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THE study of earthquakes in New Zealand and Australia has suffered a serious loss through the death of MR. GEORGE HOGBEN on April 20 last. For many years Mr. Hogben, acted as secretary of the seismological committee of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, and we are indebted to him for reports of this committee, and for many studies of individual earthquakes published in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute and other journals. It was owing to his efforts that the Milne seismograph was erected at Wellington, N.Z., and that, shortly before his death, an order was given for the improved Milne-Shaw seismograph. In addition to his contributions to our knowledge of earthquakes, Mr. Hogben was interested in education generally, and was for two years president of the Wellington Philosophical Society. According to a notice issued with the Hector Observatory Bulletin (No. 28, 1920), he also issued a valuable report on proportional representation, and at the time of his death had an improved set of mathematical tables in the press.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 154–155 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106154a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106154a0