With Helena C. G. Chesney, ed., Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History (Dublin: Lilliput 1997), 672pp.

CONTENTS: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS [VII]; PREFACE [IX]; John Feehan, THE HERITAGE OF THE ROCKS [3]; John Wilson Foster, ENCOUNTERING TRADITIONS [23]; Christopher Moriarty, THE EARLY NATURALISTS [71]; Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, FLUCTUATIONS IN FORTUNE: THREE HUNDRED YEARS OF IRISH GEOLOGY [9]; Brendan McWilliams, THE KINGDOM OF THE AIR: THE PROGRESS OF METEOROLOGY [115]; Eoin Neeson, WOODLAND IN HISTORY AND CULTURE [133]; Donal Synnott, BOTANY IN IRELAND [157]; Peter Foss and Catherine O’Connell, BOGLAND: STUDY AND UTILIZATION [184]; J. H. Andrews, PAPER LANDSCAPES: MAPPING IRELAND’S PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY [199]; INSECTS AND ENTOMOLOGY, James P. O ‘Connor [219]; Patrick Sleeman, MAMMALS AND MAMMALOGY [241]; Clive Hutchinson, BIRD STUDY IN IRELAND [262]; Christopher Moriarty, FISH AND FISHERIES [283]; Michael D. Guiry, NO STONE UNTURNED: ROBERT LLOYD PRAEGER AND THE MAJOR SURVEYS [299]. OUT OF IRELAND: NATURALISTS ABROAD, 1. John Wilson Foster, INTRODUCTION [308]; 2. Sheila Landy, FRANCIS BEAUFORT [327]; 3. Paul Hackney, EDWARD SABINE [331]; 4. Helena C. G. Chesney, FRANCIS RAWDON CHESNEY [337]; 5. Paul Hackney, FRANCIS LEOPOLD MCCLINTOCK [342]; 6. Helena C. G. Chesney and Robert Nash, ROBERT TEMPLETON [349]; 7. Mary G. McGeown, JOHN MACOUN [354]; 8. Iain Higgins, HENRY CHICHESTER HART [360]; Helena C. G. Chesney, ENLIGHTENMENT AND EDUCATION [367]; David N. Livingstone, DARWIN IN BELFAST: THE EVOLUTION DEBATE [387] John Wilson Foster, NATURE AND NATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY [409]; Sean Lysaght, CONTRASTING NATURES: THE ISSUE OF NAMES [440]; Dorinda Outram, THE HISTORY OF NATURAL HISTORY: GRAND NARRATIVE OR LOCAL LORE? [461]; David Cabot, ESSENTIAL TEXTS IN IRISH NATURAL HISTORY [472]; Martyn Anglesea, THE ART OF NATURE ILLUSTRATION [497]; Michael Viney, WILD SPORTS AND STONE GUNS [524]; Terence Reeves-Smyth, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DEMESNES [549]; John Feehan, THREAT AND CONSERVATION: ATTITUDES TO NATURE IN IRELAND [573]; John Wilson Foster, THE CULTURE OF NATURE [597]; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS, 636; INDEX, 641