Blaskets all published by the
Royal Irish Academy but most of his scientific papers are on
birds. His best known work is ''The migration of birds, as observed at Irish
lighthouses
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
Lighthouses mar ...
and lightships including the original reports from 1888 to 1897, now published for the first time, and an analysis of these and of the previously put together with an appendix giving the measurements of about 1600 wings'' London : R.H. Porter
Only 350 copies of this 667 page work were printed.
Barrington was one of the leaders of the
Royal Irish Academy Rockall
Rockall () is an uninhabitable granite islet situated in the North Atlantic Ocean. The United Kingdom claims that Rockall lies within its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and is part of its territory, but this claim is not recognised by Ireland. ...
expedition of 1896 with
Robert Lloyd Praeger
Robert Lloyd Praeger (25 August 1865 – 5 May 1953) was an Irish naturalist, writer and librarian.
Biography
From a Unitarian background, he was born and raised in Holywood, County Down. He attended the school of the Reverend McAlister and t ...
and
John A. Harvie Brown of
Dunipace
Dunipace is a village in the west of the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The village is south of Stirling and north-west of Falkirk. The village is situated on the north bank of the River Carron and adjoins the town of Denny, to the south of ...
(1844–1916), a Scottish gentleman naturalist.
[John Wilson Foster, Helena C. G. Chesney (1998]
''Nature in Ireland: a scientific and cultural history'', p. 269
"Barrington had an interest in travel and climbed in Switzerland and Canada. He visited Rockall in 1896 with Praeger, Harvie-Brown and others on an expedition partly financed by the Royal Irish Academy and partly by Barrington and Harvie-Brown."
His collection of bird specimens (wings and legs of birds collected by light-keepers) stored in paper envelopes are conserved in the
National Museum of Ireland and the
Ulster Museum
The Ulster Museum, located in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast, has around 8,000 square metres (90,000 sq. ft.) of public display space, featuring material from the collections of fine art and applied art, archaeology, ethnography, treasure ...
.
Barrington was a
Fellow
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In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements.
Within the context of higher education ...
of the
Linnean Society
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, a Member of the
British Ornithologists' Union, and of the
British Association
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Committee for obtaining Observations on the Migration of Birds at Light- houses and Lightships formed to study
bird migration. He was also interested in mammals.
See also
*
Amy Barrington teacher, scientist and family historian
*
Charles Barrington mountaineer
References
*
Irish Naturalist
''The Irish Naturalist'' was a scientific journal that was published in Dublin, Ireland, from April 1892 until December 1924.
History
The journal owed its establishment to the efforts of several leading Dublin naturalists, notably George ...
24: 193.
*
Journal of Botany 1915:36
*James Britten & Gerorge S. Boulger 1931 "Bibliographical Index of Deceased British and Irish Botanists" Ed. 2, 2
Some Irish naturalists: a biographical note-book
External links
HabitasPartial bibliography
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Irish ornithologists
19th-century Irish botanists
1849 births
1915 deaths
People from Bray, County Wicklow
Year of birth uncertain
20th-century Irish botanists