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Collection,' he did what he was now well able to 

 afford to do and what he had long intended 

 doing, namely, he presented the specimens to the 

 Museum as a gift. 



On the whole, therefore, the Londoners had 

 proved themselves to be broken reeds. In the 

 early days the last straw, that broke the connection, 

 was their failure to send Brown a single reprint 

 or record of what had been published concerning 

 his discoveries. He saw notices in the local press 

 and in oversea magazines about the discovery of 

 dinosaurs in South Africa, but he had to pay 

 32/- for a bound copy of the Quarterly Journal 

 of the Geological Society in order to see what 

 Huxley had written about the anatomy of his own 

 fossils, and in point of fact to see the names of 

 his first big offspring, namely Euskelesaurus 

 Browni, and Orosaurus (later changed to Orino- 

 saurus). 



These rather galling experiences and disap- 

 pointments that Brown encountered in the pursuit 

 of his researches were bad enough in themselves ; 

 but he felt them all the more because he was so 

 badly in need of some support to bolster up his 

 self -confidence, which was always at stake amongst 

 those village associates who were inclined to 

 ridicule his work. As an example of the sort of 

 criticism and fooling which he had to endure, and 



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