'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎288] (465/524)

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Art. XIX .—Notes on the Earthquake of the '29th April 1864 in the
North-western part of the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. — By D. J.
Kennelly, Esq., Corresponding F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., Honorary
Secretary to the Bombay Geographical Society.
[Read by the Author before the Society, October 20th, 1864.]
The infant state of the science of Seismology, derived from the
observation of the facts of Earthquakes, will be deemed by the Society
a sufficient apology for placing before them, in connection with the
remarks I have to offer on the Earthquake of April last, a few prefatory
observations on the science itself, which, during the last twelve years,
has been greatly matured, chiefly by the philosophical investigations of
Mr. R. Mallet, Mr. David Milne, and of M. Perrey, of Dijon.
The Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of
Science for the years 1850, 1851, 1854, and 1858, and Yol. XXII.
Transactions of the R. I. Academy, contain papers from Mr. R.
Mallet and from his son Dr. J. W. Mallet, incorporating almost every
thing that is known relative to earthquakes, including the results of
the series of very able papers on British Earthquakes in the Edinburgh
Philosophical Journal, Yols. XXXI.—XXXYI. from Mr. David
Milne, as well as those obtained from Lieutenant Baird Smith’s extensive
contribution of 162 Indian Earthquakes, contained in the XXIL Vo-
lume of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Mr. Mallet, in his able report on Earthquakes, contained in the Report
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1858, states,
“The whole base of induction for such conclusions as are here arrived
at, embracing between 6,000 and 7,000 separate recorded earthquakes
over every known part of the globe, both on land and ocean, the
character of the facts given, their scantiness as to information ot
scientific value, the methods, or rather the want of all method in
their observation, and other causes mentioned in the second report, I
think justify me in stating my conviction, that nearly all that can be
drawn from the collection and discussion of such records has now
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