The Clare island Survey was a multidisciplinary (zoological, botanical, archaeological,and geological) survey of Clare Island an 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 separateparts 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 (with Hedwig Praeger) vegetation map, marine dredging, marine algae, fungi, sponges and mollusca)
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 Notes on marine plankton George Philip Farran
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 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)