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widely to make known both what we possess and what we stand in 

 need of, a certain number of copies of the suggested work might be 

 distributed in the country; and it would not be amiss to send, also, 

 some copies to those of our compatriots abroad who are in a position 

 to aid us. The interest which the Swiss everywhere take in all that 

 concerns their fatherland is too well known to allow of any doubt 

 that such an appeal would be properly answered. 



SUMMARY OF SUGGESTIONS SUBMITTED FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF THE 

 COMMISSION OF THE MUSEUMS. 



1. To undertake researches with the dredge, or, still better, with 

 the diving-bell, upon the sites of lacustrian habitations. 



2. To grant an allowance to some of our compatriots abroad to 

 enable them to collect antiquities or ethnological objects in Italy, the 

 Indies, Australia, and America. 



3. To hasten the completion of the repairs of the marble room. 



4. To open the cabinet of antiquities as often as that of the other 

 rooms of the museum. 



5. To have gendarmes or civic police in attendance on the open 

 days. 



6. To publish a popular work on the object and present state of the 

 museum. 



REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONERS OP THE MUSEUMS OF THE CANTON OF VAUD, 



ON THE 



EESEARCHES MADE AT CONCISE, 



FROM SEPTEMBER 23 TO OCTOBER 19, 1861. 



By FRED. TROYON. 



The proceeds of the public exhibitions at Lausanne, in the year 

 1859, for the benefit of the cantonal collections, allowed a sum of 

 six hundred francs to be devoted to the acquisition of antiquities for 

 the museum. The allotment of that sum enabled me, in the same 

 year, to make researches, the result of which is described in my work 

 on Lacustrian Habitations, pages 132, 139. Shortly afterward the 

 remainder of the money devoted to the museum of antiquities was 

 absorbed by the purchase of a great number of specimens discovered 

 during the construction of the railway at Concise ; but that advance 

 having been repaid to me by the state, it has served as current 

 funds until quite lately, when further expenses for new researches 

 put an end to our resources. 



Among the numerous places of exploration Concise was especially 

 fitted for our researches by its high antiquity and the great number 



