Roc Egg Is Worth £3OO
Housed in the National Museum at Melbourne since 1862, an egg Whose volume compares to that of 148 hen egs is to be X-rayed to ascertain its contents. It is the egg of an extinct ostrich-like bird colloquially called the roc, and known to science as the Aepyornis. / Directors' of the museum said the X-ray«would be made as a result of a letter from a Belgian scientific writer, who had asked for details of the egg for a treatise he was preparing on the number of such eggs in existence. The estimated value of the egg was £3OO.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 19, 1 August 1949, Page 7
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103Roc Egg Is Worth £300 Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 19, 1 August 1949, Page 7
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