Irish Naturalist
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The Irish Naturalist was a scientific journal
Scientific journal
In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...

 that was first published in Dublin, Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

, in April 1892.

History

The journal owed its establishment to the efforts of several leading Dublin naturalist
Naturalist
Naturalist may refer to:* Practitioner of natural history* Conservationist* Advocate of naturalism * Naturalist , autobiography-See also:* The American Naturalist, periodical* Naturalism...

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
The National Library of Ireland is Ireland's national library located in Dublin, in a building designed by Thomas Newenham Deane. The Minister for Arts, Sport & Tourism is the member of the Irish Government responsible for the library....

. 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:...


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