
774 The American Naturalist. [August, 1891.] 
seven whites and twenty colored persons ; of deaths attributed to cold 
and exposure, eighty-seven. The number of wounded was never ascer- 
tained. Low wooden houses appear to be the best suited and safest 
habitations in earthquake regions. The shocks were felt as far north 
as Toronto in Canada, south as the island of Cuba, east as Boston, and 
nearly a thousand miles off in a southwesterly direction in the upper 
Mississippi region. ‘The volume is illustrated with views of the ruins 
of Charleston and Summerville, of the fissures on the banks of the 
Ashley River near the phosphate works, the craterlets of Summerville, 
and many plans, maps, and diagrams, In fact, the Charleston earth- 
quake was the best observed and most photographed ‘shake ’’ on 
record. The shocks traveled at the rate of three miles per second.— 
AGNES CRANE. 
The summer meeting of the American Geological Society is to be 
held Monday and Tuesday, August 24th and asth, in the Columbian 
University, Washington, D. C., and will doubtless be one of unusual 
interest. The meeting will be preceded August roth to 22d by the 
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 
and will be followed by the International Geological Congress, which 
meets August 26th, and remains in session one week. The three 
societies wilt meet in the same building. The foreign members of the 
International Geological Congress are to be invited to read papers ` 
before the Geological Society, and their papers will be given pre- 
cedence on the program. A number of excursions will probably 
_be arranged. The local arrangements are in the hands of a com- 
mittee, Mr. G. K. Gilbert, chairman. 
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