LIFE OF EDUARD SUESS—-TERMIER. T18 
yet after the death of Uhhg he had the consolation of seeing his own 
son, Franz-Eduard Suess, take possession of this same chair. The 
incomparable joy of being succeeded by a son who continues the work 
of the father and who is known to be worthy of so doing, that joy 
known to but few men of genius, was not refused him. 
He had been a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences for 
a long time when in 1893 he was made its vice president. In 1899 
he was elected president of this illustrious company, and kept that 
honorable position for 12 years. Named correspondent of the 
Academy of Sciences of Paris in 1889, he took his place, some time in 
1900, among the foreign associates, succeeding Frankland. Honors 
came to him in proportion as his authority and reputation increased; 
the man himself remained modest, indifferent to titles, disdaining 
riches, voluntarily bound to a family life, austere and simple, his soul 
shut to personal ambitions, open only to noble ideas, to the disin- 
terested cultivation of science, to the love of his fellow citizens, and 
of all mankind, to the tender affections which are born and cherished 
in the atmosphere of the domestic hearthstone. 
An admirable life, deserving of happiness, and which indeed at- 
tained it in the measure at least in which a man of such great com- 
prehension can be happy. Eduard Suess knew the ineffable sweetness 
of a peaceful life, in the midst of a numerous and closely united 
family. This existence had its hours of sorrow, but these do not 
come without consolation and never bring with them despair. He 
saw his six children grow up around him and later numerous grand- 
children, and in his family circle, delightfully intimate, when he ceased 
to work, to think, to teach, when he stopped to chat or smile, he had 
only to lend ear to the rumblings from without. Among these 
rumblings, some no doubt the inarticulate sounds of the great city, 
came one sound which he well knew, for he had heard it from his 
youth, the sound of praise. An honor discreet and lasting, the gift 
of universal acclamation, accorded by the unanimous admiration of 
all who cultivated the same science, were interested in the same 
problems and had the same ideal; an appreciation expressed con- 
stantly by the receipt of an enthusiastic letter, a book bearing an 
inspired dedication, a visitor who presented himself with the pious 
and grateful attitude of a pilgrim, full of love, at the shrine of some 
sanctuary of former times. 
_ The end was worthy of the entire life and lingered serene and 
splendid like ‘the twilight of a beautiful day.” Until the spring of 
1913 the aged master enjoyed good health and old age, which never 
affected his intelligence, touched his physical strength but timidly as 
with regret. His age was betrayed only by hesitation and difficulty 
in walking. Once seated, he seemed as he was ten or a dozen years 
