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limited permit to bag his fossils ; that his stone 

 implements were Royal game, which he reserved 

 for his own delight and edification. Was he 

 himself not an acknowledged authority since 1 870, 

 when he wrote a paper on the subject ? Had he 

 not spent many pounds on the hire of carts and 

 horses to take him as far afield as Basutoland to 

 study Bushman paintings ? Did the fact that he 

 himself had bent his back in dusty caves to dig 

 up history really count for nothing ? 



Broom got a shock and hastened to make peace 

 with his difficult laird, sending him a double- 

 barrelled apology in the shape of two letters 

 posted one after the other. In these, with his 

 usual tact and kindness, he assured Brown that 

 neither he nor Peringuey wished to deprive him 

 of any of the credit for his discoveries, but rather 

 wished to pay him a compliment by drawing 

 attention to some of his rarer specimens in the 

 forthcoming publication. He even flattered him 

 by telling him that " Dr. Peringuey like yourself 

 has been collecting for many years, and the 

 collection of implements which he has got 

 together in the South African Museum is the 

 best in the Colony. Yours is, I think, the second 

 best. Of course in one respect yours is the most 

 valuable, namely, that you have careful records of 

 all the finds/* He then went on to advise Brown 



