THE AXXALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 



No. 71. NOVEMBER 1893. 



LIII. — A Month on the Trondhjem Fiord. By tlie Rev. 

 Canon NoRMAN, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., &c. 



[Plate XVI.] 



I HAD already spent four summer holidays in dredging on the 

 Norwegian coast. In 1878 I went first toOster Fiord, whicli 

 is a little north of Bergen, and along the lovely sides ot which 

 the admirably engineered railway from Bergen to Voss now 

 passes through endless cuttings and tunnels ; then I took up 

 ray quarters on Bukken, an islet in the Bergen Fiord, and 

 subsequently had a week's work at Drobak, on the Christiania 

 Fiord. In 1879 I went to the Hardanger Fiord, staying at 

 Lervig, on the island of Stordo. In 1882 I determined to 

 visit Floro, a district made classic by tlie admirable work 

 done there fifty years ago by Professor M. Sars, at that time 

 lilinister of Florrj. While there I received an urgent request 

 from Prof. E. Ray Lankester to come to Lervig and help him 

 to find Rhahdopltura, which I had taken there in 1879. I 

 therefore left Florii and joined him at Lervig. In 1890 I 

 spent two months in East Finmark or Lapland, dredging 

 first from Vadsb, 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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