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Legacy
Praeger’s legacy lives on through his exceptional professionalism, which he showed during his librarian career. By age thirty-five, he displayed great organization skills in cataloguing, which “has never been equalled in Ireland”. One of his accomplishments in the field was ordering “the National Library’s vast collection of maps”.

Surveys
Praeger planned The Lambay Island Survey in 1909 and contributed “90 new species to the Irish flora and fauna” ; five of these “species were new to science”. The success of this survey led a committee of Irish naturalists to ask Praeger to complete the Clare Island Survey. Praeger’s work on the Flowering Plants in this survey analyses “the dispersal power of plants”. The most notable discovery is the Pisonidae worm by Rowland Southern. Southern dedicated this new genus to Praeger in his work Archiannelida and Polychaeta. In 1988, the Royal Irish Academy proposed a New Clare Island Survey.

Grants
“The RIA Robert Lloyd Praeger Fund” still exists today “to assist fieldwork in Irish natural science”. Since 1958, the fund has provided roughly three hundred and sixty grants to “natural historians” for modest fieldwork initiatives around Ireland.

Literary works
The Way that I Went (1937) is an autobiographical book. For Praeger, the book serves as “a kind of thank you offering…for seven decades of robust physical health”.

Some of his other publications are:


 * 1) *Open air studies in botany first edition (1897)
 * 2) *Irish topographical botany (1901)
 * 3) *An Account of the Sempervivum Group (1932)
 * 4) *A populous solitude  (1941)
 * 5) *The Irish Landscape (1953)

An Taisce
Praeger was the driving factor behind establishing “An Taisce in 1948”. In his speech, he mentions the issue of ribbon development as the “continuous line of houses” blocking out pleasant glimpses of the vast wilderness behind them, which will affect tourism. In 2022, An Taisce produced a Clean air strategy for Ireland and a Climate action plan in 2023. Thus, to this day, An Taisce’s policies have allowed for the continuation of work for Ireland’s conservation and Praeger’s legacy.