The Migration of Birds, as Observed at Irish Lighthouses and Lightships Including the Original Reports From 1888-97, Now Published for the First Time, and an Analysis of These and of the Previously Published Reports From 1881-87

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Excerpt from The Migration of Birds, as Observed at Irish Lighthouses and Lightships Including the Original Reports From 1888-97, Now Published for the First Time, and an Analysis of These and of the Previously Published Reports From 1881-87: Together With an Appendix Giving the Measurement of About 1600 WingsThe Irish Lights Board was favourably disposed to this inqui from the beginning provided it did not interfere with the duties of the light keepers, and its Officials were, at all times, courteous and anxious to facilitate the collection of statistics.The enormous mass of records to be grappled with was sufficient to occupy an idle man for years, and would have disheartened a busy one like myself, had not Mr C. B. Moffat come to the rescue in 1898. If the accumulation of a more or less chaotic mass of information was mine - its analysis is largely his. The in¿uence of the lunar phases on the number of birds killed striking was first detected by him, and illustrated diagrammatically, and to his ingenuity, scientific caution, and intelligent grasp of facts, not a few of the interest ing conclusions deduced from the above data are directly traceable.To Professor Newton, ers of Cambridge, my thanks are due for many kind words of encouragement, and to my friend Howard Saunders I am indebted in various ways.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.