The Irish Naturalist was a scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 that was first published in Dublin, Ireland

Ireland

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, in April 1892.

History

The journal owed its establishment to the efforts of several leading Dublin naturalist

Naturalist

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s, notably George H. Carpenter and R. M. Barrington. The first editors were Carpenter and Robert Lloyd Praeger

Robert Lloyd Praeger

-Life:Of a Unitarian background, he was born in Holywood, County Down, and grew up in that town where he was educated, first in the school of the Rev McAlister and then at nearby Sullivan Upper School. He worked in the National Library of Ireland in Dublin from 1893 to 1923. He co-founded and...

, of the National Library of Ireland

National Library of Ireland

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. The journal was supported by a number of societies, including the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, the Dublin Microscopical Club, the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, and the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club.

The Irish Naturalist was published for 33 years and contained in total over 3000 pages. The journal ceased publication in December 1924. It had been having some financial problems, but the final blow came when Carpenter took up his appointment to the keepership of the Manchester Museum in 1923.

Contributors

Among notable contributors to The Irish Naturalist were:

• George James Allman
  George James Allman
  George James Allman FRS , M.D., Emeritus Professor of Natural History in Edinburgh, was an eminent Irish naturalist.-Life:...
  
  
• Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton
  Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton
  Major Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton was a notable British natural historian, co-author with M. A. C. Hinton of A History of British Mammals , which remained "the most thorough, accurate and scientific publication" on British mammals until the 1950s.He was born in India of Irish parents,...
  
  
• Alfred Cort Haddon
  Alfred Cort Haddon
  Alfred Cort Haddon, Sc.D., FRS, FRGS was an influential British anthropologist and ethnologist.Initially a biologist, who achieved his most notable fieldwork, with W.H.R. Rivers, C.G. Seligman, Sidney Ray, Anthony Wilkin on the Torres Strait Islands...
  
  
• Maxwell Henry Close
  Maxwell Henry Close
  Maxwell Henry Close was an Irish Church of Ireland clergyman and geologist who also contributed to the preservation of the Irish language.-Life:...
  
  

External links

• BDH Digital versions of The Irish Naturalist
• http://www.archive.org/stream/irishnaturalist26roya/irishnaturalist26roya_djvu.txt Online copy of the journal, January 1917