Scientific Aspects of the Java Catastrophe

Abstract

YOUR excellent leading article on this great event omits to call attention to a factor which I have long maintained to be of the greatest interest and importance from the point of view of meteorology and geology in general. I allude to the quantity of gases or vapour emitted during the eruptions. This must bear a direct relation to the quantity of matter emitted (whatever its form) and also to the height and distance to which the matter may be ejected or carried.