[en] Paramagnetic scattering from mixed valence materials is reviewed. Some of the early measurements identified a broad quasielastic spectral distribution (e.g. a Lorentzian centered on zero energy with large, practically Q-independent widths (half-width approx.5-30 MeV) which remain finite as T → OK. More recent measurements using high energy neutrons on several mixed valance systems reveal inelastic peaks superposed on the broad quasielastic spectrum at low temperatures. These inelastic peaks progressively melt away with increasing temperature, accompanied possibly by some softening, and disappear almost completely around the temperature of the maximum in the susceptibility. Several possible mechanisms could semi-qualitatively account for the observed spectral response, a deeper insight into whose origin would aid in understanding the mixed valence phenomena