PRAEGER,+Robert+Lloyd

PRAEGER, Robert Lloyd (1865-1953) National Library of Ireland 1893-1924 (CL 1920) Trained originally as an engineer, he is remembered particularly as geologist and naturalist, for his //Natural flora of Ireland// (1950) and for what is still one of the best of Irish travel books, //The way that I went// (1937, 2nd edition 1947). Although then retired he was unanimously elected the first President of the LA of Ireland on its foundation in 1928.