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then 20 cm. clay. The skeletal fragments were situated 

 about 60 cm. deep in tlie marl which extended still 60 cm. 

 deeper. The place was situated 48, 2 o m. above the sea level. 

 This is the northernmost find of fossil remains of the 

 southern invasion of Reindeer in Sweden, and to the north of 

 Scania such remains have been found only once in Smolan- 

 dia, and once on the island Oeland. The Reindeer must have 

 become extinct very soon in southern Sweden in postglacial 

 time, it is therefore of great interest to state that it reached 

 as far north as to the place mentioned above. 



2. The skeleton of a Plioca hisyida has been found in the 

 parochial district Trönö in Helsingia about 17 kilometres 

 northwest from the town of Söderhamn about 41 m. above 

 the sea and about 3 m. deep in clay. The diatoms found in 

 this clay (see list of species p. 10) indicate that the skeleton 

 belongs to the Ancylus epoch when the Baltic was a fresh- 

 water lake. The skeleton is of an old fullgrown male, but 

 the different bones are much smaller than those of Ringed 

 Seals of the present day, which appears to indicate that a 

 dwarfed race of this seal inhabited the Ancylus lake. 



3. The skeletons of two specimens of Ringed Seal, both 

 fullgrown old males have been found at the village Rutvik in 

 Norrbotten about 11 kilometres from the town of Luleå about 

 1,4 m. deep in clayey soil but only 0,5 m. above the Gulf of 

 Bothnia. The diatoms (see list of species p. 15) indicate that 

 the deposit has originated in a freshwater lagoon. The 

 place where the find was made was formerly the end of a 

 system of long and narrow sounds and fjords. It is pos- 

 sible that the specimens, which were smaller than normal 

 Ringed Seals, had entered this water-system and reached its 

 inner end at a period when the water was deeper than 

 usual and not found their way out, or become landlocked 

 when the water fell out. The situation does not indicate 

 any great age geologically spöken. 



4. The skeleton of a Goose has been found in the city 

 of Sundsvall in boulder-clay (no diatoms) 1,20 m. above the 

 sea. The bones of the wing were about as large as those of 

 Anser anser or A. fahalis but the tarsus and toes much 

 smaller than in the mentioned species, and, above all, the 

 very short hind toe proves that the fossil Goose has nothing 

 to do with them (see table of measurements p. 23) nor with 



