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from Theodore Schultz, in 1857, he then residing at Neuhaldensleben, 
Saxony, (a short description of which appears in ‘ Cabanis,’ January, 
1860). Schultz purchased it from a person of the same name then 
residing at Leipzig. He received it with six others from Iceland.” 
This egg is now in the collection of Mr. Hugh Gurney Barclay, of 
Colney Hall, Norwich. 
EGG VIII. (Sale number twenty-two.) 
An egg of the Great Auk, on May 19tli, 1904. 
Sale catalogue No. 10,825, 
Egg VIII. - “ Lot A. An Egg of the Great Auk.” 
Bought in for.- - £200 O O 
This egg the property of Mr. Heatley Noble, of Temple Combe, 
Henley-on-Thames, was put up for auction at Stevens’ on April 27th, 
1869. As the historical description of the egg given in the above 
catalogue of the first portion of Mr. Heatley Noble’s collection had 
some slight errors in it, subsetpieDtly corrected at the sale of the final 
portion of the collection on March 16th, 1905, I have thought it better 
to defer recording its history until the latter sale. 
EGG VIII. (Sale number twenty-three.) 
An egg of the Great Auk, on March 16th, 1905. 
Described in the sale catalogue No. 10,964 as “a fine specimen of the 
Great Auk’s egg.” 
Egg VIII. - “Lot A. GREAT AUK’S EGG. 
This egg was acquired by the late Mr. 
A. D. Bartlett from either Dunn or Mr. 
Hoy, about 1838. It was sold by him in 
1842 to Mr. E. Maude for £2, and 
repurchased in or about 1851 ; after which 
it was sold to Dr. Nathaniel Trougliton in 
1852, for £5 (with a bird for £28) ; on 
April 27th [1869] Dr. Troughton’s 
collection was sold at Stevens’ Auction 
Rooms, and the egg was bought by the 
second Lord Garvagh for £64, Lot 253. 
After Lord Garvagh’s death in 1871, the egg 
passed into the possession of the Dowager 
