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Gogga Brown 



which to deck his shelves and excite the envy of 

 his privileged visitors. 



For Alfred Brown was a miser, to the extent 

 that he hoarded and was jealous of his treasures ; 

 but at appropriate times he could be generous 

 and make up his mind to part with his prizes. 

 He was altogether prodigal when it came to 

 spending money on the pursuit of knowledge and 

 the furtherance of science. To a certain extent 

 also, as I have already indicated, he was a recluse, 

 preferring to cut himself off as much as possible 

 from human companionship, seeking only for 

 communion with the Great Architect of Nature. 



Brown was in fact intensely religious, but this 

 scientific saint was as reverent towards the 

 Revelation of the Rocks of Ages, and towards the 

 Inspiration that lay in their fossil contents, as he 

 was to that which, to him, was the Book of Books. 

 His broad enlightened outlook on Science and 

 Religion is therefore worthy of a special study. 



We must remember that Brown began his work 

 of fossil-hunting before the publication of 

 Darwin's epoch-marking Origin of Species. He 

 was therefore quite early in the field in quest of 

 the very data which his illustrious contemporary 

 was busy hewing into the shape of his great 

 Theory of Evolution. The great bulk of Brown's 

 work, however, was done during the heat of the 



