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245 00 a| Nature in Ireland :b| a scientific and cultural history /c| senior editor, John Wilson Foster ; associate editor, Helena C.G. Chesney.;

260 a| Dublin :b| Lilliput Press,c| 1997.;

300 a| xii, 658 pages :b| illustrations, maps ;c| 24 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

500 a| Maps on endpapers.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| The heritage of the rocks / John Feehan -- Encountering traditions / John Wilson Foster -- The early naturalists / Christopher Moriarty -- Fluctuations in fortune: three hundred years of Irish geology / Patrick N. Wyse Jackson -- The kingdom of the air: the progress of meteorology / Brendan McWilliams -- Woodland in history and culture / Eoin Neeson -- Botany in Ireland / Donal Synnott -- Bogland: study and utilization / Peter Foss and Catherine O'Connell -- Paper landscapes: mapping Ireland's physical geography / J.H. Andrews -- Insects and entomology / James P. O'Connor -- Mammals and mammalogy / Patrick Sleeman -- Bird study in Ireland / Clive Hutchinson -- Fish and fisheries / Christopher Moriarty -- No stone unturned: Robert Lloyd Praeger and the major surveys / Michael D. Guiry -- Out of Ireland: naturalists abroad. Francis Beaufort / Sheila Landy. Edward Sabine / Paul Hackney. Francis Rawdon Chesney / Helena C.G. Chesney. Francis Leopold McClintock / Paul Hackney. Robert Templeton / Helena C.G. Chesney and Robert Nash. John Macoun / Mary G. McGeown. Henry Chichester Hart / Iain Higgins -- Enlightenment and education / Helena C.G. Chesney -- Darwin in Belfast: the evolution debate / David N. Livingstone -- Nature and nation in the nineteenth century / John Wilson Foster -- Contrasting natures: the issue of names / Seán Lysaght -- The history of natural history: grand narrative or local lore? / Dorinda Outram -- Essential texts in Irish natural history / David Cabot -- The art of nature illustration / Martyn Anglesea -- Wild sports and stone guns / Michael Viney -- The natural history of demesnes / Terence Reeves-Smyth -- Threat and conservation: attitudes to nature in Ireland / John Feehan -- The culture of nature / John Wilson Foster.;

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Nature in Ireland : a scientific and cultural history / senior editor, John Wilson Foster ; associate editor, Helena C.G. Chesney.

Other author	Foster, John Wilson.
Other author	Chesney, Helena C. G.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Dublin : Lilliput Press, 1997.
Description	xii, 658 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects	Nature. Natural history--Ireland. Popular culture--Ireland.

Contents	The heritage of the rocks / John Feehan -- Encountering traditions / John Wilson Foster -- The early naturalists / Christopher Moriarty -- Fluctuations in fortune: three hundred years of Irish geology / Patrick N. Wyse Jackson -- The kingdom of the air: the progress of meteorology / Brendan McWilliams -- Woodland in history and culture / Eoin Neeson -- Botany in Ireland / Donal Synnott -- Bogland: study and utilization / Peter Foss and Catherine O'Connell -- Paper landscapes: mapping Ireland's physical geography / J.H. Andrews -- Insects and entomology / James P. O'Connor -- Mammals and mammalogy / Patrick Sleeman -- Bird study in Ireland / Clive Hutchinson -- Fish and fisheries / Christopher Moriarty -- No stone unturned: Robert Lloyd Praeger and the major surveys / Michael D. Guiry -- Out of Ireland: naturalists abroad. Francis Beaufort / Sheila Landy. Edward Sabine / Paul Hackney. Francis Rawdon Chesney / Helena C.G. Chesney. Francis Leopold McClintock / Paul Hackney. Robert Templeton / Helena C.G. Chesney and Robert Nash. John Macoun / Mary G. McGeown. Henry Chichester Hart / Iain Higgins -- Enlightenment and education / Helena C.G. Chesney -- Darwin in Belfast: the evolution debate / David N. Livingstone -- Nature and nation in the nineteenth century / John Wilson Foster -- Contrasting natures: the issue of names / Seán Lysaght -- The history of natural history: grand narrative or local lore? / Dorinda Outram -- Essential texts in Irish natural history / David Cabot -- The art of nature illustration / Martyn Anglesea -- Wild sports and stone guns / Michael Viney -- The natural history of demesnes / Terence Reeves-Smyth -- Threat and conservation: attitudes to nature in Ireland / John Feehan -- The culture of nature / John Wilson Foster.
General note	Maps on endpapers.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	97164170
ISBN	1874675295 (cased)
ISBN	1874675899 (pbk.)

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