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TAYL/A/37
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Miscellaneous material on volcanic explosions.
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- 1964 (Creation)
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Taylor's interest in long gravity waves was aroused by a visit to Krakatau during the 1929 Congress (see Batchelor, Memoir, p.585).
Folder includes ms. translation of Pliny's letters on the eruption of Vesuvius, made for Taylor by the Archbishop of New Zealand, 1947, and brief correspondence re film of Tristan da Cunha eruption