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Gogga Brown 



Time passed and Brown's patience with the 

 Parisians was naturally becoming severely taxed. 

 It is not surprising, therefore, to find that at this 

 period he was beginning to accept overtures on 

 behalf of the Imperial Museum in Vienna. He 

 was being overwhelmed by the amount of new 

 material he had collected in the interval, so that 

 he had to get some outlet for it. Besides, the 

 arrangement with the Parisians had not worked 

 too smoothly or too satisfactorily from Brown's 

 point of view. All the correspondence had to 

 be translated, for Brown was no French scholar, 

 and he was not the man to do his letter-writing 

 in such fierce lime-light. He certainly had received 

 from Paris a fine collection of fossil shells from 

 the beds of the Seine, and, what pleased him most 

 of all and practically satisfied him, a set of * choice 

 volumes ' on geology and palaeontology. But he 

 had not had any report on his fossils nor any 

 repayment of his outlay in forwarding them. It 

 is true that he eventually received an excellent 

 account of his specimens, which had at last 

 been studied by P. Fischer, but this took the 

 unconscionable time of eight months to reach 

 him. Addressed to him in 'Afrique-Australe/ it 

 had gone on a trip to Australia, before it was 

 finally delivered to him ! 



