6 MIDDLEMISS: KANGRA EARTHQUAKE. 



personally engaged in survey work myself there and elsewhere during 

 much of the time. 



As most of the material for this memoir had to be collected rapidly 



Co-operation of i n the central areas of devastation and at a time of 

 other departments. g rea t public stress ; whilst all the rest of the 

 material (as represented by the earthquake-forms) had to be. arranged 

 for through the various local Governments and Native States ; it must 

 be apparent that this department was greatly dependent on the co-oper- 

 ation of many other departments and individual officers therein, as 

 well as on that of a variety of private individuals who were public- 

 spirited enough to assist. All the important newspapers of India also 

 assisted by publishing a series of questions similar to those given at p. 3. 

 It would be impossible to name all these, and I must therefore be 



Tlnnks content to thank in a body all members of the 



various civil departments under Government, offi- 

 cials of Native iStates, the officers of the Gurkha regiments at Dharm- 

 sala and other regiments quartered in the less seriously affected part 

 of the area, all editors of newspapers and many private persons for 

 their generous assistance to me in carrying out the field work or in 

 otherwise gathering data for this book.i 



