Obituary. 



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On a Staurolite-garnet-mica-schist from Lian-tung ; by M. Oyu. 



Ein neuer Ammonitenfund aus der Trigonia sandstein-Gruppe 

 von Provinz Tosa ; von H. Yabe. 



Riebeckite-bearing Soretite-trachj^andesite and its allied glassy 

 variety (Monchiquite) from Kozaki, Prov. Bungo, Japan ; by S. 

 Kozu. On some occurrences of andalusite in the environs of 

 Hitachi mines ; by M. Oyu. 



Obituary. 



Eduard Suess, dean of modern geology and geologists, passed 

 away on April 26, 1914, in the fullness of his eighty-three years, 

 revered by all students of his chosen earth science and loved by 

 all who came under the influence of his warm personality. 



The son of a German merchant of Jewish extraction, Suess was 

 born in London on August 20, 1831. Here his parents resided 

 until 1834, when they removed to Prague, and eleven years later 

 to Vienna, where the youth was destined to rise to great eminence 

 in the University, in the council of the city, and in the Austrian 

 parliament. While in the Polytechnic School, it became appar- 

 ent that his natural bent was wholly toward natural history 

 studies, and at nineteen years of age he published his first paper, 

 a short sketch of the geology of Carlsbad and its mineral 

 waters. In 1851 he was appointed as assistant in the Geological 

 Department of the Royal Natural History Museum at Vienna, 

 where for the next eleven years he devoted himself to pale- 

 ontology, and chiefly to brachiopods of the Paleozoic and 

 Mesozoic eras. 



At the age of twenty-six, Suess was appointed extraordinary 

 professor and in 1867 full professor in the University of Vienna, 

 and there he remained for forty-four years, a great and enthusiastic 

 teacher, until his retirement at the age of seventy. Among his 

 students may be mentioned Neumayr, Mojsisovics, Fuchs, 

 Waagen, and Penck. 



The greater part of Suess' long life was devoted to working 

 out the evolution of the features of the earth's surface. The 

 problem of mountain-building presented itself .to his mind during 

 his many excursions in the eastern Alps, and in 18*75 he stated his 

 views thereon in the small volume called Die Entstehitng der 

 Alpen. This work, according to Geikie, " contains the germ of 

 those later contributions to science which have placed him on so 

 conspicuous an eminence among the geologists of the day. . . To 

 thoughtful students of the science this treatise, in his firm hold of 

 detail combined with singularly vivid powers of generalisation, 

 was full of suggestiveness. But the interest and importance of 

 its subject did not obtain general recognition until it was followed 

 ten years afterwards (1885) by the first volume of the great 

 Antlitz der Erde — the work which has chiefly given Suess his 

 place among his contemporaries, and by which his name will be 



