While a student‎,‎ George Poulett Scrope ‎(‎1797‎-1876‎)‎ visited Vesuvius and Etna and developed a passionate enthusiasm for volcanos‎.‎ He did pioneering fieldwork in France in 1821‎,‎ witnessed the eruption of Vesuvius in 1822‎,‎ and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1826‎.‎ Scrope became increasingly involved in economics and politics‎,‎ but later in his career published revised versions of two pioneering books on volcanism he had originally published in the 1820s‎.‎ Volcanos ‎(‎1862‎)‎‎,‎ reissued here‎,‎ was based on his Considerations on Volcanos ‎(‎1825‎,‎ also reissued in this series‎)‎ and dedicated to his life‎-long friend and colleague Charles Lyell‎.‎ This influential work on volcanic phenomena includes a substantial catalogue of ‎'‎all known volcanos and volcanic formations‎'‎ as well as a dramatic illustration of Vesuvius‎.‎ It was translated into French and German‎,‎ went into a second English edition in 1872‎,‎ and was one of the foundational texts of volcanology‎.‎