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Gogga Brown 



scientific heights than any of his collegiate 

 contemporaries of higher status. Even if he did 

 at one time wash scientific bottles, he lived to 

 make ample amends by filling them with the choice 

 wine of discovery. As regards his Latin and 

 Greek there is no need to make any guesses ; it 

 is clear from his command of words that he was 

 an excellent classical scholar. 



His foot-note limits itself to an expression of 

 his just indignation at the patronizing support 

 Murchison claimed to have given him. Murchison 

 certainly wrote long encouraging letters to Brown 

 inviting him to send specimens, but they unfor- 

 tunately contained rash promises to send books, 

 memoirs and addresses in return, only a paltry 

 few of which were ever fulfilled. He thus failed 

 to provide Brown with that intellectual food for 

 which he craved throughout his life, and which 

 scientists of a later date found was the only 

 incentive he required to make him continue his 

 researches. Not only that but Murchison was 

 somewhat remiss about acknowledging receipt of 

 his fossils, and actually appears to have mislaid 

 a batch of them, considering them presumably, 

 if not just rubbish, at least of no great value. 



With regard to the offer of money, which 

 Brown would have welcomed in his early days 

 but could not stoop to ask for, he is equally 



