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the British Association. The reptile in question died a 
natural death in a menagerie at St. Asaph, and passed into 
the hands of Hughes, a sweep of that place, by purchase, and 
not as the meed of valour. And he exhibited it to the visitors 
at Rhyl as having been killed in the caves of Cefn, after adver- 
tising himself in the Times, and thereby exciting a great deal 
of lucrative curiosity. The whole story as related in the 
Times is a mendacious and impudent hoax, which has been 
copied into many of the local papers and widely distributed. 
Its insertion in an organ of public opinion like the Times 
implies an amount of ignorance of natural history which is 
not creditable to English civilisation in the nineteenth 
century. 
“Notes on Glacier Moraines in Cumberland and "West- 
morland,” by William Brockbank, F.G.S. 
The author referred to the proceedings of the Geological 
Society of London for 1840-1, which contain notices of the 
evidences of glaciers having existed in Great Britain, by 
Professor Agassiz, Dr. Buckland, and others, and which 
point out (1) “ Moraine-like Masses of Drift,” which occur 
near the junction of the Eamont and Lowther with the 
Eden, near Penrith ; (2) The “ large and lofty insulated piles 
of gravel in the valley of the Kent near Kendal, and the 
smaller moraines and their detritus, which nearly fill the 
valley from thence to Morecambe Bay” ; (3) “ Similar 
mounds near Shap,” and (4) the “Gravel mounds near 
Milnthorpe and thence to Lancaster.” 
Of these the author considered the Kentmere Group, 
near Kendal, as most nearly fulfilling the conditions re- 
quired in true glacier moraines, and that in the other cases 
it admitted of doubt whether they were really due entirely 
to glacial action. 
The districts more particularly the subjects of the author’s 
notes are (1) The valleys of Eskdale and the Duddon (which 
