Citation | Associate and Hon Fellow of King's Coll, Lond. Royal Exhibitioner at Royal School of Mines, Lond. Professor of Mining and Geology in the Imperial College of Engineering, Department of Public Works, Japan. Studied in Freiberg; travalled in Iceland; engaged, in 1873-1874, in mining in Newfoundland; accompanied Dr Beke as Geologist to North-West Arabia; travelled across Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, and China to Japan; visited the Kurile Islands, the Corean frontier, California, &c. Author of 'Travelling Notes' (Geol Mag, 1877, pp 237, 289, 389, 459, 511, 557; 1878, pp 29, 62); 'The Volcano of Oshima' (op cit, 1877, p 193); 'On the Form of Volcanoes' (op cit, 1878, p 337, pl IX; and 1879, p 506); 'The Volcanoes of the Kurile Islands' (op cit, 1879, p 337, pl IX); 'On the Cooling of the Earth' (op cit, 1880, p 99); 'Physical Features and Mineralogy of Newfoundland' (Quart Journ Geol Soc, 1874, vol xxx, p 722); 'Geological Notes on the Sinaitic Peninsula and N-W Arabia' (ibid, vol xxxi, pp 1-28); 'Seismic Science in Japan' (Trans Seismol Soc, Yedo, vol i, pp 1-34); 'The Earthquake of February 22, 1880' (op cit, vol i, part ii, pp 1-116); 'The Earthquakes of Yedo Plain' (ibid, vol ii, pp 1-38); 'The Peruvian Earthquake of May 9, 1877' (ibid, vol ii, pp 51-96); 'Experiments in Seismology' (ibid, vol iii, pp 12-64); 'Notes on the Great Earthquakes of Japan' (ibid, vol iii, pp 65-102); 'The Earthquake of March 8, 1881' (ibid, pp 127-136); 'Distribution of Seismic Activity in Japan' (vol iv, pp 1-30); 'The Systematic Observations of Earthquakes (ibid, vol iv, pp 87-117; joint Papers with Mr T Gray, BSc, FRSE); 'On Seismic Experiments' (Phil Trans, 1882, and Proc Roy Soc, 1881); 'Earthquake Observations in Japan' (Phil Mag, Nov, 1881); 'Elasticity and Strength, Constants of Certain Rocks' (1882); 'Reports on Investigation of the Earthquake Phenomena of Japan' (Brit Assoc Rep, 1881 and 1882). Entrusted with three Grants from British Association for investigation of Earthquake Phenomena. Author of numerous other Papers on Geology, Mineralogy, Mining, &c. Has specially devoted himself to the study of Earth-movements. |