| Description | Secretary's In Letters: from Alfred BROWN, Aliwal North, Orange River, Cape Colony, South Africa, to Sir Roderick Murchison, President of the Geological Society, 8 Jan 1866. Re: Description of large fossil bones, possibly reptilian, along with teeth (possibly Dicynodon and Iguanodon) which he has found and wishes to send to the Society. |
| Administrative History | The bones were sent to Roderick Murchison who passed them to Thomas Henry Huxley, forming the basis of the paper: T H Huxley, "On some Remains of large Dinosaurian Reptiles from the Stormberg Mountains, South Africa", Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, vol 23 (1867), pp1-6. Huxley named the dinosaur Euskelosaurus brownii in honour of Brown. |