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BY the death of Eduard Suess on April 26, Austria loses her most eminent man of science, and the world one of its greatest naturalists. The son of a German merchant, domiciled in this country, Suess was born in London on August 20, 1831. The family removed, while he was still young, first to Prague aqd then to Vienna—but to the end of his life Suess retained his affection for what he used to call his “ native land,” and maintained the most cordial relations with his numerous English friends. Hi's university career was commenced at Prague, but completed in Vienna, and at the age of twenty-one he became an assistant in the geological department of the famous Natural History Museum of the latter city. Here he worked for five years on the collections, and, as the result of his studies, published a number of important papers on graptolites, brachiopods, and other fossil forms.
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JUDD, J. Prof. Eduard Suess, For.Mem.R.S. . Nature 93, 245–246 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093245a0
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