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IN 1944 the Institute of Geophysical Technology was established at St. Louis, U.S.A., in cooperation with the University, and Father Macelwane was chosen as its dean. For one so well versed in the basic subjects of geology, physics and mathematics, this was a well-merited honour ; and in so short a time as 1944–47 dividends have been paid. “By their fruits ye shall know them” has been well borne out, for out of the St. Louis Institute of Geophysical Technology, based on work by J. J. Shaw in England, has come the new use of the seismograph as a meteorological instrument via the study of micro-seisms by Father Ramirez. Father Macelwane and his colleagues at St. Louis are about to take this work a step further by setting up sensitive micro-barographs at the angular points of a triangle of several hundred feet side in order to trace the paths of microbarographic storms, and for this work the weather-minded U.S. Navy has assisted with a grant of 25,000 dollars.
When the Earth Quakes
By the Rev. James B. Macelwane. (Science and Culture Series.) Pp. xiii + 288. (Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co., 1947.) 5 dollars.
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TILLOTSON, E. When the Earth Quakes. Nature 161, 459 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161459a0
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