| Show AX t m Professor Irole sor Edward president of the VIenna Academy of or Sciences whose portrait appears In the accompanying illustration Is I regarded by Jy many of 01 his contemporaries temporaries con as the foremost geologist of ot our time The scientific men of ll S Austria his hla na native f tive land recent recently f ly h Joined in a 11 aI I celebration of ot othis his seventieth rT birthday on oni i 17 which occasion he proved his right to 10 be called rolled a II sliver Oliver tongued era ora orator ra tor as nil well as geologist His chief con contribution contribution to knowledge In book look form formIs i Is The Tho race Tace of ot the tho tb c Harth a II treatise I on the globes glou 11 geologic features but he heIs heIs Is also known ns as a n writer on mountain formations and has bas been several times the recipient of medals from scientific societies A A |