PRE EA ORW NOM Ee 
ONLY a week after this book had been handed to the pub- 
lisher, the scientific world had to mourn the loss of Dr. John 
Milne, who entered into Rest on 31 July, 1913. 
It was my melancholy privilege on 5 August to pay a last 
tribute to one who had proved a very kind friend. 
The assembling of a large congregation in St. Thomas’s 
Church, Newport, Isle of Wight, was an eloquent testimony to 
the love and esteem with which Milne was regarded by those 
among whom his daily life was spent. 
No one will deny that Milne was truly the father of 
modern Seismology. He founded the subject, he developed 
it well-nigh single-handed, and he lived to see the importance 
of his life work recognised not only by his fellow-countrymen 
but by the whole civilized world. 
The credit for several important points in modern Seis- 
mology is sometimes assigned to others, and it was only 
Milne’s greatness of heart that prevented him from claiming 
the priority that was rightly his. ; 
But his claim to scientific fame rests not on details, for he 
made the whole subject. As Prince Galitzin remarked at 
Cambridge only a year ago, “There are not many questions 
of modern Seismology that have not been attacked by Milne 
long before any other person had thought about them”. 
G. W. W. 
