Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Jaggar sailed on May 13, 1902, on the U. S. S. "Dixie" for St. Pierre, Martinique. After examining Mt. Pelee for two days, he went to St. Vincent, where for three weeks he studied the devastation caused by the volcano Soufriere. He then returned to Mantinque, where he stayed for two weeks and a half, witnessing three eruptions including a great one of Mt. Pelee on July 9. Dr. Jaggar brought back with him a good collection of photographs of the destruction which...
...also the usual sprinkling of illustrated definitions and nonsense rhymes. We are used to expect, however, a better centre page than appears in this issue. The drawing is so roughly and carelessly done that any humor which may have been originally in the idea is lost. "Hypnotizing a Volcano," is particularly amusing to those who have taken Geology...