An Earthquake Invention

Abstract

REFERRING to Prof. Milne's letter in NATURE of March 11 (p. 438), I have to say:—(1) That what I, as representing my father, have to complain of is that in a British Association Committee's Report describing experiments made with an aseismatic arrangement, and which appeared in the Transactions of the British Association of 1884, the writer thereof, who appears to have been Prof. Milne alone, did not acknowledge that Mr. David Stevenson had invented, described, and constructed precisely such apparatus in 1868, facts which Prof. Milne cannot deny, and yet took the honour to himself; and, when this was pointed out, he then set up a claim for Mr. Mallet which Mr. Mallet assuredly never made, and would have been the first to repudiate.