HISTORY OF MANX ORNITHOLOGY xli 
desires to record his full appreciation of the debt due in 
this, as in other branches of science, to Mr. Kermode’s long 
and painstaking labours. Much ornithological matter is 
also contained in the contributions of Mr, J. C. Crellin to 
Yn Inoar Manninagh. 
A valuable contribution to Manx ornithology was fur- 
nished between 1880 and 1887, by the details from light 
stations (principally Langness and the Chickens), incorpor- 
ated in the reports of the British Association Committee, and 
specially should here be mentioned the notes of Mr. Robert 
Clyne, then at the former station. 
Although the work of ‘foreign’ naturalists would, no 
doubt, if undertaken, have rendered Manx ornithology 
fuller and richer, there is still some gratification in observ- 
ing that our knowledge, such as it is, of our birds, as well 
as of our mammals, fishes, and plants, is mainly due to the 
labours of natives of the isle, undertaken in the intervals 
of daily occupation, and in more than usual isolation from 
the resources of science. 
