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p. G5. This is a compilation made from the translations of 64 

 different works in Japanese characters. 



3. Catalogue of Japanese Earthquakes by Dr. Edmund 

 Naumann, Mitt. d. Deutsch. Gesellschaft f. Natur u. Volkerkunde 

 Ostasiens, Aug. 1878. 



4. Destructive Earthquakes in Japan by Dr. T. Hattori, 

 Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. VI, part 2. 



Indian Records. — A great number of these have been taken 

 from a list given by Thos. Oldham in the Memoirs of the 

 Geological Survey of India, vol. XIX, part 3. Other references 

 are to be found in the Records of the Geological Survey of India, 

 vol. XVII, part 2, vol. XVIII, parts 3 & 4, vol. XXVI, part 2. 

 The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. XLVII, part 2, 

 pp. 131-140. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 

 March 1883, pp. 60-66. 



British Records. — These were taken from the " East Anglian 

 Earthquake of 1884 " by R. Meldola and W. White, published by 

 the Essex Field Club and Macmillan & Co., London, and also 

 from an excellent catalogue by W. Roper, printed in Lancaster, 

 1889. His list of references occupies two pages. 



Icelandic Records. — These were abstracted by C. A. Gosch, 

 Esq., from " Jardskjalftar a Sudurlandi " and " Landskjalftar a 

 Islandi," by Thorvald Thoroddsen, Copenhagen, 1899-1905. A 

 second abstract of this work was received from the Hon. Sir 

 Allan Johnstone, British Minister in Denmark. 



Central American Records. — These were taken from 

 Tremblements de Terre et Eruptions Volcaniques au Centre- 

 Amerique par F. de Montessus de Ballore, published at Dijon, 

 Imprimerie et Lithographic Eugene Jobard, 9 Place Darcy, 1888. 

 Emilio Bose in his " Temblor del 14 de Avril de 1907 " published 

 by the Instituto Geologico de Mexico, 1908, gives a list of 

 destructive earthquakes which have occurred in or near to 

 Acapulco. 



Mexican Records. — A full list of destructive earthquakes 

 which have taken place in Mexico is given by D. Juan Orozco y 

 Berra, in Memorias de la Sociedad, Cientifica "Antonio Alzate," 

 commencing in Tomo 1, niimeros 6 y 7, ending in numero 8. 

 His first date is 1460 and his last 1899. An abstract in the 

 Spanish language of this work I received through tbe Foreign 

 Office from His Majesty's Representative in Mexico, His 

 Excellency Reginald T. Tower, C.V.O. From 1899 to 1909 

 entries are given which are not found in the original work. 



Peruvian Records. — Through the Foreign Office I received 

 from Lucien J. Jerome, Acting Charge d'Affaires, a list of earth- 

 quakes which have taken place in Peru, drawn up by Mr. H. 

 Hope-Jones, a member of the Geographical Society of Lima. 



Chilian Records. — Through the Foreign Office and His 

 Excellency H. C. Lowther, I received from Count F. de 

 Montessus de Ballore a provisional list of destructive earth- 

 quakes of the Southern Andes, south of latitude 16° (S. Peru, 



