Abstract
THE DISTRIBUTION OF CALAMITIES.—Four months ago attention was directed in these columns (vol. 113, p. 653) to a proposal to study the distribution of calamities such as earthquakes, epidemics, floods, etc., under the auspices of the International Red Cross Committee and of the League of Red Cross Societies. A chief feature of this proposal was the issue of a quarterly review, Materiaux pour? etude des calarnites, to be edited by M. Raoul Montandon. We have now received the first number of this journal containing articles by the editor on the geography of calamities, and by M. Louis de Launay on earthquakes and volcanoes, as well as notices of memoirs bearing on the subject. The main object of the movement is the relief of suffering among populations affected by great calamities, and the editor urges that a useful preliminary step in the organisation of relief would be the publication of an atlas of the world showing clearly the site and extent of all catastrophes.
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