28, 

 1911, also at 5.22 p.m. G.M.T., but it did not cause damage. 



Peru. — Consul-General Lucien J. Jerome forwards a list of earth- 

 quakes compiled by Mr. Hope Jones, a member of the Geographical 

 Society of Lima. See this Report. 



Rumania. — Sir W. Conyngham Greene forwards a pamphlet pub- 

 lished by the Astronomical and Meteorological Society of Bucharest 

 on ' Mouvements Sismiques en Roumanie pendant la periode 1907- 

 1909.' Mr. R. J. Hamilton forwards a number of pamphlets from 

 the ' Annales de 1 'Institute Meteorologique ' containing lists of earth- 

 quakes for the years 1891-1908. 



Salvador. — The British Minister, L. E. G. Carden, sends a list of 

 earthquakes compiled by the Director of the National Observatory of 

 San Salvador. The following are not included in our ' General Cata- 

 logue ' : July 19, 1906, had an intensity corresponding to No. VII 

 on the Rossi-Forel scale. In May and June 1909 slight shocks were 

 felt, and again in October 1910. 



Servia.— : The British Minister, Sir James B. Whitehead, forwards a 

 list of destructive earthquakes prepared by the Geological Institute of 

 the University in Belgrade, covering the period 1755-1905 inclusive. 

 The following are not included in our ' Catalogue ' : January 30, 1902, 

 at Mostanica, Ristovac, Vranje, and Vranjska Banja; these places 

 were also shaken on April 4 and 10, 1904. On January 6, 1905, and 

 July 24, 1906, places lying batween 44° 22' and 44° 32' N. lat. and 

 19° 21' and 19° 29' E. long, were severely shaken. On May 13, 1905, 

 the district 43° 41' to 43° 44' N. lat. and 21° 46' to 21° 54' E. long, 

 suffered. 



Siam. — Consul W. R. D. Beckett transmits a copy of a note which 

 he has received from his Royal Highness Prince Devawongse to the 

 effect that seismic disturbances in Siam have been very few in number, 

 and in no instance have they been violent enough to destroy or damage 

 buildings. 



Sierra Leone. — The Acting Colonial Secretary writes that there is 

 no record of any destructive earthquake in the history of the colony. 



