288 Obituary — Eduard Suess. 



Ko doubt tke descriiitions in bore journals have to be interpreted 

 freely, but the differences in the above descriptions can hardly be 

 thus dismissed. The original assignments in the Survey Memoirs of 

 the two series of beds to different systems appear both to have 

 been correct. Mr. Lamplugh was probably right in identifying the 

 Isle of Man beds as Triassic saliferous marls and Mr. Holmes in 

 identifying the Abbeytown beds as Permian Gypseous Shales. Why 

 correlate the beds at Abbeytown with such different beds over 

 50 miles distant, while similar rocks occur only 16 miles away? If 

 the identifications in the Isle of Man and Carlisle memoirs be correct, 

 then the salt-bearing marls of the Isle of Man belong to a different 

 system from the Glypseous Shales of Abbeytown, and the red sandstone 

 below the two sets of beds is probably also of different age. The 

 fact that the sandstone below the Keuper marls in the Isle of Man is 

 the St. Bees Sandstone is an additional reason why the sandstone 

 below the Permian Gypseous Shales at Abbeytown is not the St. Bees 

 Sandstone. j ^y Gregory. 



Geological Department, 



University, Glasgow. 

 May 14, 1914. 



OBITTJ^A-^?."^- 



EDUARD SUESS. 



Born August 20, 1831. Died April 26, 1914. 



It is with deep regret we record the death of our dear friend of 

 long ago, Professor Eduard Suess, which occurred at Vienna on 

 Sunday, April 26. It was so lately as in January of last year (Geol. 

 Mag., 1913) that we published a brief notice with his portrait 

 (Plate I) among our list of Eminent Living Geologists. 



In 1851 he was appointed an Assistant in the Imperial Museum, 

 Vienna, and in 1857 he was made Professor in the Vienna University. 

 In 1862 he resigned his Museum work and devoted all his leisure, 

 not occupied by his lectures in the University, to palasogeographical 

 researches, culminating in his great work Das Antlitz der Erde (The 

 Face of the Earth), Prag, Wien, Leipzig, 1883-1909. An English 

 translation, from the Clarendon Press, Oxford, appeared in 1904, 

 edited by Professor Sollas, the fourth volume of which was issued 

 in 1909. 



Sir Archibald Geikie writes of the French translation, edited by 

 M. E. de Margerie (1897-1911), that it has been "so enriched with 

 footnotes by its Editor as to become an invaluable work of reference 

 for published papers in every department of the wide range of 

 subjects of which it treats". 



Professor Suess was a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and also 

 of the Geological Society of London, and received the Copley Aledal 

 from the Royal Society in 1903, and was WoUaston Medallist of the 

 Geological Society in 1896. "Scarcely any other investigator of 

 modern times has influenced science so lastingly and deeply as 

 Eduard Suess " (Steinmann). 



