Some Irish Naturalists. A Biographical Note-Book. With 60 Portraits. Dundalk: W. Tempest, 1949. First Edition. Pp 208. Cloth boards, in publisher’s dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

Illustrated with sixty portraits brought together from a great many sources.

A collection of biographies on over 300 people beginning with the 7th century monk Augustin and continuing down to the present day. Interesting accounts are given of societies, field clubs and team-work surveys.

Robert Lloyd Praeger is regarded as the father of the study of Irish natural history & author of the classic autobiographical naturalist travelogue, ‘The Way that I Went.’