Abstract
A MODERN element in the fascination that islands undoubtedly exert is their biological interest. What are the island's inhabitants of high and low degree? How came they there and whence? How has the isolation affected them? Such are the biological questions which, as Mr. Lloyd Praeger remarks, have led many naturalists to study islands. He recalls Alphonse de Candolle, Edward Forbes, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Sir J. D. Hooker; and many other names might be cited. The same old questions led a number of naturalists in 1909 to plan and inaugurate the survey of Clare Island, which has now been completed to the great credit of all concerned. The island was chosen because of its suitable size and position, because of its unusual elevation as compared with most of the islands lying off the west coast of Ireland, and for various practical reasons.
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