258 The Great Auk. [Sess. 



United States. 



Cincinnati. — " Some bones have gone to the Cincinnati So- 

 ciety of Natural History " (Mr Frederic A. Lucas, in litt. 31st 

 January 1897). These bones formed part of the collection 

 made at Funk Island by the United States Grampus expedition 

 in 1887. 



New York : Central Park Natwral History Museum. — There 

 are a number of bones of Alca impennis Linn, preserved in a 

 box in this museum. These bones are part of the collection 

 made by the United States Grampus expedition to Funk Island 

 in 1887. I got this information when I visited this museum 

 in May 1889. 



Eggs. 

 British Isles. 



Bristol : Ashton Court. — The egg which belonged to Mrs 

 Wise, 1 and which was sold at Stevens' Auction Booms, London, 

 on 12th March 1888, and bought by a dealer in natural his- 

 tory specimens, Oxford Street, London, for £225, is said to 

 have been sold to Sir Greville Smyth, Ashton Court, for 

 £315. 



Calke Abbey, Derbyshire. — This egg belonged to the collection 

 of Mr Yarrell, who purchased it in either Paris or Boulogne 

 for two francs. There are two versions of how he became 

 possessed of it. The one is that related by the late Mr. Ej 

 Champley from information given him by the late Mr Fred- 

 erick Bond, and which appears at p. 105, 'The Great Auk: 

 its History, Archaeology, and Bemains ' ; and the other is that 

 by Professor A. Newton of Cambridge, who, writing to ' Nat- 

 ure ' in August 1894, gives what is described as the "true" 

 account. He says : " It was found hanging on a string with 

 a number of other eggs in a curiosity-shop of mean appearance 

 in Paris. On asking its price, Mr Yarrell was told it was two 

 francs, on account of its size. The money was paid." After 

 Mr Yarrell's decease it was purchased in Mr Stevens' Booms in 

 1856 by the late Mr James Gardiner for the late Mr Frederick 



1 'Trans. Edin. Field Nat. and Micro. Soc.,' vol. ii. p. 114. See also ante, p. 237. 



