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THIS bibliography, by E. A. Hodgson, published by the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, for the period October–December 1938 has just been received. It contains 120 items from fourteen collaborators residing in eight countries, and it is noticeable that the United States and Holland are well represented and that Spain has a collaborator. Italy, the Balkan States, the U.S.S.R. and South America are this time not represented although it is known that seismological work is being done in all these places. Ono of the more recently studied branches of the subject is well illustrated by a paper by A. Belluigi (“Seismisch-electrische Wirkungen und neu mögliche seismische Anwendungen”, Bei. Angew. Geoph., 7, Heft 3, 260–264, bib., Leipzig, 1938). It concerns the new seismic-electric effect pointed out by American authors, and the author suggests that its probable cause consists in electrochemical alterations produced by elastic waves as Thyssen, Hummel and Rülke have demonstrated. It is further suggested that new electro-elastic seismometers be planned, as these should afford advantages over the present seismometers in exactness of reproduction of impulses, owing to the absence of inertia masses, and they should measure at the same time the electrical resistivity. Following the bibliography is a very valuable double index for the whole year, arranged first by subjects and then by names.
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Bibliography of Seismology. Nature 144, 189 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144189c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144189c0