Recognition and Comradeship 



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He knew that Brown would not now require 

 very much persuasion to lend his fossils, but he 

 also realized that he had his limits and would 

 enforce his stipulations. He was soon to learn 

 what a stickler Brown was for the paraphernalia 

 of registered post, which was an expensive item 

 for these heavy stone parcels — how he would 

 insist on getting receipts, and would not fail to 

 send reminders when the period of the loan had 

 been exhausted. 



Broom therefore began cautiously by asking for 

 some little * jaw ' that he needed to complete the 

 story of some fossil he was writing up. Then he 

 would ask for the bones of the skeleton of one 

 of Brown's new beasts, which he wanted to 

 describe and name after him to his everlasting 

 honour. Finally and without too much trouble 

 he was able to coax Brown to send him his whole 

 big kettle of fossil-fish. 



It is true that it paid Broom to nurse his protege 

 with all this care, for he undoubtedly added 

 tremendously to his own scientific stature by thus 

 standing on Brown's back. But, if by so doing 

 he was helped to get on to the pinnacle of fame 

 where he now stands, he gave more than he got, 

 for he pulled Brown up to the same height as 

 he then stood at and rescued him from utter 

 oblivion. This is not the place to enumerate the 



