THE WONDER BOOK OF
VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES

Mount Vesuvius in Eruption

THE
WONDER BOOK
OF
VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES

BY
Professor EDWIN J. HOUSTON, Ph.D.


NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
Publishers

Copyright, 1907, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company

All rights reserved

October, 1907

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We take this opportunity of acknowledging the courtesyof the following publishers, who have helped us in connectionwith the illustrations of this book:—

Henry Holt and Company ("Physiography," byRollin D. Salisbury).

D. Appleton and Company (Figs. 13, 35, 39, 40, 41,42, 43, 44, 45 and 46, "Volcanoes: What They Are andWhat They Teach," by J. W. Judd; Fig. 15, "Principlesof Geology," by Sir C. Lyell).

The American Book Company ("Manual of Geology,"by James Dwight Dana).

G. P. Putnam's Sons ("Earthquakes in the Light ofthe New Seismology," by C. E. Dutton).

The Clarendon Press ("Geology: Chemical, Physical,and Stratigraphical," by Joseph Prestwich).

The Publishers.

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