524 Reviews — Dr. G. Agamennone on Earthquakes. 



the sketch of his work in Owens College from 1851 to 1892; his 

 pursuit of medicine as a practitioner in Manchester; his fossil 

 botanical studies, resulting in the fine series of monographs on the 

 microscopic structure of the plants of the Carboniferous period ; 

 the outcome of the examination of the hundreds of slides prepared 

 with his own hands; his microscopic investigation of the bones, 

 teeth, and scales of fishes : and on Foraminifera and other lowly 

 organisms : these are 011I7 a small part of the records of his 

 busy life. That he should have been elected to the Royal Society 

 in 1854, been a Royal Medallist in 1874, an LL.D. and an 

 honorary member of many learned societies, seems but fitting and 

 just. Of his social and family records much is told in this 

 volume, and we learn of all those with whom Williamson 

 became acquainted in his long life. Some of these notes 

 are of much interest, but others are only valuable to those of 

 his own immediate household. His name will survive for long in 

 scientific circles as a pala3obotanist, and his Scarborough and 

 Manchester friends will no doubt keep his memory green. Beneath 

 the surface of this long and busy life, we may read this lesson — ■ 

 that success can only be attained by patient study, diligence, and 

 self-denial; these Williamson practised, and, combined with an 

 ardent love of natural history, made the curious and inquiring 

 child the father of the earnest man of science and the Yorkshire 

 Naturalist. 



II. — Dr. Gr. Agamennone on Earthquakes in the South-East 



of Europe. 



(1) Liste des tremblements de terre qui ont eu lieu dans l'Empire 

 Ottoman pendant l'annee 1894. 



(2) Bulletin meteorologique et seismique de l'Observatoire Ini- 

 periale de Constantinople. Partie Seismique. I Annee (1895). 



(8) L'activite sismique en Orient, et en particulier dans l'Empire 

 Ottoman pendant l'annee 1895. 



(4) Tremblement de terre de Paramythia (Epire) de la nuit 

 du 13-14 mai 1895. (Boll. Soc. Sismol. Itah, i, 1895, pp. 121-130.) 



(5) Vitesse de propagation du tremblement de terre de Para- 

 mythia (Epire) dans la nuit du 13-14 mai 1895. (Boll. Soc. Sismol. 

 ItaL, ii, 1896, pp. 3-14.) 



The organization of earthquake-studies in the Balkan peninsula 

 has advanced remarkably during the last few years. The number 

 of self-recording instruments erected is still small, but as in each 

 country the Meteorological Office undertook the seismological work, 

 the existing network of stations was immediately available. In 

 Servia and, strange to say, in Austria-Hungary, no regular provision 

 seems to be made for the collection of earthquake observations; 

 but Dr. Hepites in Roumania, M. Watzoff in Bulgaria, and Dr. 

 Papavasiliou in Greece, are doing very valuable work in this 

 direction. 



In Turkey, the foundation of the geodynamic section of the 

 meteorological observatory was due to the interest excited by 



