CONTENTS 



CHAP. PAOB 



I. FORERUNNERS ...... 1 



II. GENEVA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . . .31 



III. YOUTH AND EARLY TRAVELS . . . . .47 



IV. THE GRAND TOUR (1768-69) . . . . .91 

 V. ITALY ........ 121 



vi. TEN YEARS' ALPINE TRAVEL (1774-84) . . . 142 



VII. THE BUET ....... 175 



VIII. MONT BLANC . . . . . . .197 



IX. THE COL DU GEANT . . . . . .242 



X. MONTE ROSA . . , . . . . 262 



XI. DISCOURS PRELIMINAIRE, ETC. .... 286 



XII. POLITICS AT GENEVA ...... 294 



XIII. EDUCATION AND THE RIVIERA (1772-81) . . .311 



XIV. POLITICS AND HOME LIFE (1781-92) .... 332 

 XV. THE LAST YEARS ...... 365 



XVI. BONNET AND HALLER ..... 402 



XVII. DE SAUSSURE IN SCIENCE AND LITERATURE . . 421 



A NOTE ON THE METEOROLOGICAL WORK AND OBSERVATIONS ON 

 DEEP TEMPERATURES OF H. B. DE SAUSSURE, BY DR. H. R. 

 MILL ........ 457 



LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL PUBLISHED WORKS AND SCIENTIFIC PAPERS 



OF H. B. DE SAUSSURE ...... 467 



INDEX . 469 



