342 Eminent Living Geologists — Professor John Milne. 



Irkutsk. In Chili they also spend a considerable sum annually on 

 the science. Every six months a circular containing all the recent 

 registers is sent out to all the stations. This is practically a labour 

 of love on Professor Milne's part, for he liolds no official position. He 

 has already sent out forty-five of these circulars, as well as many 

 other reports for the British Association, of whose Seismological 

 Committee he has been honorary secretary for thirty-one j'ears. 



The wonderful success attending Professor Milne's work is of course 

 owing to the fact that he is the inventor and designer of nearly 

 all the apparatus in use in his hiboratory at Shijie, and not only 

 there but in well-nigh every quarter of the globe. 



Professor John Milne. D.Sc'., F.R.S. 

 From a photograph taken in 1896. 



Numerous investigations outside earthquakes have been carried on 

 by Dr. Milne. In conjunction with his friend Mr. Macdonald, of the 

 Japanese Uailway Department, he perfected an instrument on the 

 same principle as the seismograph for recording the vibrations of 

 trains. By this means any defect in the engine or the permanent 

 way can be at once discovered. These instruments are universally 

 in use on Japanese railways, and will probably be taken up by British 

 lines presently. 



Notwithstanding the remoteness of Shide House, and the desire 

 and necessity for quietude in order to carry out practicallj' the various 

 problems which Dr. Milne's active and inventive brain may suggest, 

 his visitors' book shows that he has only imperfectly accomplished his 

 object. From all parts of England these pilgrim questioners have 

 come, from Scotland and from Ireland. All the great Universities 

 are represented — Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cambridge, Oxford, Sheffield 



