^{page 56 note *} A model of these by Jardine is stated by Necker to have been presented to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. I trust it still may be found in their museum.

^{page 56 note †} Voyages en Ecosse et aux Isles Hebrides, par L. A. Necker de Saussure, 3 vols. 8vo. Geneva, 1821. I may here note, that it is, or was the custom at Geneva, for unmarried men to assume their mother's surname after their own; after marriage, their wife's. Hence, M. Necker is sometimes spoken of as if his family name were De Saussure.

^{page 57 note *} Mr Cumming Bruce, M.P., recollects that at this period, Necker “used to express his regret that the party spirit then at its height between the Wernerians and Huttonians did not allow either to give due weight to facts which might have made them more tolerant of each other.”

^{page 58 note *} Writer to the Signet; a son of the author of the Man of Feeling.

^{page 58 note †} From a letter of Mr Cumming Bruce, whom, later, he visited at Oxford.

^{page 59 note *} Voyages en Ecosse, tome i. pp. 45 and 215. See also Etudes sur les Alpes, p. 363.

^{page 59 note †} He was in 1815 captain of a company in the Contingent Genevois, under General Bachman. I may here add that he was twice a deputy in the Grand Conseil of his Canton, and in 1818 was a representative of Geneva at the Swiss Diet.

^{page 60 note *} From a letter of Mr Cumming Bruce.

^{page 60 note †} Mem. de la Soc. de Phys. de Genève, tome ii.

^{page 60 note ‡} One of his public academical addresses, delivered in 1821, has been preserved (Bibliothèque Universelle, 1824).

^{page 60 note §} Etudes Geol. sur les Alpes. Preface.

^{page 61 note *} As an example, I may mention that soon after M. Favre's interesting paper had appeared in 1848, on the Geology of Chamouni, in which he announces the interesting fact that the summit of the Aiguìlle Rouge is composed of lias in horizontal strata, being at Portree, I mentioned the fact to M. Necker, who thereupon speedily turned up in his old Alpine notes a section of the Aiguìlle Rouge clearly expressing the same fact.

^{page 65 note *} Philes. Ind. Sci., book viii. chap. 3. Edit, 1840, vol. i. pp. 500–516.

^{page 66 note *} In this paper (Trans. Roy. Soc. Ed., vol. xiv.), Necker refers with much interest and satisfaction to his discovery of an outbreak of granite to the north of the head of Glencloy, quite detached from the granitic nucleus of Goatfell. Jameson had already noted syenite near this locality. I am not sure whether Necker recollected having cited Jameson's earlier observation in his own Voyage en Ecosse, tom. ii. p. 31.

^{page 66 note †} Tom. xxv., xxvi., for 1839 and 1840.

^{page 67 note *} The work itself includes numerous references to his observations in Scotland made in 1839.

^{page 68 note *} I have elsewhere pointed out (Edin. Review, April, 1842) some errors into which M. Necker fell in treating of the mechanism of glaciers, a subject to which he appears to have given but little attention.

^{page 69 note *} The memoir on birds seems to have been also printed separately. Necker's kinsman, M. H. de Saussure, a very competent judge, styles it “charmante production devenue très rare, trop peu connue à 1'étranger, et qui mériterait une nouvelle édition.” Its date is 1823.

^{page 69 note †} Bibl. Universelle, tom, xliii. 1830.

^{page 70 note *} This is the foundation of the popular phrase applied to the appearance of “the sun drawing water.” See Herschel's Astronomy (Lardner's Encyc.), p. 31.