Swiss Lakes Research Articles

Exhibition and Description of a Collection of Stone and other Remains from Swiss Lake Dwellings, illustrative of the Agriculture, Manufactures, &c., of the Lake Dwellers

Lord Rosehill exhibited some of the artefacts he collected on his trip to Switzerland. These artefacts were collected at the site of Stone Age lake-dwellings in the Swiss Alps. Lady Rosehill also provided a list of plant seeds collected at the sites. Professor Simpson thanked Lord Rosehill for his talk and added some further remarks on the sites from his own visit.
 
 Meeting notes for 14 March, 1870 are appended. At this meeting, Lady Alicia Ann Scott (referred to as Lady John Scott) was elected as the Society’s first Lady Associate.

III.—Notice of Soundings executed in the Lake of Como, with a view to determine the Form of its Bed

Those who have taken part in the recent discussions as to the origin of lake-basins are well aware that one of the chief causes which has retarded a settlement of the controversy is the ignorance prevailing as to the true form of such basins. Even as to the Swiss and Lombard lakes, constantly visited as they have been by men of science, the data are extremely scanty and no way reliable. A few soundings made by myself in the Lake of Como, in 1863, and referred to in a paper published in the Philosophical Magazine in the following December, increased my conviction of the importance of instituting careful and exact measurements of the form and dimensions of the beds of lakes, if we were to reason securely as to their origin. I expressed that conviction at the time to an active local naturalist, Don Baldassare Bernasconi, residing at Laglio. In 1865 Signer Gentilli, one of the engineers of the Lombardo-Venetian Railway, being for some months on the Lake, proposed to undertake a regular survey of the bed of the Lake by means of a complete series of soundings, and devised an instrument for measuring the distances traversed horizontally in a boat, corresponding to each cast of the sounding line. Signer Gentilli found two active coadjutors in the persons of the above-named ecclesiastic, and of Dr. Guiseppe Casella, also resident at Laglio, on the Lake.

XX.—On some Discoveries of Stone Implements in Lough Neagh, Ireland

It may be agreeable to this society to receive some account of one of the most extensive, if not the most interesting, discoveries of stone implements which has of late years taken place within the United Kingdom. Indeed, so far as the number of objects found is concerned, the discoveries on the shores of Lough Neagh may almost be ranked with those of the prolific caves of the Dordogne, or those of the Pfahlbauten of the Swiss Lakes.

Notices of Remains from the Ancient Lacustrine Habitations of Switzerland; and from the Drift of the Valley of the Somme

Professor Allman exhibited some artefacts unearthed near the Swiss Lakes and in the valley of the Somme, arguing that the artefacts found in the Somme valley were older than those from the Lakes. However, other members of the Society disagree, suggesting that there may have been other factors such as the environment of the Somme valley and available building materials that contributed to the difference in the artefacts.

LXXIII. On the origin of the Swiss lakes

LXXIII. <i>On the origin of the Swiss lakes</i>