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Gogga Brown 



Huxley, one can well understand how quickly 

 they would see through him and hesitate to have 

 any further dealings, especially financial ones, 

 with such a person. 



A London scientist of a later generation, namely, 

 Professor H. G. Seeley, the famous palaeontologist, 

 was no more successful in his handling of Brown. 

 In 1 889 he paid Brown a visit, and took away on 

 loan a large collection of fossils for examination. 

 Fifteen years later the Keeper of Geology at the 

 British Museum, in whose charge the Seeley 

 specimens had been left, suffered some prick of 

 conscience, since he wrote to Brown asking him 

 whether he would care to become enrolled among 

 the benefactors of the Museum or alternatively, 

 would he take £40 for his specimens? Before 

 deciding upon which of the alternatives he would 

 accept Brown wrote to the Keeper and facetiously 

 asked him just what was meant by becoming 

 ' enrolled as a benefactor * ? Did it mean that 

 his name would appear somewhere, for he had 

 noticed that the first fossils he had sent over were 

 entered in the catalogue under Huxley's name? 

 This he thought was the least form of encourage- 

 ment and recognition that amateurs, like himself, 

 were entitled to. Upon being reassured on this 

 point, namely, that henceforth his specimens 

 would be entered as belonging to the * Brown 



