
Museum catalogue: Antarctic Collection
Egg
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Accession no.: | N: 39b | ||||||||||
Object name: | Egg | ||||||||||
Title: | Egg | ||||||||||
Description: | An Adelie penguin (pygoscelis adeliae) egg. One of two housed together in a cardboard box (originally addressed to Theodore Hamblin Ltd. and with stamps dating from 1940). The egg may have been collected in 1912 (semi-legible labels on the eggs may give this date). | ||||||||||
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Number of items: | 1 | ||||||||||
Full description: |
An Adélie penguin (pygoscelis adeliae) egg, with a label stuck over the drilled hole, and an ink inscription written directly onto the shell. |
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