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Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents United States National Museum. Report of the U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Archives Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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142, pt. 2 34 EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXXII. The Great Auk. ABOUT ONE-QUARTER NATURAL SIZE. From the specimen in the U S. National M.iseum, No. 57338, Wilhelm Schluter, of Halle, Germany, from whom this Auk was procured, givesits history as follows: It was obtained by Mr. Salmin, of Hamburg, from Iceland;by him sold to a merchant of Hamburg, who sold it to Mr. Goetz, of Dresden, whoin turn parted with it to Mr. Schluter. In the U. S. National Museum catalogue of birds it is recorded as t? ad. Eldey,June, 1834. Since the photograph was taken from which the accompanying plate was inadethe specimen has been remounted in a different attitude and shortened between twoand three inches. It is still, like nearly all mounted skins, considerably too long,but could not be shortened any more without cutting the skin, a proceeding that,under the circumstances, was deemed inadmissible. Before remounting a full-sized figure of the specimen was made. Report of National Museum, 1888.—Lucas Plate LXXII
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The Great Auk. EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXXIM. Egg OF THE Great Auk. ABOUT FOUR-FIFTHS NATURAL SIZE. —- From the original in the collection of the U, S. National Museum, No. 15141. The specimen measures 125 by 74. This egg was obtained from the Academyof Natm-al Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa., and was originally in the collection of O.des Murs. It is the egg figured on Plate I, Revue et Magazin de Zoologie. 1863, and the oneto which des Murs refers in the text as having been broken and restored. That desMurs had three eggs of the Great Auk is extremely improbable, as he states that henever even saw more than the two in his possession, and the reference to three iseither a slip of the pen or of memory. The egg seems to have been washed since it was figured, and the freshness of themarkings thereby impaired. Report of National Wluseuni, 1888.—Lucas. PLATE LXXIII.

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