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Gogga Brown 



Huxley a few months later telling him how he 

 had got five days' leave and, having procured a 

 wagon and oxen and the services of four natives 

 and three white men, he had gone to the Storm- 

 berg rocks in search of more of the dinosaurian 

 remains. The expedition had been fairly success- 

 ful, and he had obtained a number of bones of 

 the foot. He also offered to send Huxley the 

 skulls of any recent South African animals in 

 which he might be interested. 



For some reason or other Huxley never replied 

 to this letter. He was busy, of course, and he may 

 have hesitated to poach on what were clearly 

 Murchison's preserves. Brown had also written 

 in the above strain to Murchison, telling him of 

 the specimens which he had now sent off to him 

 in a second box, and, as if to whet his appetite, 

 informing him that he had a marvellous * principal 

 animal ' which he proposed to send in a third box. 

 About this important specimen Brown anticipated 

 a later scientific verdict upon it, when he wrote 

 " If my immature judgment does not deceive me, 

 I have every reason to believe that the animal 

 possesses characters appertaining to the Saurian 

 and the Mammal.'* Of the contents of a fourth 

 box which he intended also to send he wrote : 

 M I shall have, when finished, a most singular 

 animal of moderate bulk, but having extraordinary 



