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Chilean government to make a scientific investigation of the phe- 
nomena accompanying the shocks that destroyed Valparaiso, badly 
damaged Santiago and razed to the ground many small towns and 
pueblos between the capital and the coast. 
The above commission is composed of the following persons: 
Senior Sundt, geologist, engineer. 
Sefior Taulis, chief of the Meteorological Station of the Quinta 
Normal, the Government Experiment Station. 
Sefior Poenish, professor of astronomy at the University. 
Sefior Steffen, professor of geology at the University. 
Sefior Ziegler, professor of mathematics and cosmography at the 
University. 
Sefior Machado, geologist of the National Museum. 
Senior Obrecht, Director of the Astronomical Observatory. 
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