Report on the Migration of Birds in the Spring and Autumn of 1887

This Report contains a summary of the investigations of a Committee reappointed by the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Manchester, in 1887, to consist of Professor Newton, Mr J. A. Harvie-Brown, Mr John Cordeaux, Mr W. Eagle Clarke, Mr R. M. Barrington, and Mr A. G. More, for the purpose of obtaining (with the consent of the Master and Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, the Commissioners of Northern Lights, and the Commissioners of Irish Lights) observations on the Migration of Birds at Lighthouses and Light-ships, and of reporting on the same at Bath in 1888. Mr Cordeaux to be the Secretary.

The returns relating to Scotland have been arranged by Mr J. A. Harvie-Brown; for the East Coast of England, by Mr Cordeaux; for the West Coast of England, by Mr W. Eagle Clarke; and those for the Coasts of Ireland, by Mr R. M. Barrington and Mr A. G. More.

This is the ninth, and final, report issued, and the Committee have much pleasure in stating that one of their number, Mr William Eagle Clarke, of the Museum of Science and Art in Edinburgh, has undertaken the laborious task of reducing the mass of facts collected, from an examination de novo of the whole of the schedules sent in, so as to bring out the general results of their inquiry, both statistically and otherwise, on strictly scientific lines, and in as condensed and clear a method as possible.