Volcanoes: what they are, and what they Teach

Abstract

ONE of the fathers of vulcanology in this country was the late Mr. Poulett Scrope, in whose well-known treatise on Volcanoes, the subject of their cause and effect was for the first time discussed from a thoroughly philosophical standpoint. A great traveller and investigator himself, he strove to imbue younger geologists with his spirit, and when he became too-old and infirm to undertake travel and research in distant countries, he directed some chosen disciples to prosecute his favourite lines of thought. Prof. Judd was one of these, and upon him has assuredly fallen the mantle, and a portion of the spirit of his master. His able papers on the study of volcanoes, contributed to the Geological Magazine, are well known to every vulcanologist. He has travelled much; he makes good use of both pen and pencil, and he is an accurate observer. We are glad that he has condensed his reading and research into a work, which becomes so widely distributed, both at home and abroad, as the volumes of the International Scientific Series invariably do.

Volcanoes: what they are, and what they Teach.

By John W. Judd, Professor of Geology in the Royal School of Mines. (London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1881.)