EGG OF THE GREAT AUK (Plautus imjienwi 
This Egg was formerly in the possession of M Theibant de Berneaud, of Paris. On October 6th. 1851. Mr. Lancelot Holland 
purchased it from Williams, of Oxford jStreet, for £18, and gave it to his daughter—afterwards Mrs. Henry Wise, who sent it 
for sale to Stevens’ rooms, where it was disposed of on March 12th, 1888, to Mr. James Gardner, of Oxford Street, for £225. 
It afterwards came into the collection of Sir J. H. Greville Smyth, Bart., of Ashton Court, Somerset, after whose death it ,was 
presented by Lady Greville Smyth, to the Bristol Museum. The Egg is depicted the natural size. 
