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Title: Volcanoes: Past and Present

Author: Edward Hull

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The Contemporary Science Series.

Edited by Havelock Ellis.

VOLCANOES: PAST AND PRESENT.

[Illustration: Fig. 1.--Eruption of Vesuvius, 1872-1873]

VOLCANOES: PAST AND PRESENT.

by

EDWARD HULL, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.
Examiner in Geology to the University of London.

With 41 Illustrations and 4 Plates of Rock-Sections.

London:
Walter Scott, Limited,
24, Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.
1892.

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PREFACE.