1866 IS MADE LL.D. OF EDINBURGH 397 



In paleontology he published this year papers on 

 the " Vertebrate Eemains from the Jarrow Colliery, 

 Kilkenny ; " on a new " Telerpeton from Elgin," and 

 on some " Dinosaurs from South Africa." The latter, 

 and many more afterwards, were sent over by a 

 young man named Alfred Brown, who had a curious 

 history. A Quaker gentleman came across him when 

 employed in cleaning tools in Cirencester College, 

 found that he was a good Greek and Latin scholar, 

 and got him a tutorship in a clergyman's family at 

 the Cape. He afterwards entered the postal service, 

 and being inspired with a vivid interest in geology, 

 spent all the leave he could obtain from his office on 

 the Orange River in getting fossils from the Storm- 

 berg Rocks. These, as often as he could afford to 

 send such weighty packages, he sent to Sir R. 

 Murchison, to whom he had received a letter of 

 introduction from his official superior. Sir Roderick, 

 writing to Huxley, says " that he was proud of his 

 new recruit," to whom he sent not only welcome 

 words of encouragement, but the no less welcome 

 news that the brother of his "discoverer," hearing of 

 the facts from Professor Woodward, offered to defray 

 his expenses so that he could collect regularly. 



On April 2 Huxley was in Edinburgh to receive 

 the first academic distinction conferred upon him in 

 Britain. He received the honorary degree of the 

 University in company with Tyndall and Carlyle. 

 It was part of the fitness of things that he should be 

 associated in this honour with his close friend 



