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Gogga Brown 



Brown certainly did not himself set much store 

 by what had happened in his school-boy days. 

 It was by his work and not by the accidents of 

 birth and rearing that he, like most men, wanted 

 to be judged. He even went so far as to destroy 

 the first forty-seven pages of his Journal, con- 

 sidering the facts contained therein, however 

 much they might have interested us, as quite 

 immaterial to his own record. A short note, 

 entered late in life in his diary, merely mentions 

 the fact that, at the age of ten, he was at school 

 under a loving mother's care, and that when a 

 little older he had two teachers, not honoured by 

 having their names recorded, but significantly well 

 qualified to teach in that they were ' Christian/ 

 All that we can say about his boyhood then is that 

 it was cast within an English mould, and that 

 probably a fairly humble one with strong religious 

 influences. 



In this connection there is a reference made to 

 Brown in the Life and Letters of T. H. Huxley, 

 which is worth repeating. Adverting to his 

 father's scientific activities in the year 1866, 

 Leonard Huxley makes the following statement : 

 In palaeontology he published papers on the 

 ' Vertebrate remains from the Jarrow Colliery, 

 Kilkenny ' ; on a new * Telerpeton from Elgin/ 

 and on some * Dinosaurs from South Africa/ 



