INTRODUCTION — continued 



of this humble man of science he has helped me 

 to make a hero out of what has hitherto passed 

 as common clay, and he has made me feel that 

 my own task has been worth while. He has 

 answered in anticipation the obvious question, 

 who is this Alfred Brown? 



At the end of this little volume I have set out 

 a list of the many new fossil-animals that Brown 

 discovered in the Stormberg Rocks and in the 

 immediate vicinity of Aliwal North. As this is 

 not a scientific memoir, I must apologize for the 

 amount of Greek in which these credentials of 

 his are necessarily couched. Fortunately these 

 tongue-twisting names need not be read in 

 connection with my story, the text of which is, 

 through the courtesy of the South African 

 Museum, interspersed with several illustrations 

 which show the nature of Brown s exploits in 

 the fossil world. 



Almost every one of the animals which he 

 discovered is remarkable in one way or another, 

 and each find represents a victory for Science in 

 her search for Truth. The sum total of his 

 discoveries, moreover, constitutes a most credit- 

 able achievement for one man, especially when one 

 knows the handicaps under which he worked. For 

 this contribution to knowledge, happily, he has 

 already become immortalized by having his name 



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