. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . 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 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 th
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . 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 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 Egg of the Great Auk. FIRE-MAKING APPARATUS IN THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. By Walter Hough. Man in his originals seems to be a thing unarmed and naked, and unable to helpitself, as needing the aid of many things; therefore Prometheus makes haste to findout fire, which suppediates and yields comfort and help in a manner to all humanwants and necessities; so that if the soul be the form of forms, and the hand be iheinstrument of instruments, fire deserves well to be called the succor of succors, orthe help of helps, that infinite ways afford aid and assistance to all labors and themechanical arts, and to the sciences themselves.—Bacon.— Wisdom of the ancients,Prometheus, Works, vol. iii. Lond., 1825, p. 72. There is a prevalent belief that to make fire by rubbing two piecesof wood is very difficult. It is not so; the writer has repeatedly madefire in thirty seconds by the twirling sticks and in five seconds with thebow drill. Many travelers relate that they have seen various peoples
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