A symposium on the prediction of volcanic eruptions was held on December 7, 1977 at the Science Council of Japan under the joint sponsorship of the Subcommittee on Prediction of Volcanic Eruption, National Committee on Geophysics and the Volcanological Society of Japan. Ten invited papers on various aspects of prediction of volcanic eruptions were presented in this symposium and are printed here in this Bulletin through the collaboration of the Editorial Board of the Volcanological Society. It is expected that these papers will provide valuable data for the study on the prediction of volcanic eruptions and for the prevention of volcanic disasters.
