University of California, Berkeley, 89, 137, 163 University of Hawaii, 101, 162, 164, 168, 170, 171 University of New Zealand, 110 Uranus, 184 Usu Volcano, 106 Utah, 18, 22, 67 Uwekahuna, 173 V Valparaiso earthquake, 55 Vandyke, E. C., 72, 73 Vaughan, T. W., 112 Verhoogen, J., 180 Vermont, 7, 9, 53 Vesuvius, xi, 55, 65–72, 76, 88, 104, 115, 131, 167 -- eruptions, 65–72 -- expedition to, 65–72, 84 -- observatory, 76 Vesuvius-Stromboli-Etna system, 70 Virgin Islands, 157 volcanic explosions, 32, 45, 55–84, 120–125, 130–131, 173–176 Volcano Bay, 139–140 Volcano House, 77, 86, 111, 113, 155, 173 Volcano Letter, 154 volcano models, 45–47 Volcano Research Association, 85, 162, 163 volcanology predictions, 161–162 von Buch, Leopold, 131 von Tempski, Armine, 146 von Zittel, Karl A., 13 Vosges Mountains, 14 W Wada, T., 107 Waesche, Hugh, 152, 154 Wailuku River, 153, 156 Waimanu, Hawaii, 165 Waimea, Hawaii, 143 Waiohinu, 165 Waipio, 165 Wairaki, 161 Walcott, Charles D., 19, 22, 30, 111, 112 Wall Street, 72 Wallibu River, 60 Ward, R., 19 Washington, D. C., 76, 86, 111, 137, 161, 162 -- Geophysical Laboratory, 76 Washington, H. S., 112 Watchung Ridge, 43 water theory, 115–117, 167 Weed, W. H., 11 Wellesley, 72 Wellington, N. Z., 109, 110 Wells Fargo and Co., 27 Wentworth, Chester K., 173 Werner, A. G., 16 West Indies, 11, 56–66, 78, 83–84, 156–161 -- disaster in, 55–65 -- volcanoes of, 156–161 Western Samoa, 147 Wheeler, G. M., 7 Whippoorwill (ship), 135–136 White, Harvey, 173 White Island, 75, 110 Whitney Foundation, 85, 89 Wiechert, E., 116 Williams, Howel, 137, 164 Williamson, H., 82–83 Willis, Bailey, xi, 21, 22, 50–51, 116 Wilson, R. M., 111, 129, 130, 137, 144, 154 Wingate, E. G., 145, 152, 155–156 Wolff, John Eliot, 5, 19 Wood, H. O., 89, 100, 111, 115 Wood-Anderson seismograph, 111 Wood-Jones, Frederick, 112 Wood Valley, 145, 165 World War I, 132 World War II, 141, 142, 168 Wylie, ...., 11 Wyoming, 43 Y Yakutat earthquake (1899), 30–31, 37, 45 Yale University, 17, 19, 22, 91, 100 Yatchmenoff, Peter, 139–140 Yeld, G., 65 yellow fever, 82 Yellowstone Lake, 36 Yellowstone National Park, xii, 7–12, 18, 23, 28, 36, 39, 42, 67, 78, 112, 117 Yellowstone River, 36 Yokohama, 132–134 Young, John Mason, 114 Yukon, 140 Z Zeitschrift für Vulkanologie, 76 Zirkel, Ferdinand, 14 Zurich, 12 Transcriber’s Notes: 1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.