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Montenvers, Vendredi 20 Juillet, 1798, sous la conduite de son pere, et 

 il a vu avec beaucoup de regret ces montagnes que son grand-pere ne 

 pourra plus revoir.' 



The youth completed his education at Edinburgh. 



In after life Louis Necker served for a time as a Professor at 

 Geneva. He was an extensive Alpine traveller. In a Preface to 

 the first volume (the only one published) of a work entitled 

 Etudes Geologiques dans les Alpes he mentions that he had crossed 

 the Mont Cenis, the Grimsel, the Spliigen, and St. Gotthard, and 

 visited not only Zermatt and Grindelwald, but also the Alps of the 

 Tarentaise, the Maurienne and Carniola. He afterwards returned 

 to Scotland and published three volumes of his travels in that 

 country (Geneva, 1821). Three years later he published in the 

 Bibliotheque, Universelle (vol. xxiii.) an article on the History 

 of Geology, in which he paid a tribute to the part played in it 

 by his grandfather. In his old age he settled in Edinburgh and 

 became the friend of Professor Forbes, who refers to his 

 geological work on the Alps as rich in observation but wanting 

 in the liveliness of his grandfather's Voyages. Professor Bonney 

 quotes from his pages a very minute and closely observed de- 

 scription of a sunset on Mont Blanc as seen from the Lake of 

 Geneva. 1 Forbes contributed an obituary notice of him to the 

 Proceedings of the Edinburgh Royal Society (vol. v. p. 53). Louis 

 Necker died and was buried at Portree in the Isle of Skye, in 

 1861, at the age of seventy -seven. 



1 The Alpine Regions, by T. G. Bonney (London and Cambridge, 1868). 



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