PREFATORY NOTE- continued 



friendly spirit and secured some of his fossil finds 

 for scientific description. In establishing his own 

 world-wide fame as a palaeontologist, Broom was 

 thus able to do some measure of justice to Brown 

 by attaching his name to some of the more striking 

 of his finds. Nobody could get his archaeological 

 collections from him, and as a result the probably 

 priceless labours of fifty years have been rendered 

 largely valueless. I know of no more striking case 

 than Brown's of the tireless scientific collector at 

 last turned miser of his finds — to his own dis- 

 advantage and the loss of science. He has left 

 an enormous diary kept over a period of sixty 

 years, and from this mass of evidence Professor 

 Drennan has compiled this account of a man who 

 both psychologically and scientifically richly 

 deserved this extended notice. He is a sort of 

 Silas Marner of science, but with no after-ray of 

 sunshine, and only deepening gloom to the end. 

 But for his bad luck in not getting recognition for 

 his work in his earlier years, Brown's name might 

 have ranked with the greatest of the princely 

 collectors in South African science. 



Professor Drennan's story is well worth telling, 

 and loses nothing in the manner of his telling. 



J. C. Smuts. 



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