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" As to the methods to be adopted for obtaining information 

 for the purposes of the enquiry. 

 " The proposals may be divided thus : — 

 "Firstly, that (by permission which it is hoped may be 

 obtained from the Master and Elder Brethren of the 

 Trinity House) information should be gathered from 

 the keepers of Lighthouses and Lightships on the 

 Southern and Eastern coasts of England. 



" That this information should be obtained by means 

 of Schedules issued to the Light-keepers, who it is hoped 

 will fill in the information required and supplement 

 their notes by forwarding, in specially prepared en- 

 velopes, the wings and legs of the birds killed at the 

 Lights. 



" Your Committee is of opinion that the information 

 which it is hoped to obtain thus will be extremely important, 

 especially in view of the fact that, in order to make the 

 present enquiry of fall value, the facts elicited should form 

 an extension of those obtained by the Migration Committee 

 of the British Association as worked out by Mr. Clarke. 



" Your Committee, acting on the best possible advice, 

 begs to recommend that, in order to make this part of the 

 enquiry a real success, small rewards should be offered to 

 the light-keepers for caref ully filled in schedules and properly 

 labelled specimens of wings. 



tl Secondly, that information should be gathered from as 

 large a number as possible of reliable observers in 

 each county of England and Wales. That this inform- 

 ation should be gathered by means of specially prepared 

 schedules to be filled in and returned week by week. 

 "It is hoped that by these means sufficient facts may be 

 collected to enable your Committee to trace the movements 

 of the species which winter abroad and build in England or 

 AYales from the times at which they arrive off our coasts 

 until they commence to nest. 



" Funds. 

 " It was suggested at first that very little money would 



