Two boxes of fragments of egg shells

These fragments came from George Clark’s original find of dodo bones at the Mare aux Songes. They passed from Clark’s daughters to Thomas Parkin and thence to the Whistlers. They have always been believed to be fragments of dodo eggs but in all the years since their discovery, they have never been scientifically tested. If they are from dodos they are unique, but they could be tortoise egg fragments. The bones of an extinct tortoise were also found at the Mare aux Songes