EARLY COLONISTS OF THE SWISS LAKES. 307 



A comprehensive account of the present condition of our knowl- 

 edge of human industry in the lake epoch is furnished in the book just 

 published by Dr. Victor Gross on " The Proto-Helvetians, or the Ear- 

 lier Colonists of the Borders of the Lakes of Bienne and Neufchdtel " 



(" Lea ProtoJielvetea, ou les premiers colons des bords des lacs de Jiienne 

 etde NeucJiateV^). The author, a practicing physician at La Neuve- 

 ville, on the shore of the Lake of Bienne, has had the good fortune to 

 become possessed of products of all the special excavations made upon 



