Eminent Living Geologists — Profei<sor John Milne. 343 



University, University College, London, Bristol University, Tokyo, 

 Jamaica, California, Corfu, Bermuda, Milan, Pans, Pennsylvania, and 

 Greenwicli Observatory. His visitors include the Pi'esidents of many 

 learned societies and Princes of various countries. His Majesty 

 King George, who was then Prince of Wales, accompanied by the 

 late Duke of Clarence, visited Dr. Milne's Earthquake Establishment 

 in Japan, and the present Prince of Wales, while a cadet at the 

 Royal Naval College, Osborne, visited the station at Shide. 



It seems a lifetime to recall, as I am able, the days when 

 Professor John Milne was a student at the Boyal School of Mines, 

 a keen young geologist and mineralogist, and an enthusiastic follower 

 of Professor Sir Warington Smyth, his instructor. 



What is the secret of his attractiveness and his perennial youth? 

 It is the cheerful light-heartedness of his disposition, which has never 

 deserted him in all these years, but has sustained his spirit and given 

 him the power to infect others with the same interest and enthusiasm 

 in his work and carry them along with him. 



The phenomena of earthquakes are at once his serious study and 

 his delightful occupation. For him the earth is like an .^Eolian harp, 

 it vibrates to the influence of every heavenly body, it is played upon 

 by the sun's tropic rays, buffeted by the unruly ocean in its lap, 

 resounds to the stress of the storm-winds, is shaken by earthquakes 

 and volcanoes from pole to pole, yet repeats, by a tender throb to his 

 seismometer at Shide, the faintest vibration even from a distance of 

 twelve thousand miles away. g;. W. 



List of Publications by Professor J. Milne, D.Sc, F.B.S., F.G.S.^ 



1874. "Notes on the Physical Features and Mineralogy of Newfoundland " : 



Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxx, pp. 722-45. 

 " Geological Notes from the Neighbourhood of Cairo " : Geol. Mag., 

 Vol. I (2), pp. 353-62. 



1875. "Geological Notes on the Sinaitic Peninsula and North-Western 



Arabia " : Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxi, pp. 1-28. 



1876. "Ice and Ice-work in Newfoundland": Geol. Mag., Vol. Ill (2), 



pp. 308-8, 345-50, 403-10. 



1877. "On the Action of Coast-ice on an Oscillating Area" : Quart. Journ. 



Geol. Soc, vol. xxxiii, pp. 929-31. [Abridged.] 

 "Considerations on the Flotation of Ice-bergs": Geol. Mag., 



Vol. IV (2), pp. 65-71. 

 (With Alexander Murray) " On the Eocks of Newfoundland " : ibid., 



pp. 251-62. 

 " A Visit to the Volcanoes of Oshima " : ibid., pp. 193-9. 

 "Across Europe and Asia. Travelling Notes": ibid., pp. 289-97, 



337-46, 389-406, 459-68, 511-18, 557-68; Vol. V (2), pp. 29-37, 



62-73. 



1878. " On the Form of Volcanoes " : ibid., Vol. V (2), pp. 337-45. 



1879. "Journey across Europe and Asia": Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan, 



vol. vii, pp. 1-72. 

 " A Cruise among the Volcanoes of the Kurile Islands " : Geol. Mag., 



Vol. VI (2), pp. 337-48. 

 " Further Notes upon the Form of Volcanoes " : ibid., pp. 506-14. 

 Notes on Crystallography and Crystallo-physics. London : Triibner 



and Co. 

 " On the Stone Age in Japan" : Eep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., p. 401. 



1 Compiled by C. P. Chatwin, P.E.M.S. 



