33 [Vol. xlii. 



THE TENTH OOLOGICAL DINNER. 



The Tenth Oological Dinner was held at Pagani's 

 Restaurant on Wednesday, 14t]i September, 1921. Lord 

 Rothschild took the Chair at 7 o'clock, fifty members and 

 their guests being present. The principal feature o£ the 

 evening was an Exhibition of the eggs of the Alcidse, 

 especially Guillemots ; also of eggs of game-birds. 



The Chairman announced that, owing to the success which 

 had attended these gatherings, it had been decided by the 

 Committee to hold three dinners in 1922, particulars of 

 which will be duly circulated. 



Mr. M ASSET exhibited three eggs of the Great Auk with 

 the following histories : — 



(a) One of four eggs sold at Stevens', 14th July, 1865, 

 from the Royal College of Surgeons. 



(&) An egg acquired at a sale near Rochester, and sold 

 with another damaged egg for 36s., but which fetched £273 

 at Stevens^, 24:th April, 1894. These specimens were origin- 

 ally the property of Mr. Hulkes, a brewer, who had them 

 from his grandfather. 



(c) This egg in the year 1855 was in the possession of 

 the Baron Henri de Veye. It passed through several 

 ownerships, and finally sold at Stevens^ for £252, 29th Oct., 

 1901, from the collection of the late Baron Charles 

 d'Hamonville. 



