Author: Shida, Toshi
Title: On the Elasticity of the Earth & the Earth's Crust
Description: Kyoto, Kyoto Imperial University, 1912. quarter-cloth. 23x15cm, (2),339,(35)pp, A 2cm tear to rear exterior hinge.. 29 folding maps & diagrams. Binder's quarter-cloth,some rubbing,foxing,page-edge stains,Good ¶ This is titled and stamped on spine "Memoirs of the College of Science & Engineering, Kyoto Imperial University. Vol. IV, 1912" and consists as issued of Shida's work,pp 1- 286 + 6 photoplates & 29 maps,charts & diagrams (mostly folding) + 2 other papers by Shinzo Shinjo, pp 287 - 339. Contains: Toshi Shida " On the Elasticity of the Earth & the Earth's Crust ; Introduction; I: Horizontal Pendulum Observations of the Change of Plumb Line at Kamigamo, Kyoto; II: Note on the Atmospheric Tide"; Toshi Shida & Motonori Matsuyama "III: Note on Hecker's Observations of Horizontal Pendulums"; Toshi Shida "IV: On Paths & Transit Times of the Preliminary Tremors of Near Earthquakes appended with: A Dynamite Explosion at Kobe. Note on the Local Earthquake of Feb. 18,1911; V: An Attempt to find the Chandler Period of Free Nutation from the Time Distribution of Earthquake Occurences & Volcanic Eruptions" ; Toshi Shida & Motonori Matsuyama "VI : Change of Plumb Line referred to the Axis of the Earth as found from the Result of the International Latitude Observations; Concluding Remark: Proposal for the International Geodetic Association"; Shinzo Shinjo "Ueber die physikalische Bedeutung des z-Gliedes in der Polhohenschwankung; Ueber die periodische Refraktionsanomalie und die Bestimmung der Aberrationskonstante",

Keywords: Geophysics, Earth's Crust, Geodesy, Seismology, Earthquakes, Tides, Geology, ,