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SALE OF MOUNTED SPECIMENS AT 
STEVENS’ ROOMS. 
No. of No. of Price given. 
Sale. Bird. Date of Sale. Name of Purchaser. £ s. d- 
1.. I... 6 May, 1818..... 
6.. II... 27 April, 1869.. Mr. Thomas Cooke. 94 10 O 
12.. III...23 April, 1895. .Royal Scottish Museum, 
Edinburgh.. 350 O O 
20.. IV. .17 April. 1902..Mr. J. B. Nichols . 315 O O 
SALES BY PUBLIC AUCTION, ELSEWHERE 
THAN AT STEVENS’ ROOMS. 
No. of Where Name of Price 
Sale. Eggs and Birds. Date of Sale. sold. Purchaser, given. 
27..Bird I...5 May, 1806..At the 
Leverian 
Museum, 
Blackfriars, Mr. E. 
London Donovan 10 10 O 
28..Bird V. and 6 May, 1819..At the Dr. 
Egg XXV. Egyptian Leach, 
Temple, for the 
Piccadilly, British 
London Museum 16 15 6 
,, ..Egg XXVI.3June, 1819.. do. do. 12/- or 17/- 
29. .Eggs IX. & X.8 May, 1880..Messrs, 
Dowell’s 
Rooms, Mr. R. 
Edinburgh Small 1 12 O 
30. .Eggs XII. & XIII. .. 14 Mar., 1894. .The Little 
Hermitage, Mr. 
near Wallace 
Rochester Hewett.. 1 16 O 
31..Egg XVIII.30 Jan., 1908.. Messrs. 
Debenliam, 
Storr Rowland 
& Son. Ward, 
London Ltd. 110 O O 
The question is so often asked as to the number of skins 
(this of course includes mouuted specimens) and eggs of the 
Great Auk that may be said to be still in existence. No one can 
answer this question better than Mr. Edward Bidwell, and in 
reply to a letter of mine, lie has kindly informed me, that so far 
as he knows, there are 80 skins, and 73 eggs. Of these eggs 
he has photographs of 71 taken to scale under his personal 
supervision. 
