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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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