354 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1892. 



shipped the aforesaid stone to Dr. A. E. Foote, of No. 4116 Elm 

 Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



Signed, Charles Freeman." 

 This interesting specimen will remain permanently in Phila- 

 delphia. 



November 29. 

 The President, General Isaac J. Wistar, in the chair. 



Sixty-four persons present. 



The Committee on the Hayden Memorial Geological Award 

 reported that the medal and the interest arising from the fund had 

 been this year voted to Eduard Suess of Vienna. 



Report of the Committee on the Hayden Memorial 



Geological Award. 



The Committee appointed by the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia to recommend the award of the Hayden Memorial 

 Medal and accompanying fund, for the year 1892, have the honor to 

 report to the Academy that they have selected Prof. Eduard 

 Suess of Vienna, as their choice for the distinction which the award 

 confers. 



Prof. Eduard Suess was born in Loudon, Aug. 20th, 1831, 

 and is, therefore, but little beyond the prime of life. He studied 

 in Prague and in Vienna, becoming in 1852 assistant in the Hof- 

 mineralienkabinett of Vienna, professor of geology in 1857, and 

 shortly afterward general adviser to the Water Commission. Under 

 his guidance the present splendid system of w^ater supply, from a 

 natural reservoir located in the Raxalp, was introduced into the 

 Austrian capital. From 1863 to 1873 Prof. Suess was a member 

 of the Common Council of Vienna; in 1869 he was elected a mem- 

 ber of the Lower Austrian Diet, and in 1873 a representative to 

 the Imperial Reichsrath where he distinguished himself as a 

 brilliant orator and leader of the " Left." 



For upward of forty years Prof. Suess has been an indefatigable 

 worker in the domain of geology and paleontology, and it can be 



