Proceedings of the Fourth International congress of actuaries held in New York, under the auspices of the Actuarial society of America, August 31 to September 5, 1903 ...

Papers and dicussion in English, French or German; the original paper being accompanied by abstract or translation in the other two languages. The German and French contributions to the discussion have an English translation in parallel columns.

Proceedings of the Casualty Actuarial and Statistical Society of America.

List of members for the years 1914-20 are included in v. 1-7, after which they are continued in the year book of the Society, begun in 1922.

Publications of the Germanistic Society of America.

No. 1, 4 originally published 1908, 1910 respectively, are reprints, 1914.

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America.

Title from caption.

The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America.

Edition limited: v. 1, pt. 1, v. 2-5, 300 copies printed; v. 6-7, no. 1-2, 500 copies; v. 7, no. 3-4-v. 9, 400 copies.

Annals of the Entomological Society of America.

Place of publication varies: <1975- >, College Park, Md.; <1991>- , Lanham, MD.

Bulletin - Mining and Metallurgical Society of America

1911 called v. 4 to correspond with the 4th year of the society; previous publications were bound in 2 vols. to which no special numbers were given. The first comprised Bulletins 1-18, 1908-1909, and the 2d Bulletins 19-31, 1910.

Index to the publications of the Bibliographical Society of American and of the Bibliographical Society of Chicago, 1899-1931.

Mode of access: Internet.

Year-book of the Bibliographical Society of Chicago

Mode of access: Internet.

The 1531 Lisbon Earthquake: A Tsunami In the Tagus Estuary?

On 26 January 1531, a strong-magnitude earthquake heavily impacted Lisbon downtown. Immediately after the earthquake, the eyewitnesses reported large waves in the Tagus estuary, mainly north of the city and along the northern bank of the river. Descriptions include large impacts on ships anchored in the estuary and even morphological changes in the riverbed. We present a synthesis of the available information concerning both the earthquake and the water disturbance as a basis for the discussion of the probable tectonic source and the magnitude of the associated river oscillations. We hypothesize that the initial disturbance of the water can be attributed to the coseismic deformation of the estuary riverbed, and we use a nonlinear shallow water model to simulate the tsunami propagation and inundation. We show that the Vila Franca de Xira fault is the most probable source of the 1531 event. The largest inundation effects of the model correlate well with the historical descriptions: the impact is relevant in the inner Tagus estuary, but inundation in downtown Lisbon is small.

Educating for earthquake science and risk in a tectonically slowly deforming region

Over the past decade, scientists have been called to participate more actively in public education and outreach (E&O). This is particularly true in fields of significant societal impact, such as earthquake science. Local earthquake risk culture plays a role in the way that the public engages in educational efforts. In this article, we describe an adapted E&O program for earthquake science and risk. The program is tailored for a region of slow tectonic deformation, where large earthquakes are extreme events that occur with long return periods. The adapted program has two main goals: (1) to increase the awareness and preparedness of the population to earthquake and related risks (tsunami, liquefaction, fires, etc.), and (2) to increase the quality of earthquake science education, so as to attract talented students to geosciences. Our integrated program relies on activities tuned for different population groups who have different interests and abilities, namely young children, teenagers, young adults, and professionals.

Annual report

Mode of access: Internet.

Flora boreali-americana, or, the botany of the northern parts of British America : compiled principally from the plants collected by Dr. Richardson & Mr. Drummond on the late northern expeditions, under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. To which are added (by permission of the Horticultural society of London,) those of Mr. Douglas, from north-west America, and of other naturalists /

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Flora boreali-americana, or, the botany of the northern parts of British America : compiled principally from the plants collected by Dr. Richardson & Mr. Drummond on the late northern expeditions, under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. To which are added (by permission of the Horticultural society of London,) those of Mr. Douglas, from north-west America, and of other naturalists /

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A holy, sacred, and divine roll and book from the Lord God of Heaven, to the inhabitants of earth : revealed in the United Society at New Lebanon, County of Columbia, State of New-York, United States of America : read and understand all ye in mortal clay : in two parts /

Part I: vii, 222, [4] p.; part II: [4], 223-402, [4] p.