352 On the Ecin-Deer of the Laplanders. 



the osteological part of this work. And it is for the same 

 reason that their muscles have the special character which I 

 have assigned them in this chapter." 



On the subject of the laryngeal pouches, the existence of 

 which M. Vrolik has shcAvn in many species of monkey, he 

 brings forward a new opinion as to their use. He supposes 

 that these pouches " are organs fitted for facilitating motion. 

 Their situation among the muscles of the neck, the prolonga- 

 tions which they often form in the arm-pits, their increase in 

 size with age, appear to me so many proofs," he says, " that 

 they are reservoirs of air, made for the purpose of dimi- 

 nishing the specific gravity of the upper part of the body, and 

 consequently to facilitate the act of grasping, in the same 

 manner as reservoirs of air in birds favour flight." * 



On the Rein-Deer of the Laplanders. By Gustav Peter 

 Blom, Member of the Iloyal Academy of Sciences of Dron- 

 theim, &c. 



The Laplanders are originally a Nomadic race, supported 

 by rein-deer, and their principal branch still follows the same 

 mode of life. Poverty, however, has forced many Laplanders 

 to quit their native haunts in the mountains, and to descend 

 to the Norwegian coasts, or to the plains of Lapland, to seek 

 for the means of living. Thus two kinds have sprung up in 

 Norway : the Sea-Laps, who live on the coasts, and are 

 occupied with fishing, and the Boe-Laps, who have settled 

 in the valleys, have brought small tracts of land into cultiva- 

 tion, and support themselves by agriculture and the rearing of 

 cattle, coudjiiied partly with the rearing of rein-deer. The 

 Laplanders who have withdi'awn to Lapland may again be 

 divided into two kinds ; the Forest-Laps, who keep rein- 

 deer, but take them along with themselves only within a cer- 

 tain region, and who at the same time are hunters ; and 

 the Fisher- Laps, who have established themselves on the 

 shores of the great rivers and lakes of Lapland, and are 

 engaged in the taking of fish. The best shots are among the 

 Forest Laplanders, who furnish the yearly markets of Vitangi 



* From Eibliotliequt; UniverBolic dc Genove, No. 03, p. 170. 



