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THE National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences at Washington is issuing a series of bulletins on the physics of the earth, to give scientific workers who are not specialists in the subjects treated an idea of the position and problems of various branches of geophysics. Among the bulletins in this series which have already been issued are those on volcanology, the figure of the earth, meteorology, the age of the earth and oceanography. Recently, Bulletin No. 90 on seismology has appeared. It has been prepared by a Committee of which Prof. J. B. Macelwane is chairman. Within 219 pages it includes twenty chapters, and gives a very valuable and interesting general view of the subject. Chapters by the chairman include-the definition and classification of earthquakes, tectonic earthquakes, plutonic earthquakes, rock fall earthquakes, body waves, reflection and refraction of seismic waves, surface waves and paths and velocities of seismic waves within the earth; H. O. Woods contributes articles on volcanic earthquakes, field investigation and surface geology in relation to the ‘apparent’ intensity; articles by H. F. Reid deal with magnetic effects, earthquake mechanics and with the focus. The principle of the seismograph is described by J. A. Anderson, and P. Byerly contributes five articles on analysis of seismograms in earthquakes, records at intermediate and great distances, time distance curves, reduction of trace amplitude, and seismic geography. The Bulletin has numerous bibliographies and is priced at 2 dollar.
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Review of Seismology. Nature 135, 263 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135263d0
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