MEMOIRS 



OF THE 



GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



A Catalogue of Indian Earthquakes from the earliest time to the 

 end of A. D. 1869, by the late Thomas Oldham, ll.d., f.r.s., &c, 

 Stcperintendent of the Geological Survey of India. 



In the preparation of the following catalogue, the authorities which 

 have been accessible to me were — ' The Earthquake Catalogue of the 

 British Association, by Robert and J. W. Mallet, London, 1858/ 

 This catalogue only comes down to the close of 1842. For years subse- 

 quent to that date, the valuable series of catalogues published by Pro- 

 fessor Perrey of Dijon, which appear in different numbers both of the 

 ' Memoires de V Academie de Dijon/ and in the c Bulletin/ and in the 

 e Memoires Couronnees, de V Acad, de Belgique/ have been eousulted. 

 The valuable papers of Baird Smith, in the Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal, on Indian Earthquakes have also been useful, but 

 unfortunately do not come down later than 1843 ; also the papers of Dr. 

 G-. Buist in the e Trans. Bombay Geog. Soc/ The files of the well- 

 known weekly paper, The Friend of India, ixom 1843, for the use of 

 which I am indebted to the courtesy of the Editor, Gf. Smith, ll.d., 

 have been carefully gone over. The travels of Vigne, Moorcroft, Mas- 

 son, Burnes, Thomson, Hooker and others, private communications as 

 well as unpublished official records and the pages of the ' Asiatic 

 Journal/ the ' Asiatic Annual Register/ and numerous other periodicals, 

 have all contributed more or less to the list. In all cases, excepting 

 when such is specially stated, the original papers or books in which the 

 descriptions are given have been referred to. 



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