EGG OF THE GREAT AUK (Plautus impennis). 
This Egg of the Great Auk is one of the ten discovered in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, on 
December 12, 1861. It was put up for auction at J. C. Stevens’ Rooms, 38 King Street, Covent Garden, on July 11, 1865, and 
was then bought for £29 by the Rev. G. W. Braikenridge, of Clevedon, Somerset, after whose decease, the egg was soli on 
May 18, 1884, toMr. Edward Bidwell, of Fonnereau House, Twickenham, who disposed of it in April, 1911, to Mr. Thomas Parkin, 
of Fairseat, High Wickham, Hastings. The egg is depicted the natural size. 
