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AN UNFAMILIAR RAILWAY DANGER, 
Sir,—In a short paper by Mr. Griesbach, C.1.H., of the Geological 
Survey of India, which appears in the Records of that Survey for 
May, 1895,’ we learn that both lines of rails of the frontier section of 
the North-Western Railway, near the Station of Sanzal, in the 
neighbourhood of the Kojak Range, in Baltchistan, became violently 
distorted where crossed obliquely by a line of fissure which was. 
caused by the earthquake of the 20th of December last. The first 
and most severe shock occurred at 5.40 a.m., but several others 
recurred at frequent intervals during that day and the two following. 
Photograveur illustrations of the scene showing the deflection of the 
rails, as well as a plan to scale, are given, from which it appears. 
that the curvature of both pairs of rails, within a length of from 
30 to 40 feet, shifted them more than the width of the track in each 
case, the curves being so sharp that any train passing along the 
lines in the dark, or without the occurrence being noticed or looked 
for, must have been wrecked. Buildings suffer more from earth- 
quakes than Railways, still, these earth-movements are not so un- 
common that Railway Companies should neglect the hint given by 
the occurrence. A. B. W. 
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THE REV. HENRY HUGH HIGGINS, M.A. 
Born 28 January, 1814; Diep 2 Jury, 1893. 
Tue City of Liverpool has sustained a great loss in its intellectual 
life, by the death of the Rev. H. H. Higgins, M.A., who for more 
than forty years has devoted himself to the advancement of Natural 
Science in the midst of one of the busiest communities in England. 
Born at Turvey Abbey, Beds, on January 28, 1814, he entered 
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 18338, and took his B.A. degree 
in 1836. He was admitted to priest’s orders in 1839, and devoted 
four years to clerical duty in the town of Wolverhampton, pro- 
ceeding in the following year to Shrewsbury. Mr. Higgins came 
to reside in Liverpool in 1842, and occupied himself with more con- 
genial educational work, being made Inspector of the Schools of 
the Church of England School Society, a position which he resigned 
in 1848, though, as Hon. Secretary, and afterwards Hon. Treasurer, 
he retained connection with the Society. After performing other 
church duties, he was appointed Chaplain to the County Asylum, 
Rainhill, in 1853, which post he continued to hold until 1886. A 
long Hastern tour through the Holy Land and Egypt was under- 
taken in 1848, and described in a course of six lectures given at 
the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, the proceeds of which— 
amounting to £300—Mr. Higgins generously gave to the School 
Society. In 1876 he accompanied Mr. Reginald Cholmondeley in 
his steam yacht, the “ Argo,” on a voyage to the West Indies, which 
Mr. Higgins has charmingly described in a small 12mo. volume 
entitled «Notes by a Field Naturalist in the Western Tropics.” 
Valuable collections of natural history specimens, now interspersed 
1 This paper has only just come to hand since the writing of Mr. C. Davison’s 
article, see ante pp. 306-3860.—EHprt,. Grou. Mac. 
