Journal of Natural History

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Journal of Natural History

description English science magazine
Area of ​​Expertise zoology
language English
publishing company Taylor & Francis (United Kingdom)
Headquarters London
First edition 1841
Frequency of publication per month
Impact Factor 0.837 (2018)
Editor-in-chief Andrew Polaszek
Web link www.tandfonline.com/toc/tnah20/current
ISSN (print) 0022-2933
ISSN (online) 1464-5262
CODEN JNAHA

The Journal of Natural History is one of the British publishing group Taylor & Francis published zoological journal . It appeared as the Annals of Natural History since 1838 , was merged with the Magazine of Natural History to form the Annals and Magazine of Natural History in 1840 , and was given its current name in 1967. With more than 2000 issues in over 180 years, the Journal of Natural History is one of the longest-running scientific journals.

content

According to its own statements, the journal today publishes the results of original research and systematic reviews on evolutionary biology and ecology . Here are revisions of taxa all animal strains and work on cladistics , molecular phylogeny , phylogeny and Phylogenomik published. The focus is on entomology and marine biology . Initial descriptions of individual species and lists of fauna are usually not published.

history

Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology and Meteorology , first volume, 1828/29

From 1828 to 1840 the Magazine of Natural History , edited by John Claudius Loudon , appeared in London , with the full title Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology and Meteorology . In December 1835, the Scottish doctor and naturalist George Johnston suggested to his friend William Jardine in Edinburgh that a journal of zoology and botany should be founded. Jardine agreed and Johnston secured the support of Prideaux John Selby as financier and editor and William Home Lizars as publisher. The first issue of the Magazine of Zoology and Botany appeared in June 1836. By 1838, two volumes had appeared with twelve bimonthly issues. During these first years, works on British natural history were primarily published, supplemented with some information from the European continent. The authors received small fees, and contributions such as announcements and reviews of newly published specialist books or news from scientific societies were written by the editors themselves.

In an effort to give botany more space in their journal, the editors enlisted the respected botanist William Hooker and merged their Magazine of Zoology and Botany with Hooker's Botanical Companion to form the Annals of Natural History, or, published in five volumes from 1838 to 1840 Magazine of Zoology, Botany, and Geology . On this occasion the place of publication was moved to London, Richard Taylor won as publisher, and the monthly publication was introduced.

In August 1840 Taylor bought the London Magazine of Natural History and merged it the following month with the Annals of Natural History to form the Annals and Magazine of Natural History (full title, with few changes over time, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History Zoology, Botany, and Geology being a continuation of the 'Annals' combined with Messrs. Loudon and Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural History' ). The numbering of the volumes was taken from the Annals of Natural History and continued with Volume 6 for the year 1841. During the merger, the print run temporarily increased to 700 copies, but soon fell to around 500 and eventually 400 copies. Regardless of the very small circulation by later standards, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History was the leading British biology journal until the turn of the century. Up to 1966 there were 13 series, mostly with twenty volumes. Up to 1941, six editions were combined into one volume. From 1942 to 1965, twelve issues formed an annual volume. For a very long time it stayed with monthly publication, in 1965 there were six double issues and in 1966 only four issues. In 1967 the title was changed to Journal of Natural History and the emphasis shifted towards topics such as biological systematics and phylogenetics . The magazine has been published monthly since 1971.

editor

Richard Taylor , editor 1838-1858

The outstanding importance of the journal is reflected in the list of its editors, who were often leading British biologists of their time. It was often in the business for decades, and more than half of the editors of the Annals and Magazines of Natural History remained in the business until their deaths.

Magazine of Natural History

Magazine of Zoology and Botany

Annals of Natural History

  • William Jardine (1838-1840)
  • Prideaux John Selby (1838-1840)
  • George Johnston (1838-1840)
  • William Hooker (1838-1840)
  • Richard Taylor (1838-1840)

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Albert Günther , publisher 1876–1912

Journal of Natural History (selection)

  • Gwilym Owen Evans (1967–1973)
  • Harold Oldroyd (1967–1978)
  • Herbert Leader Hawkins (1967–1979)
  • Anthony Leonard Rice (1967-1969)
  • John Anthony Wallwork (1969–1972)
  • Vaughan R. Southgate (1972-1983)
  • David Hollis (1979-1983)
  • Andrew Polaszek (1960–)

layout

The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series, Volume 16, No. 93, September 1855 The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, back cover, c. 1846 to 1966
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History , Second Series, Volume 16, No. 93, September 1855
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History , back cover, c. 1846 to 1966

The magazine's deliveries already had a distinctive blue cover in the first few years. George Johnston therefore referred to the magazine as "Miss Blue". The cover artwork was taken from Loudon's Magazine of Natural History and copied by Richard Taylor. It shows a portrait of Carl von Linnés (originally in profile) over a medallion to hold the number and year, surrounded by a multitude of plants and animals that symbolize the content of the magazine. The graphic was used almost unchanged for more than a hundred years and was only abandoned in 1952 when the print format was changed slightly. The blue cover remained until 1966 and was only replaced by a new design and color scheme when it was renamed the Journal of Natural History . The title pages almost always contained information about the current publisher, and after the takeover of other journals also a reference to it. From 1840 to 1966, the title was an indication that the journal was the joint continuation of the Annals of Natural History and the Magazine of Natural History . In 1952 a line was temporarily added to the title page with a reference to the continuation of the Journal of Botany , which was discontinued in 1942 .

Another tradition was established with the design of the back of the title page . First of all, a quote from Carl von Linné has been printed since the first editions of the Annals of Natural History . Underneath is the depiction of an oil lamp, which is already being filled, with the words alere flammam (German: food of light ), shown in earlier magazines of the publisher . A quote from Petrus Lotichius Secundus ' Eligium liber was added to the whole in 1846 . The Lotichius quote was replaced in the following volume by one of Richard Taylor's father from 1818. Taylor's father was the Norwich poet and entrepreneur John Taylor (1750-1826). Finally, a quote from John Bruckner's (1726–1804) published anonymously in Leiden 's Théorie du Système Animal in 1767 was inserted in the second place . Like Richard Taylor, Bruckner lived in Norwich and was a pastor there. The design of the page with the three quotations and the lamp of learning was kept almost unchanged until 1966. The modernized version of the oil lamp still forms the logo of the Taylor & Francis publishing group.

Web links

Commons : Journal of Natural History  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of Natural History. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
  2. ^ Aims and scope. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Neal L. Evenhuis : Publication and dating of the journals forming the Annals and Magazine of Natural History and the Journal of Natural History . In: Zootaxa . tape 385 , 2003, doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.385.1.1 .
  4. ^ A b c William H. Brock , AJ Meadows : The Francis era . In: The Lamp of Learning. Two Centuries of Publishing at Taylor & Francis . 2003, ISBN 0-7484-0265-9 , chap. 5 , p. 111-145 .