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extent and vigorous growth. There was as much difference between 
this Reindeer and another ordinary one as between a racehorse and 
a draught horse. If one could but produce a breed that resembled 
this Reindeer one would certainly considerably raise the working- 
power of Lapland. 
“Since he was speaking on the subject he could not forbear 
expressing his regret at the fate of the Lapps, obliging and useful as 
they are, in winter indeed almost necessary for the settlers. They 
do not deserve to be extirpated like the savage races of people in 
North America and other places, which civilized man has subdued 
for himself. And yet all signs point in this direction. Settlers are 
ever pressing towards the wildest parts of Lapland, and where they 
have settled down, Lapps can with difficulty keep their herds. For 
every trifling damage done to a far outlying hayrick, the owner is 
immediately ready with his claim for compensa'ion. There is the 
greatest probability that the Lapps cannot much longer hold: on 
in Finmark. Strictly excluded from Russian territory the nomad 
Lapps of that district will see their herds gradually disappear, and 
the fine race of Mountain Lapps who are so justly known for their 
retirmg and modest manners, must either altogether disappear or 
betake themselves to the seaside and increase the number of their 
poor and degraded brethren who have already settled down there.” 
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On tHe Swarm or Lemmines in Lapianp 1n 1853, tHE Birps 
THAT ACCOMPANIED IT AND THEIR MODE OF BREEDING |. 
(Om Svaruer ar ForskELLIGE Arrer ar SitzerTEeN, Lemus Livy., 
1 Aarer 1853 1 per norDiIGE Laptanp og om DE RovpyRr som 
FORFOLGE DEM.) 
[Forhandlinger ved de Skandinaviske Naturforskeres Syvende Mode. I Christiania 
den 12-18 Juli, 1856, pp. 216-224. Read 16 July, 1856. ] 
“Hy was so fortunate, the first time he was in Lapland, in the 
summer of 1853, te arrive during a period of Lemming-swarms. 
1 [Throughout this paper Mr. Wolley follows the scientific nomenclature of 
Professor Nilsson’s ‘Skandinaviske Fauna,’ which was then almost everywhere 
accepted in the country. It included all the species of Rodents here particularized 
under the genus Lemmus, and all the Birds-of-Prey named under either Faéco or 
Striv. The case of the Birds presents no difficulty to the reader; but in regard to the 
Mammals it may be remarked that few modern zoologists leave more than the true 
Lemming, the Mus lemmus of Linnzus, in the genus Lemmus, which some render 
by Myodes: the rest being referred to Arvicola, Lvotomys, Hypudeus, oy Microtus, 
more or less according to faney—the specific names printed being, however, retained 
in all cases, except that of L. medius, Nilsson, which seems to have been first 
properly described as Hypudeus ratticeps by Keyserling and Blasius.—Ep. | 
