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before, almost young in appearance with his beautiful grave face a 
little pale and his magnificent eyes where one could almost see the 
reflection of the illimitable oceans, and which looked, tender and full 
of feeling, into the depths of one’s soul. He spoke with a deep, ex- 
pressive, richly modulated voice, in which the glow of former intense 
or high-wrought emotions was extinguished, and there remained but 
hushed sonorousness and quiet feeling. Then around the circle of 
his listeners a murmur would pass and they would give their close 
attention, fearing lest they lose a word, an accent; they would have 
wished to fix this instant of inestimable value in the passage of time 
which, alas, never stops. Thus we see him in 1903 at the Geological 
Congress in Vienna, keeping aloof from the sessions and official 
receptions, but willingly receiving his friends of every country with 
a marked predilection for his friends of France. Thus we see him 
again nine years later in August, 1912, at Innsbruck, come from his 
Hungarian village expressly to preside at the reunion of the geologists 
of the Alps, at the principal function of the excursion organized by 
the Geologische Vereinigung. This was the last manifestation of his 
scientific activity. Is it not fitting that this last effort was made by 
the author of ‘ Die Entstehung der Alpen,” on behalf of the geology 
of the Alps and in the presence of the investigators through whom 
the Alps have become better understood? Before this time, in 1905, 
Eduard Suess had sojourned several weeks in the Basse-Engadine; 
and from this trip of 1905, the last in which he had been able to make 
excursions on foot among the rocks themselves, hammer in hand, 
and to make personal observations, he made announcement of his 
full and entire compliance with the doctrine of great ‘“‘nappes de 
recouvrement,”’ or overthrust, a compliance soon formulated in a note 
to the Academy of Sciences of Vienna, “Das Inntal bei Nauders,”’ 
and affirmed more briefly still in 1909, in the last volume of ‘“ Das 
Antlitz der Erde.’’ Now, in 1912, controversies had ceased and our 
reunion at Innsbruck, gay and fraternal, had a character almost 
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Now, in the soil of Hungary, in the cemetery of the little town of 
Marczfalva, repose the mortal remains of Eduard Suess, until the 
day when the angel— 
* * * swinging open the gates, 
Shall, faithful and joyous, make gleam again 
The tarnished mirrors, quicken the dead flames. 
The Hungarian plain has become the tomb of him who so much 
loved and so well understood the mountains. But the Alps are not 
far off; they cut across the horizon; and indeed we know that in 
their mad journey toward the Carpathians, their waves of stone passed 
even here. The place is, therefore, not ill chosen to shelter the dust 
