254 The Great Auk. [Sess. 



March 1S97, "The late Lord Lilford generously gave to our 

 Museum the skeleton of Alca impennis which had been 

 mounted from bones obtained on Funk Island by Mr Milne." 1 



The skeleton mentioned in former lists as at Lilford Hall, 

 Oundle, must now be recorded as above. 



Edinburgh. — The skeleton in the Museum of Science and 

 Art was built up from remains found at Funk Island by the 

 United States Grampus expedition in 1887. It was obtained 

 by Mr Edward Gerrard, jun., of London, from the authorities 

 at the United States National Museum, Washington, in 

 exchange for some natural history specimens. 



Germany. 



Dresden. — Writing me on the 9th February 1889, Dr A. B. 

 Meyer, Director of the Royal Zoological Museum, says : " This 

 Museum contains, besides the skeleton of Alca impennis Linn, 

 which you mention in your valuable work at p. 82, detached 

 bones of the same, which would constitute an over-complete 

 skeleton. These bones were bought by me, together with the 

 bones of which I combined a skeleton, as you note at p. 100 " 

 (' The Great Auk : its History, Archaeology, and Remains ')• 



United States. 



Cambridge, Mass. : Museum of Comparative Zoology. — In a 

 letter dated 31st January 1897, Mr Frederic A. Lucas, 

 Osteologist at the National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 

 Washington, informs me that one of the skeletons prepared 

 from the collection of the United States Grampus expedition 

 is now in the above Museum. This skeleton must not be 

 confused with the Mummy Great Auk also in the Cambridge 

 collection (see ' Trans. Edin. Field Nat. and Micro. Soc.,' vol. ii. 

 p. 110). At p. 515 of the Report of the United States National 

 Museum, Washington, 1887-88, by Mr Frederic A. Lucas, it 

 it mentioned that this skeleton was presented to the Museum 

 at Cambridge, Mass. 



New York : American Museum of Natural History near the 

 ■Central Park — There is in this Museum a skeleton prepared 



1 Now Professor J. Milne of earthquake fame. 



