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SCIENCE. 



[Vol. V., No. 109. 



Dec. 27. Antequera (five shocks), Archidona 

 (nine shocks), Malaga. 

 .28, 29. Torrox, Malaga. 



30. Velez Malaga, Torrox (7 and 10 



a.m.), provinces of Granada and 

 Malaga. 



31. Torrox, Granada, Jaen (6.35 p.m.), 



Malaga. 



A RUINED STREET IN ALHAMA. (From COSMOS.) 



Jan. 1, Torrox, Granada (11.45 p.m.), 

 Malaga, Nerja (2, 6.45, 9 p.m.), 

 Algarrobo, Alhama, Antequera, 

 Valencia. 



2. Valencia, Granada, Malaga, Velez 



Malaga. 



3. Loja, Alhama, Jaen, Velez Malaga. 

 5. Granada (6 p.m., severe), Loja, Mo- 



tril (fifty houses destroyed), 

 Malaga. 

 Jan. 7. Nerja, Velez Malaga. 



8. Loja, Torrox. 



9. Torrox. 



10. Malaga. 



11. Malaga (buildings fell). 



12. Gibraltar, Alhama, Al- 



garrobo. 



13. Torrox, Canillas, Al- 



munecar, Algarrobo. 

 16. Granada (10 p.m.), Ca- 

 nillas, Motril. 



21. Malaga, Loja, Velez 



Malaga, Almunecar. 



22. Periana. 

 27. Alhama (one person 



killed) . 

 Feb. 12. Alhama. 



13. Torre del Campo, forty 



miles north of Grana- 

 da (serious damage to 

 hospital) . 



14. Granada, Velez Malaga. 



23. Granada (renewed shocks reported). 

 March 2. Granada, Loja, Alhama (houses fell) . 



The severe shock on Christmas night seems 



been reported as felt at 10.20 p.m. in Wilts, 

 and also having been recorded by small dis- 

 turbances of the magnets in the Greenwich 

 observatory at 9.15 p.m. ; the suspended mag- 

 nets acting as pendulum seismographs. 



While they may probably have no connec- 

 tion with the Spanish earthquake, the follow- 

 ing shocks, felt in other parts of Europe during 

 the same period, are worth not- 

 ing ; viz.,— 



Dec. 25. At Zernetz, Engadine 

 (at 8.17 and 11 p.M. r 

 the former hour cor- 

 responding to 7.32 

 p.m., Madrid time). 

 27, 28. At Tarvis in Carin- 

 thia. 



28. 7 a.m. at Sundal and 

 Oxendal, Norwa}'. 



29. In Wales. 

 Jan. 4. In Styria. 



5. 3 a.m. at Chambery, 

 Savo} r ; 5.50 a.m. at Embrun. 

 Jan. 6. In Italy at Susa, near Mont Cenis, 

 and at Velletri. 

 21. Between and 1 a.m. at Ennenda, 

 Glarus. 

 As bearing upon the possible connection 

 between seismic and atmospheric phenomena, 

 it is remarked that an unusually high barometer 

 prevailed over the Spanish peninsula during 



the first half of December ; while from Dec. 20 



to have been perceived in England. 



having 



ruins or a convent, albunuelas. (From La Nature.) 



to 22 a heavy storm area, attended by an un- 

 usual atmospheric depression, was passing from 1 

 north to south over the same region, reaching 

 the Mediterranean on the 22d ; also that at 

 Nerja a hurricane followed the first shocks, 



