1878.] Library. 145 



He would venture to point out how much more prevalent such shocks were 

 in the neighbourhood of the great river plains than elsewhere. Assam, the 

 Himalayas, Sind and Cutch were far more subject to earthquakes than the 

 peninsula, that is to say, the countries which had at a geologically recent 

 date undergone great disturbance were far more affected than those which 

 had remained comparatively undisturbed. He suggested that the elevation 

 of the Himalayas, of the Suleman and other ranges west of the Indus, and 

 of the mountains of Assam might perhaps still be in progress from com- 

 pression, whilst the disturbing cause might be the constantly increasing 

 pressure of the great areas of deposition in the deltas of the Ganges, Brah- 

 maputra and Indus, and the subsidence due to such pressure. A similar 

 effect was being produced in the valley of the Irrawady, another earthquake 

 centre. 



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The following additions have been made to the Library since the Meet- 

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Transactions, Proceedings and Journals, 

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Berlin. Die Konigliche Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, — Mo- 

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Bombay. The Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, — Journal, 

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W. F. Sinclair. — Hindu and Jaina remains in Bijapur and the neighbourhood. 

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