/library/oar/handle/123456789/41335 2025-12-25T13:38:52Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/40301 Title: Chevalier Antonio Schembri (1813-1872) father of Maltese ornithology Abstract: Antonio Schembri was born in Valletta on the 10th April, 1813 of Gian Battista and Rosa Maria, nee' Monteverde, on the day when the Maltese brig, 'San Nikola' departed from Marsamxett Harbour leaving behind it a plague epidemic which raged for over a year and claimed nearly 5,000 victims. Following this epidemic Antonio's father was appointed Captain of the Quarantine Port where he made a name in this appointment both in Malta and abroad after a long career in the Venetian and Austrian Navy. A brother of Antonio, Gian Battista was a lawyer. A step-brother, anther Gian Battista was the first professor of midwifery in our University and is remembered for the first Cesarean operation to be performed on a woman living in Malta, a step-sister Agnese was an active member of the Historical and Scientific Society during the early part of this century and in her will she left a bursary for the teaching of music from which our children are still benefiting . This shows that Antonio like his brothers and sisters was given a good and sound education. 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/40300 Title: Miscellany Abstract: News from the Malta Ornithological Society. 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/40299 Title: Il-Merill : bulletin of the Malta Ornithological Society no. 09 Abstract: The title of the Society's Bulletin, IL-MERILL, is the Maltese name for the Blue Rock Thrush, Monticola Solitarius, which is one of the few resident species of the Islands. It was chosen as the National Bird of Malta by the local National Section of the international Council for Bird Preservation and has been the emblem of the Malta Ornithological Society since the latter's inception. 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/40298 Title: Golden jubilee of the international council for bird preservation Abstract: The idea of an international organisation tor the protection of bird, originated from ,Dr. T. Gilber Pearson, President of the National Association of Auduibon Societies, U.S.A. In 1922 he made an extensive tour of Europe, met many ornithologists and spoke at meetings of national societies for the protection of birds in various countries. During the course of his visit he found that little was known of bird protection in America, and indeed bird protectors in Europe had little knowledge of what was going on in other countries. Dr. Pearson summed up the situation as follows: "How many people in the United States and Canada know what the Germans or the Dutch or the Japanese are doing to save their birds; or what methods they are employing in the undertakings? Surely there is much we can learn from each other. Why not effect all international organisation which, among other thing, will further stimulate interest in bird protection by the interchange of publication and by occasional conventions where representatives of different countries can meet in council? Also there are a number of problems that are distinctly international such as oil pollution of the high seas and the export and import of birds or their feathers.'' 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z