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Show ... i qniake date ("terrestrial maximum of gravitational , stress') actually platted In advance by Mr. Ferret on, bis diagrams dia-grams for. 1908. Ho is a man whoso .whole time Is unselfishly devoted to thesoiBtudlea, but he has no observatory observa-tory and no adequate means of support.. sup-port.. A few touslness men In Springfield, Spring-field, Mass, last year came valiantly to his aid, and now their foresight Is worthy of all honor." PREDICTING UPHEAVALS. It Is generally acknowledged that a science attains Us highest stage when it enables us to foretell what Is going to happen. Judged by this standard, meteorology is much further advanced than geology, says the Literary Digest. Di-gest. The weather may now be foretold fore-told with some accuracy, yet almost no effort Is made to forecast the movements move-ments of the earth's crust, on which so many thousands of lives often depend. We have an elaborate science of geology, geol-ogy, but It confines Itself almost entirely en-tirely to the records of the past There are rare cases where It has entered the predictive stage, but these are so Infrequent as merely to stand out as exceptions. Thus wo aro told by Prof. T. A. Jaggar. Jr.t of the Massachusetts Massachu-setts Institute of Technology, that the recent Sicilian disaster vas foretold by an Amerlcal volcanologlst, Frank Al-vord Al-vord Perret, who has predicted disaster disas-ter on Mount Etna for two years past. Professor Jaggar writes In the Evening Post (New York, January 2): "Mr. Perret, who was decorated by the Crown of Italy for his splendid service to science and to humanity on Vesuvius In 1906, wrote in The World's Work of November, 1907: 'By the rational ra-tional methods of scientific research, we know that a great eruption of ML Etna Is Impending, the only uncertainty uncertain-ty at present being whlch side of tho mountain will break open.' Great volcanic vol-canic eruptions are preceded by great earthquakes, and the Messina disaster of December 28 comes on an earth- |