 Haughton regularly invited Broom to his farm where he housed a personal collection of fossils he had recovered from his property.Kitching and his three sons, James, Ben, and Scheepers, regularly joined Broom on field trips around Graaff-Reinet and Nieu-Bethesda collecting fossils.Broom was also close friends with Raymond Dart and had contributed to the discovery and research of hominin fossils, namely of "Australopithecus" and "Paranthropus", that had been recovered from Sterkfontein and Makapansgat.