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Egg VII. - - “Lot 143. Ditto.” 
Purchased by Mr. A. W. Crichton, 
of Broadwater Hall, Shropshire, for £29 O O 
This egg passed afterwards into the collection of his brother-in- 
law, Thomas, 4th Baron Lilford, and formed one of the five eggs which 
were at one time in Lord Lilford’s possession. *For a further account 
of two others of these eggs cf. sale on July 2nd. 1880, pp. 9 and 10. 
The late Professor Newton's copy of the sale catalogue contains a 
note in his handwriting, stating that “ the four eggs at the above sale 
were from the set of ten eggs discovered in the Royal College of 
Surgeons.” 
These ten unrecorded eggs of the Great Auk, were discovered in 
the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, on December 
12th, 1861, by Professor Newton. When or how they came into the 
establishment, there was no record, The College of Surgeons retained 
three, three of the eggs were sold or exchanged to Mr, Robert 
Champley, of Scarborough, and the remaining four formed the above 
sale in these rooms. 
EGG VIII. and MOUNTED SPECIMEN II. 
(Sale number six.) 
An egg of the Great Auk, and a mounted specimen of the bird, on 
April 27th, 1869. It is stated in the sale catalogue No. 3187 that they 
were “from the well-known Collection of British Bird Skins and Eggs 
formed by N. Troughton, Esq., of Coventry.” 
Egg VIII. - “Lot 253. The Great Auk, a magnificent 
Specimen.” 
Sold to Lord Garvagh, of Garvagh Hall, Londonderry, 
Ireland, according to Mr. Bond, for £60 O O 
according to Professor Newton for £64 O O 
I am quite unable to say which of the two amounts is the right 
one. Mr. Frederick Bond’s copy of the sale catalogue (now in Mr. 
Edward Bidwell's set) mentions sixty pounds as the price paid for the 
egg, and Mr. Bond was present at the sale and bought some of the 
smaller lots. Professor Newton, however, who was well known for 
his extreme accuracy in all matters of detail, records .the price as 
sixty-four pounds. Mr. Henry Stevens is unable to throw any light on 
the matter, informing me that when he took over the business, now 
many years ago, he found the old records of the sales in such a 
dilapidated condition from damp and neglect, that he was forced to 
have them destroyed. 
*[I have ati interesting picture [a photograph) of these 5 eggs, grouped together, 
which I purchased of Rowland Ward, Etd., Piccadilly, Eotidon.— 1'. P ] 
