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common belief—and a reasonable one—that a place which has 
suffered from one great earthquake is not likely to experience 
another for a considerable period. This is borne out by our ex- 
perience in India, although the great Dharamsala earthquake 
of 1905 was succeeded only twelve years later (May 10th, 1917) 
by a shock which was severe enough to throw down several 
houses and to damage others severely ; the destruction, how- 
ever, was due rather to the methods of construction employ 
in Dharmsala than to the violence of the shock. 
a by themselves, the observations of Indian earth- 
quakes recorded during the past nine years extend over much 
too short a period to justify us in drawing con from 
the past seismological history of India, they confirm the conelu- 
sion that the Peninsula is remarkably stable, that most of our 
earthquakes are associated with the faulted zone along the 
Himalayan mountain foot or with the other young mountam 
ranges of Assam, Burma, Sind and Baluchistan, and that, al- 
though the plains frequently suffer from the effects of majot 
shocks occurring in the latter zone, earthquakes of any magni 
that they should have persisted to the present day, an bee 
causes of the high seismicity of Delhi and of the violent Mu 
earthquake of 1803 are still obscure. 
—>—. 
The President announced the election of Officers and 
Members of Council for the year 1918 to be as follows :— 
President : 3 
H. H. Hayden, Esq., C.LE., D.Sc., B.A., B.A.L, F.G5: 
FASB. FERS. ’ 
Vice-Presidents - L 
The Hon. Justice Sir Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya, Kt., C8. 
; starred: D.Sc., F.R.S.E., F.R.AS., F.A:S.B. B 8. 
Lieut.-Col. Sir Leonard Rogers, Kt., C.I.E., M.D. 
F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., F.A.S.B., F.R.S., I.M.S. 
