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University of that capital in 1818. The present specimens, from their 
broken condition, may have been thought unworthy of a place in the 
Museum, and been accordingly rejected, when they may have fallen 
into Mr. Moule’s hands. This of course is but conjectural, though it 
seems likely enough, for Dufresne is known to have had two or three 
specimens.* If so, there cannot be much doubt that these eggs like 
others which we know to have existed so long in collections, must have 
come from the Newfoundland seas—as it is almost impossible that they 
could have been brought from Iceland.” 
EGG VI. (Sale number eight.) 
An egg of the Great Auk, on December 13th, 1887, Sale catalogue No. 
7573. 
Egg YI. - “ Lot 200a. A very fine example of the extremely 
rare EGG OF THE GREAT AUK” 
Bought by Mr. Leopold Field, of Harlesden, 
Middlesex, for £168 O O 
This egg-one of the ten discovered in the Museum of the 
Royal College of Surgeons in 18(51—formed Lot 142, at the auction 
in these rooms, on July lltli, 18(55, when it was purchased by the 
Rev. Henry Burney for £31 10 0 —vide p. 7. 
The egg is now in the collection of Mr. Herbert Massey, of 
Didsbury, Cheshire. 
EGG XI. (Sale number nine.) 
An egg of the Great Auk, on March 12th, 1888. 
A notice in sale catalogue No. 7636 reads as follows: —“ The 
Collection of Eggs, the property of Mrs Wise, including a fine 
example of the Great Auk, in splendid condition.” 
Egg XL - “Lot 213. A very fine example of the Eg<r 
of the GREAT AUK.” 
Bought by Mr. James Gardner, of Oxford Street, for - £225 O O 
Mr. Bid well informs me that this Egg was formerly in the 
possession of M. Theibant de Berneaud, of Paris, during which time a 
drawing was made of it by M. Moquin-Tandon. On Oct. 6, 1851, Mr. 
Lancelot Holland purchased it from Williams, of Oxford Street, for 
£18, and gave it to his daughter—afterwards Mrs. Henry Wise, of 
Brockham, near Reigate, and subsequently of Charlton Court, 
Steyniug. Williams obtained the egg from Paris—Mrs. Wise’s Egg 
Register says “from the Museum,” but it is believed that it came 
from Lefevre, a dealer in P^ris. 
The egg afterwards passed into the collection of Sir J. H. Greville 
Smyth, Bart., of Ashton Court, Somerset, and after his death, was 
presented by Lady Greville Smyth to the Bristol Museum—together 
with the late Sir Greville’s collection of eggs. 
