Dry, bird egg. The egg was once in the French Royal collections, and is inscribed in black ink 'Pingouin', the French name for the Great Auk. The inscription was written by Monsieur Dufresne, keeper of the King's cabinet in Paris in the early…
Though born in Aberdeen, William MacGillivray spent his youth in the Hebrides, a group of islands off Scotland’s west coast. Aged 21 he travelled the region, keeping an account of the flora and fauna he observed, as well as the people he met and the…