90 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



ON THE 

 LAND AND FRESHWATER MOLLUSCA OF NORWAY. 



By (Miss) BIRGITHE ESMARK. 

 Malacological excursions may be made with the greatest ease 

 in Norway^ particularly in its southern or midland parts. You 

 may proceed from Christiania in an easterly direction to the 

 frontiers of Sweden, or in a northerly direction straight up to 

 Throndhjem* ; all the way either by rail or by steamer along our 

 coasts. In the latter case you may disembark and, if you 

 choose, take the smaller steamers and go up whichever you 

 please of our long and frequent fjords, and everywhere you will 

 be sure to find forests and fields, rivers, creeks, and lakes. 

 If you wish to proceed to the inland parts of the country 

 you will often find the most excellent footpaths that in many 

 instances will take you through lovely places with more or less 

 grand scenery. The south-western part of Norway round about 

 ' Jsedderen 't has, on the contrary, quite a different appearance. 

 It looks naked and uninteresting to the eye, but it is however 

 not at all unlikely that you might there find a rich malacological 

 fauna. We are led to think so from what has been found in 

 these tracts by people who have made occasional visits there. 

 All that is required is someone willing to sacrifice a few sum- 

 mer months to explore these regions. 



If you go in a northerly direction you may, as stated above, 

 proceed by rail, and you will find plenty of places very rich 

 in malacological respects ; for instance, ' CEsterdalen,' through 

 which the river Glommen winds. Three successive summers I 

 have visited some small part of this valley, and though I have 

 not been able to spend more than two or three weeks each 

 summer, I have found no less than thirty-seven species, mostly 

 freshwater mollusca. The part between Tdnset J and Thrond- 

 hjem is yet quite a terra incognita in malacological respects. 



* Throndhjem = Drontheim. 



t The letter " se " is pronounced like the English "a. ' 



X The "6" is pronounced like the diphthong "oe." 



J.C, v., July, 1886. 



