Mr. Forbes on Mr. Mallet's Theory of Volcanic Eruption

Abstract

I Do not intend to depart from my purpose, as Stated in my last (NATURE, vol. viii. p. 485), to have done with further Controversy. I must, however, beg your permission to correct a statement as to a matter of fact which constitutes the prominent feature of Mr. D. Forbes' letter on the above, and which is published in the last number of NATURE.