1915- Richard Manliffe Barrijigton. 20 r 



with a delightful visit to the hospitable house at Fassaroe. 

 To the Irish 'Naturalist his help and friendship were in- 

 valuable. Of his constant support to this journal — as a 

 guarantor, a frequent contributor, and a generous friend 

 in other w^ays, as in the special celebration of its coming 

 of age " in which he was the moving spirit in April, 191 3 — 

 it would be difficult indeed to say too much. The Irish 

 Society for the Protection of Birds also owes more than 

 can well be expressed to the interest he always showed in 

 its work. And at home, in the midst of his little family, 

 he seized every opportunity, whether indoors or in the 

 fields, to pour out instruction on some branch of his favourite 

 study, having no firmer faith in his mind than that such 

 knowledge is a lasting joy to all who possess it. 



His writings during those years generally took the form 

 of short notes recording occurrences of lighthouse birds, 

 and it is probable that he will be better remembered through 

 some earlier ones, like the admirable essay on the Intro- 

 duction of the Squirrel into Ireland, and his remarkable 

 chronicle of the breeding habits of Field Mice in captivity, 

 as well as the story of the finding for the first time in Ireland 

 — or, for that matter, in the British Islands — of a large 

 colony of Hairy -armed Bats. He also contributed a highly 

 interesting list of the birds of Dublin and Wicklow to the 

 British Association Handbook in 1908 ; nor should mention 

 be omitted of his illuminating account in the Irish 

 Naturalist of the astonishing inland bird-rush of the night 

 of March 29-30, 1912. Four obituary articles written for 

 this journal on his friends More, Edward Williams, Hart, 

 and Ussher yield striking evidence of how strongly Bar- 

 rington possessed the " genius for friendship." In some 

 (not strictly biological) papers read to the Statistical 

 Society, such as the ^' Drought of 1887 " and the better- 

 known one on the prices of Irish agricultural produce, his 

 interest in meteorological statistics, and his profound 

 knowledge of practical agriculture must impress all who 

 open them ; and his account of the ascent of Stack-na- 

 Biorrach, St. Kilda, contributed to the Alpine Journal in 

 1913, is well described by one of his most attached friends. 



