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Egg

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).

Classified name:

SPRI theme	natural history
Current place name	Antarctic regions
UDC	591.465.1 : 598.45
Geographic UDC	(*7)
Getty AAT	eggs

Number of items:

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.

Dimensions:

Length: 71mm, circumference: 195mm

Museum catalogue: Antarctic Collection

Egg

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