LIFE OF EDUARD SUESS—TERMIER. 715 
of the man who was the incomparable singer of all these things. 
Neither the steps nor the cries of the living come to trouble the sleep 
of the master. From time to time, however, a geologist will come, 
who, full of respect and gratitude, will meditate before the solitary 
slab, praismg God for having instilled so much grandeur and such a 
reflection of his divinity into the souls of the giants of the human 
race. 
I have cited above the principal works of Eduard Suess. It is 
necessary to add to the list I have given many short notes and arti- 
cles on different subjects: Tectonics, comparative geology, volca- 
noes, seismology, questions on the origin of meteorites, the question 
of the composition and the structure of the moon, the question of the 
recent displacement of the coast lines, and many others. The 
majority of the notes were published in the “‘comptes rendus”’ of the 
Academy of Vienna; the articles almost all appeared in the Neue 
Freie Presse, of which Suess was for a long time one of the scientific 
chroniclers. But that which is essential in both is found in the last 
chapters of ‘Das Antlitz der Erde.”’ Among the colossal labors of 
Eduard Suess, those which immediately attract attention, those 
which will endure for an indefinite time on their own merits without 
becoming obsolete, to preserve for centuries the glory and majesty 
of the beautiful ruins, are the two books, “‘ Die Entstehung der Alpen”’ 
and “Das Antlitz der Erde.” 
“Die Entstehung der Alpen” is a small work of 168 pages, pub- 
lished in Vienna in 1875, composed of 8 chapters. The author brings 
up and defends the idea that in the formation of mountains the pre- 
ponderating réle is played by horizontal displacements, moving in 
one direction. Each chain is a whole, thrust from the same quarter 
over the preexisting formations, which resist, and on which the com- 
pressed zone advances. There is but one cause which has produced 
the whole Alpine system; this cause is a thrust from the south or 
southeast. Characteristics analogous to those of the Alps are mani- 
fested in the Balkans, in the Caucasus, in the chains of the American 
northwest. * * * Each chain is the work of a very long period, 
and its formation is the sum of a multiplicity of occurrences. The 
author insists on the coincidence of the Alpine zone with geosyn- 
clines. He remarks—and no one before him had cared to do it—on 
the magnitude and the generality of certain marine transgressions; 
for example, of the Cenomanian transgression. He foresaw the period- 
icity and the quasigenerality of transgressions and recessions. In 
the next to the last chapter he invites us to make with him the tour 
of the earth; he shows us in Europe and in the east of northern 
America the predominance of thrusts toward the north; he calls 
our attention to those immense regions of the surface of the 
