Heron-Allen Society/Royal Irish Academy Survey of Clare Island Seminar

Held on Friday 2nd October 2009
Academy House, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin

EHA, Clare Island, 1911

Report of the meeting

• 12:00
  Light lunch for the Heron-Allen Society at the Academy with Committee Members of the New Survey of Clare Island
• 1:00-2:00
  Timothy Collins talk: ‘The Clare Island Survey: 100 researchers, six nationalities, and an outstanding landmark in Irish natural history’
• 2:00-2:30
  Tour of Library exhibition: ‘Darwin, Praeger and the Clare Island Surveys’ and viewing of Heron-Allen Society Journals and expedition items
• 2:30-3:15
  Timothy J. McCann: ‘The singular life of Edward Heron-Allen’
• 3:15-3:30
  Coffee
• 3:30-4:15
  John E. Whittaker: ‘Heron-Allen’s travel journals from Clare Island’
• 4:30
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