William Eagle Clarke

Dr William Eagle Clarke ISO FLS FRSE PBOU LL.D.

He was originally a civil engineer and surveyor, but later took up natural history as a profession.

He was instrumental in recognizing that lighthouses and lightships were capable of collecting a great deal of migration information.

[1] In 1903 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his main proposer being Ramsay Heatley Traquair.

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William Eagle Clarke
The Eddystone Lantern , October 12, 1901 from a painting by Marian Eagle Clarke, as published in Studies in Bird Migration (1912).