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 PraegerPart 2. History and Archaeology T. J. WestroppPart 3. Place-Names and Family Names John MacneillPart 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 LyonsPart 7 Geology Edward Alexander Newell Arber and Timothy HallissyPart 8 not publishedPart 9 Tree growth Arthur C. ForbesPart 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 LettPart 13 Fungi Henry Hawley (naturalist)Part 14 Lichens Annie Lorrain SmithPart 15 Marine Algae Arthur Disbrowe CottonPart 16 Fresh-water algae, with a supplement of marine diatoms William WestPart 17 Mammalia Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-HamiltonPart 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 UssherPart 21 Tunicata and Hemichorda George Philip FarranPart 22 Marine Mollusca Nathaniel Colgan.Part 23 Land and Fresh-water Mollusca Arthur Wilson StelfoxPart 24 Hymenoptera Claude MorleyPart 25 Diptera Percy Hall Grimshaw online herePart 26 Lepidoptera William Francis de Vismes KanePart 27 Neuroptera James Nathaniel Halbert (also worked on other insects (all orders))Part 28 Terrestrial Coleoptera James Nathaniel HalbertPart 29 Aquatic Coleoptyera William Alexander Francis Balfour Browne (also worked on land beetles and other insects (all orders))Part 30 Hemiptera James Nathaniel HalbertPart 31 Orthoptera George Carpenter (also worked on other insects (all orders))Part 32 Apterygota George CarpenterPart 33 Chilopoda and Diplopoda William Frederick Johnson (also worked on other insects (all orders))Part 34 Pycnogonida George CarpenterPart 35 Araneae Denis Robert Pack-BeresfordPart 36 Phalangida Denis Robert Pack-BeresfordPart 37 Arctiscoida James MurrayPart 38 Pseudoscorpiones Harry Wallis KewPart 39 Acarinida: Section I: HydracarinaPart 39b Acarinida: Section II Terrestrial and Marine Acarina James Nathaniel HalbertPart 40 Decapoda George Philip FarranPart 41 Nebaliacea Walter Medley Tattersall (also marine dredging)Part 42 Amphipoda Walter Medley TattersallPart 43 Marine lsopoda and Tanaidacea Walter Medley TattersallPart 44 Land and Fresh-Water Isopoda Nevin Harkness Foster (also worked on birds)Part 45 Marine Entomostraca George Philip FarranPart 46 Fresh-water Entomostraca David Joseph ScourfieldPart 47 Archiannelida and Polychaeta Rowland Southern (also marine dredging)Part 48 Gephyrea Rowland SouthernPart 49 Oligochaeta Rowland SouthernPart 50 Hirudinea Rowland SouthernPart 51 Rotifera Charles F. RousseletPart 52 Rotifera Bdelloida James MurrayPart 53 Polyzoa Albert Russell NicholsPart 54 Nemathelmia, Kinorhyncha, and Chaetognatha Rowland SouthernPart 55: Nemertinea Rowland SouthernPart 56 Platyhelmia Rowland SouthernPart 57 Echinodermata Albert Russell NicholsPart 58 Coelenterata Jane StephensPart 59 Marine Porifera Jane StephensPart 60 Fresh-water Porifera Jane StephensPart 61 and 62 Flagellata and Ciliata John Samuel Dunkerly (also other Infusoria)Part 63 Mycetozoa Gulielma ListerPart 64 Foraminifera Arthur Earland and Edward Heron-AllenPart 65 Foraminifera G.H. WailesPart 66. Notes on marine plankton George Philip FarranPart 67 Notes on marine plankton George Philip FarranPart 68 General Summary Robert Lloyd PraegerNonpublishing 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)
