1831-1841.] THE COSTUME OF THE GLACIER. 
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change of ownership, it has passed into other hands, and is 
now, I believe, in the possession of a Mr. Jones of Mailing- 
ton, Chester, who owns property in Beddgelert. The Dean 
was ridiculed about it at the time, as mentioned in Frank 
Buckland’s Life.” 
Mr. Sopwith, who was Dr. Buckland’s companion in 
some of his tours in search of glacier scratches, made a 
semi-caricature of Buckland, who, encumbered with the 
numerous heavy cloaks, thick travelling boots, bags of 
fossils, and rolls of maps, presents a figure fancifully like 
a glacier. The sketch is entitled “The costume of the 
glacier.” Dr. Buckland is represented as standing on a 
smooth bit of rock covered with scratches under his feet, 
and the explanation is then given : “ The rectilinear course 
of these grooves corresponds with the motions of an 
immense body, the momentum of which does not allow 
it to change its course upon slight resistance.” By his 
side are drawn “specimen No. 1, scratched by a glacier 
thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three years 
before the creation ; No. 2, scratched by a cart wheel on 
Waterloo Bridge the day before yesterday ; the whole 
picture being scratched by T. Sopwith.” 
Of Buckland’s English friends, the Archbishop of York 
(Vernon Harcourt) and his family were among the greatest, 
and, of course, when the Archbishop came to reside at 
Nuneham, near Oxford, the intimacy between the families 
greatly increased. From the Harcourt papers, lately pub¬ 
lished for private circulation only, it is interesting to read 
the correspondence which the Archbishop carried on with 
most of the illustrious people of the day, both scientific and 
political. It was the Rev. William Vernon Harcourt at 
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