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teeth of some gnawing parasite. Other horns are those of the elk 

 and the roebuck. 



We find the bear, the boar, the beaver, and a number of jaws of 

 small species of gnawing and carnivorous animals. The horse seems 

 to be as yet rare, the ox is abundant, the goat, the sheep, the do- 

 mestic swine, and the dog complete the list of domestic animals. 

 This list, still incomplete, can give no adequate idea of the numerous 

 bones discovered; their aggregate weight reaches to many hundred 

 pounds. They are in general very much broken, which may result 

 either from the fabrication of instruments or from the decided taste 

 of the lacustrian population for marrow. Professer Rutimeyer will 

 be good enough to pass judgment upon this rich collection of bones, 

 and while awaiting the results which he will communicate to us I 

 copy from that learned naturalist his list of the animals, the bones of 

 which, preserved in the museum of Lausanne, had been previously 

 obtained from the site of Concise. They are the primitive ox races, 

 trocJioceros and hrachyceros^ the goat, the marsh hog, primitive races 

 of the sheep and the dog, the stag, the elk, the goat, the bear, the 

 boar, the wolf, the fox, the beaver, the badger, the pole cat, and the 

 martin-. The first vertebra of a human back bone must be mentioned, 

 as well as some fragments of skulls which have passed into other 

 hands. It is in the remarkable work that M. Rutimeyer has published 

 upon the fauna of the period of the lacustral habitations in Switzer- 

 land that we must study the important scientific questions suggested 

 by these determinations. 



Notwithstanding the very numerous and various objects brought to 

 light by our latest dredgings,it is a remarkable fact that not one 

 article of metal was dredged from the bottom of the lake on these 

 occasions. Yet in the labors of 1859 some bronze instruments were 

 discovered ; but it must be borne in mind that they were obtained 

 from one of the extremities of the lake at which we had not time to 

 place our drag. Everything tends to establish the belief that, after 

 the destruction of the hamlet, a few cabins which escaped at the 

 time of the fire, or which were subsequently built, were still in ex- 

 istence at the commencement of the following period. I say at the 

 commencement, because during the second age new habitations were 

 built further advanced in the water, where the bronze sword was 

 found which is preserved in the museum of Neufchatel. 



The various kinds of objects of industry which have been dis- 

 covered at Concise were not distributed in the same abundance at all 

 points of the site. The whitish and veined silexes come from the same 

 point, and the two principal kinds of axe helves also come from two 

 difierent parts of the site. The stone discs with a hole hollowed in 

 them Avere almost all found in the same place. The spot which cm- 

 tained the most of uninjured objects was called by the laborers "the 

 handle warehouse." Without attaching too much importance to those 

 difierent species of deposits, it is yet not without interest to add that 

 observations of the same kind have been made at some other sites 

 of lacustrian habitations, which lead to the inference that there already 



