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Geneva to place his valuable services at the disposal of the 

 committee. 



Field work in the area, which now included far more 

 than Clare Island, was opened at Easter in 1909 and con- 

 tinued until the autumn of the year 191 1. The real in- 

 vestigation of all the spoils gathered during those three 

 years then began. All the investigators who had helped in 

 the great survey were busy people. They had plenty of 

 other work to do, and many of them would gladly have 

 escaped the drudgery of writing long reports on their 

 observations. For three years more Mr. Praeger was kept 

 working away at full pressure, harassing his victims and 

 editing the manuscripts as they came in. They were pub- 

 lished in three parts aggregating over 2,000 pages of print. 



It is worthy of mention that not a single accident or 

 hitch occurred during the whole time the survey took place. 

 The parties had to be conveyed to and from the island in 

 open boats, across very exposed waters, and many parts 

 of the island are precipitous and dangerous for explorers. 



The following members of the Survey contributed 

 reports (forming volume xxxi. of the Proceedings of the 

 Royal Irish Academy). The President and Council of the 

 Royal Irish Academy w^ere among the first to recognise the 

 value of these researches. They have earned the special 

 gratitude of all naturalists by ordering these reports to be 

 printed and published. These reports can be procured 

 separately from the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson 

 Street, Dublin. 



Praeger, R. LI. — General Introduction and Narrative. 

 Westropp, T. J. — History and Archaeology. 

 MacNeill, John. — Place Names and Family Names. 

 CoLGAN, N. — Gaelic Plant and Animal Names. 

 Wilson, James. — Agriculture. 

 Lyons, W. J. — Climatology. 

 Hallissy, T. — Geology. 

 Forbes, A. C. — Tree growth. 



Praeger, R. Ll. — Phanerogamia and Pteridophyta. 



Lett, Canon. — Musci and Hepaticae. 



Rea, Carleton, and H. C. Hawley. — Fungi. 



Smith, Annie Lorrain. — Lichcnes. 



Cotton, A. D. — Algae (Marine). 



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