292 Annals of the South African Museum. 



EUSKELESAURUS BROWNI, Huxley. 

 ORINOSAURUS CAPENSIS, Lydekker. 



Never was there a man with a greater genius for collecting than 

 Mr. Alfred Brown, of Aliwal North, and though Aliwal is by no 

 means a rich district, his perseverance during over fifty years has 

 been rewarded by the discovery of a large number of most interesting 

 remains. But valuable as his work has been, we who know the 

 man have some idea of what he would have done had he received 

 more encouragement. 



When he discovered the large bones of Euskelesaurus he spent 

 a very considerable sum in excavating and having them sent to 

 England. The first consignment was sent to Sir R. Murchison, 

 who handed them over to Huxley for description. Huxley recognised 

 the remains as those of huge Dinosaurs, and named the principal 

 form EusJcelesaurus browni. A large crushed tibia he described as 

 Orosaurus. A second consignment was sent to Murchison, and 

 the receipt of it duly acknowledged, but this lot of bones was 

 apparently lost. Brown sent his next consignment to Paris, 

 where it was described and figured by Fischer. A still later 

 collection was sent to Vienna. Mr. Brown informs me that all 

 these collections were got at the same spot, so that while it 

 is manifest that they are the remains of two individuals, it 

 is probable that the Vienna remains are parts of the type of 

 Euskelesaurus browni. He further informs me that the collection 

 which has been lost "contained chiefly the remains of large limbs 

 and other massive bones." 



Seeley, in 1894, redescribed and figured all the principal remains 

 of Euskelesaurus, including a further number of bones that had been 

 obtained by Mr. Brown. In addition, he describes a lower jaw and 

 cervical vertebra obtained at Kraai Eiver which are doubtfully 

 referred to Euskelesaurus browni. In 1905 Mr. Brown sent to the 

 South African Museum some further remains from Kraai Eiver, also 

 believed to be Euskelesaurus, but when the remains were developed 

 it was found that they belonged to a new animal which was not 

 even a Dinosaur. This new type I named Erythrosuchus africanus. 

 When the collection of fossils given by Dr. Kannemeyer to Professor 

 Seeley was worked up, it was found to contain much of the skeleton 

 of another specimen of Erythrosuchus, including the greater part of 

 the skull, and when the mandible was compared with that supposed 

 to be of Euskelesaurus, the two were seen to be practically similar. 

 There is thus no doubt that the mandible figured by Seeley is really 



