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THE veteran geologist of the United States has rendered an inestimable service to science by the publication of this splendid monograph, which has just made its appearance simultaneously in this country and in the United States. To find any work on a similar subject comparable with it either in importance, or in the influence it is likely to exert upon geological thought, we must go back to the publication of Fouqué's “Santorin,” of Von Waltershausen's “Etna,” or Scrope's “Volcanoes of Central France.”
Characteristics of Volcanoes, with Contributions of Facts and Principles from the Hawaiian Islands: including a Historical Review of Hawaiian Volcanic Action for the past Sixty-seven Years, a Discussion of the Relations of Volcanic Islands to Deep-sea Topography, and a Chapter on Volcainc-Island Denudation.
By James D. Dana. Illustrated by Maps of the Islands; a Bathymetric Map of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; and Views of Cones, Craters, a Lava-Cascade, a Lava-Fountain, &c. (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1890.)
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J., J. The Volcanoes of Hawaii. Nature 42, 266–267 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042266a0
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