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Scandinavia. — From the mountainous region of Valders in 

 Norway H. Reusch has given a very interesting description of soh- 

 fluction.^ To judge from his sketches and verbal testimony, the 

 phenomenon here is very similar to what I have studied in Bear. 

 Island, though not so largely developed. 



Fig. 4. — Recent mud-stream charged with big blocks. Stephens Peak, West 

 Falkland. 



From Sweden a considerable number of notes on solifluction 

 have been published quite recently, after my lectures on the flow- 

 ing slopes of arctic and sub- antarctic islands had directed the atten- 

 tion of our geologists to the problem. 



R. Sernander has given some very important observations from 

 Haijedalen, commenced in 1895 ^^'^ largely supplemented in the 

 summer of 1904.^ In the places studied by him, and as a rule 

 in all parts of the mountain regions of Sweden where the process 

 has been noticed, it has given origin only to small narrow terraces, 

 not to far extended mud-streams — a difference possibly indicating 



^ Norges Geologiske Under sogelse, Aarbog, 1900, pp. 75, 76. 

 2 Geol. Foren. i Stockholm Fork., 1905, pp. 42 ff. 



