THE ANNALS 
AND 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[SIXTH SERIES.] 
No. 71. NOVEMBER. 1893. 
LUIL.—A Month on the Trondhjem Fiord. By the Rev. 
Canon Norman, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., &e. 
[Plate XVI.] 
] WAD already spent four summer holidays in dredging on the 
Norwegian coast. In 1878 I went first to Oster Fiord, which 
is a little north of Bergen, and along the lovely sides of which 
the admirably engineered railway from Bergen to Voss now 
passes through endless cuttings and tunnels; then I took up 
my quarters on Bukken, an islet in the Bergen Fiord, and 
subsequently had a week’s work at Drébak, on the Christiania 
Fiord. In 1879 I went to the Hardanger Fiord, staying at 
Lervig, on the island of Stordé. In 1882 I determined to 
visit Floré, a district made classic by the admirable work 
done there fifty years ago by Professor M. Sars, at that time 
Minister of Floré. While there I received an urgent request 
from Prof. EK. Ray Lankester to come to Lervig and help him 
to find Rhabdopleura, which I had taken there in 1879, I 
therefore left Flor6 and joined him at Lervig. In 1890 I 
spent two months in Hast Finmark or Lapland, dredging 
first from Vadsé, on the Varanger Fiord, and subsequently 
working the Sydvaranger Fiords from Kirchenes, which is 
close on the Russian frontier. It had been my purpose this 
past summer to have gone southwards, but my doctor ordered 
me north. This being the case, I selected the Trondhjem 
Fiord as the place for my researches. I was led to this 
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