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o£ the Royal Society was extended to the enterprise, the work 

 having become recognized as being of world-wide interest. 



Milne travelled widely. On receiving his appointment in Japan 

 lie proceeded to his post by way of St. Petersburg, through Siberia 

 and China, taking eight months to reach Shanghai, and experiencing 

 hardships which would have deterred anyone of less determined 

 character or less sturdy physique. He had already worked in 

 Newfoundland, Labrador, Iceland, and Arabia, and subsequently 

 he extended his exploration to the Pacific Coast, from the Kuriles 

 and Korea to Manila, Borneo, the Australian Colonies, and many 

 other volcanic islands. He also visited the United States. 



The results of Milne's work are recorded chiefiV in the publi- 

 cations of the Seismological and other Japanese Societies, in the 

 Reports of the British Association, the Transactions and Proceedings 

 of the Royal Society, and elsewhere ; but he contributed four papers 

 to the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society between 1873 

 and 1883, dealing with such subjects as the physical features and 

 mineralogy of Newfoundland, notes on the Sinaitic Peninsula, the 

 action of coast-ice, and the elasticity of Japanese rocks. In 1886 

 and 1898 respectively, he published in book-form 'Earthquakes 

 & other Earth-Movements ' and ' Seismology.' and in 1911 he laid 

 before the British Association a Catalogue of Destructive Earth- 

 quakes, a.d. 7 to a.d. 1899, which has been published in pamphlet 

 form. 



This great record brought honours to Milne, both in Japan and 

 at home. He was an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London. 

 In 1887 he was elected into the Royal Society, and in 1908 received 

 a Royal Medal. He became a Fellow of the Geological Society in 

 1873, and received the Lyell Medal in 1894. The Order of the 

 Rising Sun was conferred upon him in 1895 by the Emperor of 

 Japan. From the University of Oxford he received an Honorary 

 Degree of D.Sc. 



Milne died on July 31st, 1913. Though his career ended at the 

 comparatively early age of 63, while he was still in active work, he 

 had yet accomplished enough to make his name inseparable from 

 the study to which he had devoted himself. He was one of the 

 first to devise the means by which distant earthquakes could be 

 recorded, and before he left Japan had constructed an instrument 

 for this purpose, which he afterwards brought home and started to 

 work at Shide. His suggestion that important earthquakes could be 

 recorded in all habitable parts of the globe if suitable instruments 



