From the February 8, 1930, issue

VOLCANO WATCHERS BRAVE DRAGONS’ BREATH

Regularly established and equipped volcano observatories are relatively few, for the business of watching volcanoes, unlike the related business of watching the weather, is a comparatively new science and has yet not developed a large trained personnel. The United States has only one volcano station, in spite of the fact that this nation owns more active volcanoes than any other–mostly in Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands.