THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



NtW SERIES. DECADE V. VOL. X. 



No. I. -JANUARY, 1913. 



OIiIC3-ZIsr.A.Ij .A-IRTIOLES. 



I. — Emikent Living Geologists. 



Dr. Eduaed Suess, 

 Late Professor of Geology (1857-1908) in the University of Vienna ; For. 

 Memb. Koy. Soc. 1894 ; For. Corr. Geol. Soc. 1863 ; For. Memb. GeoL 

 Soe. 1877 ; Wollaston Medallist, 1896 ; Copley Medallist, 1903. 



(WITH A POETRAIT, PLATE I.) 



TO write an ade(]^uate notice of Professor Eduard Suess' work would 

 be to review the progress of Geology during nearly half a 

 century, for in all that time he was actively engaged in helping to 

 explain the great problems connected with the formation of the 

 features of the Earth's surface, and to trace accurately the principles 

 upon which these have been brought about. 



Born in London August 20, 1831, Eduard Suess went with his 

 parents to Prague in 1834, his father being engaged ;is a merchant in 

 the City of London in wool-importing from Bohemia, a business 

 which had declined owing to the abundant arrival of wool from 

 Australia. 



Suess' first publication appeared in 1850, entitled a Sketch of the 

 Geology of Carlsbad and its Mineral Waters. 



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

 Vienna, and in 1857 to be a professor in the University of Yienna. 

 In 1862 Suess resigned his museum woik and devoted all his leisure 

 not occupied by his lectures in the University to palseogeographical 

 researches, which culminated in his great work Die Antlitz der Erde, 

 "The Face of the Earth" (1883-5 and following years), wherein 

 he endeavoured to show the main factors and methods which have 

 ruled in geographical evolution. After a period of more than 

 twenty years from its appearance in Vienna, an English translation 

 of the fi.rst volume by Miss Hertha Sollas, edited by Professor Sollas, 

 was issued by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1904 ; whilst the 

 fourth volume in its English dress was published in 1909, bringing 

 the total number of pages up to 2,233. 



" The first translation of Suess' great work, Antlitz der Erde, was 

 into French (1897-1911), an edition which, thanks to the singular 

 erudition of its editor, Mons. E. de Margerie, has been so enriched 

 with footnotes as to become an invaluable work of reference for 

 published papers in every department of the wide range of subjects 

 of which it treats" (Geikie). 



In a limited notice of Professor Suess' life-work, such as the 

 present, it would be quite impossible to give an adequate idea of the 



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