To G. H. Darwin 21 [February 1880]
From Mr. C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham
See ‘Nature’ p. 382 about the microphone & earthquakes & tremblings in Japan.—1
C. D.
21st—
Footnotes
Nature, 19 February 1880, pp. 382–3, reported on a method for detecting seismic trembling in Japan through the use of microphones buried in pits; the method was described by its inventor, John Milne, a professor of mining and geology at the Imperial College of Engineering, Tokyo.
Summary
Nature [21 (1880): 382] has an item about tremors and earth movements in Japan.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12496
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Howard Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- FE ⟨ ⟩ 80
- Source of text
- DAR 210.1: 91
- Physical description
- ApcS
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12496,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12496.xml
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