Natural History Review

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The Natural History Review was a 1854-1865 quarterly in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland appearing Journal of Natural History .

history

First years (1854 to 1860)

The Natural History Review was founded in 1854 and served as the publication organ of the Irish societies Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society , Cork Cuvierian Society , Dublin Natural History Society , Dublin University Zoological Association and the Literary and Scientific Institution of Kilkenny . Editors of the first series were William Henry Harvey , Samuel Haughton (1821-1897), Arthur Riky Hogan and Edward Perceval Wright (1834-1910) who worked at Trinity College in Dublin .

Huxley as editor (1861 to 1865)

Since the magazine did not reach high numbers of copies, Wright turned to Thomas Henry Huxley in the summer of 1860 and put this on the main editor of the journal. Although Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin advised against it, Huxley took on the task with the aim of transforming the journal into a platform for the dissemination of Darwin's theory of evolution .

In January 1861, the first issue of the newly designed journal appeared under the title Natural History Review: A quarterly journal of biological science , which included Huxley's essay On the Zoological Relations of Man with the Lower Animals . The April edition, for example, contained an essay by Hermann Schaaffhausen , the discoverer of the Neanderthal, translated from German . In 1865 the publication of the magazine was stopped.

During this time, the Natural History Review had a circulation of about 1,000 copies. In contrast to other leading Victorian magazines, such as the London Review , the Westminster Review , the Quarterly Review , the Cornhill Magazine or the Fraser's Magazine , the Natural History Review from 1861 to 1865 only published articles on scientific topics. Anthropological topics were of great importance .

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literature

  • The Natural History Review . In: William Kirby Sullivan: The monthly journal of progress . Volume 1, 1854, pp. 103-104
  • Leonard Huxley (Ed.): Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley . 2nd edition, Macmillan and Co., London 1908, Volume 1, pp. 302-305

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2873.xml
  2. ↑ http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=2434
  3. ↑ Thomas Henry Huxley to Joseph Dalton Hooker, July 17, 1860, In: Leonard Huxley (Ed.): Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley . 2nd edition, Macmillan and Co., London 1908, Volume 1, pp. 302-303
  4. ^ Charles G. Gross: Hippocampus minor and man's place in nature: A case study in the social construction of neuroanatomy . In: Hippocampus . Volume 3, No. 4, p. 409, 1993; doi : 10.1002 / hipo.450030403
  5. ↑ Thomas Gondermann: Evolution and Race: Theoretical and Institutional Change in Victorian Anthropology . transcript Verlag, 2007, ISBN 9783899426632 , p. 284

further reading

  • Edward Caudill: The Bishop-Eaters: The Publicity Campaign for Darwin and on the Origin of Species . In: Journal of the History of Ideas . Vol. 55, No. 3, 1994, pp. 441-460; JSTOR 2709849

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