Clare Island Survey

The Clare Island Survey was a multidisciplinary (zoological, botanical, archaeological, and geological) survey of Clare Island, off the west coast of Ireland.

The survey, which followed a similar survey of Lambay Island in 1905 and 1906, was proposed by Robert Lloyd Praeger and in April 1908 a committee was formed to recruit and organise the work of over one hundred scientists from Ireland, England Denmark, Germany and Switzerland and the data collected during three years of field work on the island (1909-1911). The committee members were Robert Lloyd Praeger, Robert Francis Scharff, Richard Manliffe Barrington, Grenville Cole, Nathaniel Colgan and Henry William Lett.

The bulk of the work is concerned with systematic zoology and botany but paid special attention to questions of geographical distribution, dispersal, and ecology and covered antiquities, place-names, family names, geology, climatology, agriculture and meteorology.

The results were published both as A Biological Survey of Clare Island in the County of Mayo, Ireland and of the Adjoining District. Parts 1-68 (part 8 was never published) Dublin Hodges, Figgis, & Co., Ltd., for the Royal Irish Academy, 1911-1915.:The sections are Introduction, Archaeology, Irish Names, Agriculture, Climatology, Geology, Botany, Zoology and as separate parts in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.

The parts are:


 * Part 1 Introduction and General Narrative  Robert John Welch, Robert Lloyd Praeger
 * Part 2. History and Archaeology T. J. Westropp
 * Part 3. Place-Names and Family Names  John Macneill
 * Part 4. Gaelic Plant and Animal Names and Associated Folk-Lore Nathaniel Colgan (also worked on marine mollusca and algae)
 * Part 5. Agriculture and its History James Wilson (Irish naturalist)
 * Part 6 Climatology W. J. Lyons
 * Part 7 Geology  Edward Alexander Newell Arber and Timothy Hallissy
 * Part 8 not published
 * Part 9 Tree growth  Arthur C. Forbes
 * Part 10: Phanerogamia and Pteridophyta Robert Lloyd Praeger (also vegetation map, marine dredging, marine algae, fungi, sponges and mollusca with Hedwig Praeger)
 * Parts 11–12: Musci and Hepaticae  Henry William Lett
 * Part 13 Fungi  Henry Hawley (naturalist)
 * Part 14 Lichens  Annie Lorrain Smith
 * Part 15 Marine Algae  Arthur Disbrowe Cotton
 * Part 16 Fresh-water algae, with a supplement of marine diatoms  William West
 * Part 17 Mammalia  Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton
 * Part 18 Reptilia and Amphibia  Robert Francis Scharff (also worked on Molluscs & woodlice)
 * Part 19 Fish  George Philip Farran (also worked on marine dredging)
 * Part 20 Aves  Richard John Ussher
 * Part 21 Tunicata and Hemichorda  George Philip Farran
 * Part 22 Marine Mollusca  Nathaniel Colgan.
 * Part 23 Land and Fresh-water Mollusca   Arthur Wilson Stelfox
 * Part 24 Hymenoptera  Claude Morley
 * Part 25 Diptera  Percy Hall Grimshaw online here
 * Part 26 Lepidoptera  William Francis de Vismes Kane
 * Part 27 Neuroptera  James Nathaniel Halbert (also worked on other insects (all orders))
 * Part 28 Terrestrial Coleoptera James Nathaniel Halbert
 * Part 29 Aquatic Coleoptyera  William Alexander Francis Balfour Browne (also worked on land beetles and other insects (all orders))
 * Part 30 Hemiptera  James Nathaniel Halbert
 * Part 31 Orthoptera  George Carpenter (also worked on other insects (all orders))
 * Part 32 Apterygota  George Carpenter
 * Part 33 Chilopoda and Diplopoda  William Frederick Johnson (also worked on other insects (all orders))
 * Part 34 Pycnogonida  George Carpenter
 * Part 35 Araneae  Denis Robert Pack-Beresford
 * Part 36 Phalangida  Denis Robert Pack-Beresford
 * Part 37 Arctiscoida  James Murray
 * Part 38 Pseudoscorpiones  Harry Wallis Kew
 * Part 39 Acarinida: Section I: Hydracarina
 * Part 39b Acarinida: Section II Terrestrial and Marine Acarina James Nathaniel Halbert
 * Part 40 Decapoda  George Philip Farran
 * Part 41 Nebaliacea  Walter Medley Tattersall (also marine dredging)
 * Part 42 Amphipoda  Walter Medley Tattersall
 * Part 43 Marine lsopoda and Tanaidacea  Walter Medley Tattersall
 * Part 44 Land and Fresh-Water Isopoda  Nevin Harkness Foster (also worked on birds)
 * Part 45 Marine Entomostraca  George Philip Farran
 * Part 46 Fresh-water Entomostraca  David Joseph Scourfield
 * Part 47 Archiannelida and Polychaeta  Rowland Southern (also marine dredging)
 * Part 48 Gephyrea  Rowland Southern
 * Part 49 Oligochaeta  Rowland Southern
 * Part 50 Hirudinea  Rowland Southern
 * Part 51 Rotifera  Charles F. Rousselet
 * Part 52 Rotifera Bdelloida  James Murray
 * Part 53 Polyzoa  Albert Russell Nichols
 * Part 54 Nemathelmia, Kinorhyncha, and Chaetognatha  Rowland Southern
 * Part 55: Nemertinea  Rowland Southern
 * Part 56 Platyhelmia  Rowland Southern
 * Part 57 Echinodermata  Albert Russell Nichols
 * Part 58 Coelenterata  Jane Stephens
 * Part 59 Marine Porifera  Jane Stephens
 * Part 60 Fresh-water Porifera  Jane Stephens
 * Part 61 and 62 Flagellata and Ciliata  John Samuel Dunkerly (also other Infusoria)
 * Part 63 Mycetozoa  Gulielma Lister
 * Part 64 Foraminifera   Arthur Earland and Edward Heron-Allen
 * Part 65 Foraminifera  G.H. Wailes
 * Part 66. Notes on marine plankton  George Philip Farran
 * Part 67 Marine Ecology Roland Southern
 * Part 68 General Summary  Robert Lloyd Praeger

Nonpublishing participants John Adams (naturalist) (Marine algae); Edward Alexander Newell Arber (Geology); James Bayley Butler (Protozoa); Frederik Børgesen (Marine algae); George W. Chaster (Mollusca); Grenville Cole (Geology), George Fogerty (Archaeology); Thomas Greer (Lepidoptera); David Thomas Gwynne-Vaughan (botany); Arthur William Hill (Botany); John De Witt Hinch (Glacial geology); Stanley Wells Kemp (marine dredging); Matilda Cullen Knowles (lichens, flowering plants, peat deposits); David McArdle (Mosses and hepatics); James Napier Milne (insects); Charles Joseph Patten (birds); Eugène Penard (rhizopods); Walter Mead Rankin (Crustacea and Decapoda); Colin M. Selbie (marine dredging and Crustacea); Otto Stapf (botany); Isaac Swain (geology)