PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
KOYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBUEGH. 
VOL. V. 1862-63. No. 60. 
Monday^ bth January 1863. 
Professor KELLAND, V.P., in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Biographical Account of Professor Louis Albert Necker^ 
of Geneva^ Honorary Member of the Eoyal Society of 
Edinburgh. By David James Forbes, D.C.L., F.E.S., 
V.P.E.S. Ed., Principal of the United College of St Sal- 
vador and St Leonard, in the University of St Andrews. 
Louis Albert Necker, who died at Portree, in Skye, on the 20th 
November 1861, aged 76, had been for many years a Foreign 
Honorary Fellow of the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh. 
His relation to the Eoyal Society, and to Scotland generally, was, 
however, far different from what belongs to most honorary members. 
As a youth, his studies had been pursued at the Edinburgh Uni- 
versity. He had received almost his first introductions to society 
amongst the very best circles which the Scottish capital, in the 
days of perhaps its highest literary and scientific celebrity, could 
afford ; he visited the Highlands, and even the remoter Hebrides, 
with an admiring enthusiasm which few native tourists have sur- 
passed. In later life he returned with renewed interest to revisit 
the scenes where he spent his youth. He not unfrequently attended 
the meetings of the Eoyal Society, and occasionally contributed to 
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