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Hordern, and, secondly, a daughter of the late General A. A. 

 Lane-Fox-Pitt-Bivers, F.R.S. His pre-eminently busy and useful 

 life was brought to a close on May 28th, 1913. 



Johx Milne was born at Liverpool on December 30th, 1850. 

 After completing his education at King's College and the Royal 

 School of Mines, he obtained a brief experience as a mining- 

 engineer in Newfoundland and Labrador while working for Cyrus 

 Field, Sir James Anderson, and others, and as a geologist while on 

 Dr. Beke's expedition into North-Western Arabia in search of the 

 exact site of Mount Sinai. At the early age of 25 he was appointed 

 by the Japanese Government Professor of Geology & Mining in the 

 University of Tokyo, and there, during his 20 years' tenure of the 

 post, found opportunity to develop the science with which his name 

 is more especially connected. His interest having been roused by 

 almost daily earthquakes, he founded a Seismological Survey, estab- 

 lishing no fewer than 968 observing stations, and training a large 

 body of native observers to keep him supplied with the information 

 on which he could construct isoseismal charts. At the same time he 

 devised recording instruments, made observations on artificial earth- 

 quakes, and studied the methods of construction which were best 

 adapted for building in earth-shaken regions. In 1900 he was largely 

 instrumental in founding the Seismological Society of Japan, the 

 first association of scientific men formed for the study of earth- 

 quakes. For fifteen years he acted as Secretary thereof, and the 

 results of his work during that period of his life fill a large pro- 

 portion of the Society's publications. 



In 1895 Milne retired from his professorship, and in 1900 settled 

 permanently at Shide in the Isle of Wight. On the eve of his 

 departure from Tokyo his home was destroyed by fire, with practi- 

 cally all its contents, including his books and instruments. 



Immediately upon his return to this country he commenced the 

 installation of a seismological observatory, which was destined to 

 make Shide a centre of interest to seismologists in all parts of the 

 world. The observations there made were supplemented by records 

 from upwards of sixty other stations, for the most part founded on 

 Milne's initiation and furnished with his type of seismograph. The 

 funds required for so extensive an organization were supplied in part 

 by the British Association, and the results of the observations were 

 laid before that body in a series of reports which continued without 

 interruption through a long succession of years. Latterly, the support 



