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period of the emergence the present conditions of temperature set 
in and the molluscfauna (at the coast) gets a more arctic character. 
On the S.W. coast of Hunafioi, where the birch (Betula odorata) 
does not thrive now-to-days, abundant remains of birch occur in 
the peatmosses. It is very likely that we have in these facts an- 
other evidence of a climatic oscillation in the postglacial time. 
12.-5.-1910. 
