0. G. Rockwood, Jr.—Japanese Seismology. 469 
In directing attention to those who have labored in this field, 
we have to mention the names of E. Naumann, John Per rry 
and W. K. Ayrton, I. Z. Hattori, W. S. Chaplin, E. Knipping, 
J. A. Ewing, G. Wagner, T. Gray and John Man all of whom 
have added to the available stores of information, by the exam- 
ination of native records, or by the invention and improvement 
of digit bg ove appliances. 
e literature of Japan are found numerous accounts of 
ee enrthiqoakes ere acre back even to 295 B. C., at which 
me it is recorde ujiyama was upheaved.” These native 
seeerk have been examined by Dr. Naumann,* Mr. Hattori,+ 
Mr. Knipping,t and Pisfeasd Milne,$ and have furnished 
abundant material for discussion. Indeed the amount of J ae 
nese Seismological literature is unexpectedly large. Dr. 
mann mentions the titles of thirty-three and Hattori o shitty: 
four native books consulted in preparing their papers, while 
Milne is acquainted with sixty-five native earthquake books 
besides seven earthquake calendars. A part of this earthquake 
literature, especially the calendars, has a scientific value, but on 
the other hand much of it is made up of a series of anecdotes 
often of a trivial character. For illustration of these, a single 
one, selected from an account| of the great shock of 1707, will 
c 
* ais AN IMPETUOUS MAN FELL DOWN FROM UP-STAIRS.”’ 
a tea house in Horiye. In the mies of their hain ti were 
and fell down from the ladder into a eae mono-oke (a cask con- 
taining radishes pickled in salt and bran which is very offensive 
to the nose), The others who were yet up-stairs intended to 
come down. But the man in the cask looking up said that below 
all was chaos and it would be better to remain coon bie 
use 
nad ot eo that it was by accident that he had fallen into 
the ca: 
The earthquakes contained in Naumann’s and Hattori’s lists 
have been discussed by their authors and by Ayrton, with 
* Ueber Erdbeben und Vuleanausbriiche in Japan. rag der deutschen 
Gesellschaft fiir N i r- und Volkerkunde Ostasiens. 
anes oe ve Earthquakes in Japan. Transactions ae aphts Society of Japan, 
vol. v 
$ Verwaielshin von Erdbeben, wahrgenommen in Tokio, von Sept. 1872 bis 
he 1877. Mittheilungen der deutschen Gesellschaft, ete. Ostasiens. l4tes 
S deped Gazette, June, Hele 
Milne in Japan Gazette : 
{ Note on the Perodiiy of ‘Kacthanatou! in Japan. Transac. Asiatic Soc. of 
Japan, vol. vi, p. 3 
