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writer of this Memoir, whose business has brought him into 

 contact with steam users in all parts of the kingdom, has been 

 much impressed by the respect still paid to his name by many 

 whose personal intercourse with him must have ceased years 

 ago. 



Mr. R. B. Longridge was elected a member of the Insti- 

 tution of Mechanical Engineers in 1856 and of this Society in 

 1857. He was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Chester, 

 and for some time Chairman of the Petty Sessional Division of 

 Bucklow, but relinquished that position about twelve years 

 before his death. C. E. S. 



Eduard Suess passed away on the 26th of April, 1914, his 

 death robbing the geological world of the greatest figure of 

 recent days. The lives of all great men are characterised by 

 unity of purpose, and the life of Suess was devoted to the recon- 

 struction of the past history of the earth's surface. He was not 

 a great contributor to the facts of science, though a man of the 

 widest observation ; his genius was the power to see details in 

 their true proportion and to unite the work of other men into a 

 consistent whole. Thus it comes to be that all his studies are 

 given to the world in one immortal work, the "Antlitz der 

 Erde." Other men have given us compilations ; in Suess's 

 volumes the facts are the stones of a masterly building. 



A man is known not only by his works, but still more fully 

 by his disciples ; and on this count Suess again stands pre- 

 eminent. To name only one or two of the most notable, among 

 his pupils are to be counted Waagen, Neumayr and Judd, and 

 it is noteworthy that his students became famous, and leaders in 

 their turn, in every branch of geological study. Indeed it may 

 safely be contended that no man exercised a mure profound 

 influence on the development of geological thought, while his 

 teaching has. founded a new science of Geography. 



Born in London on August 20th, 1831, Suess was taken in 

 early childhood to Prague. Pie was educated in the university 

 of that city and later at Vienna, where the remainder of his life 



