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Quarterly Journal of Science, The
vol 1 [2s], Jan 1864 - Apr 1864
then: Quarterly Journal of Science and Annals of Mining, Metallurgy...and Technology. vol 1, Apr 1864 - vol 15, 1878.
then: Monthly Journal of Science. vol 1 no 2 [3s] (or vol 16 [2s]), Feb 1879 - vol 1 no 12 [ 3s] (or vol 16 [2s]), Dec 1879
then: Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy, Geology, Industrial Arts, and Technology. vol 1 [3s] (or 16), Dec 1879 - vol 7 no 159 [3s], Dec 1885//
then: Monthly Journal of Science. vol 1 no 2 [3s] (or vol 16 [2s]), Feb 1879 - vol 1 no 12 [ 3s] (or vol 16 [2s]), Dec 1879
then: Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy, Geology, Industrial Arts, and Technology. vol 1 [3s] (or 16), Dec 1879 - vol 7 no 159 [3s], Dec 1885//
London,Middlesex
Editor:
William Crookes (1864 - 1878+)
W. Fairbairn (1870)
James Samuelson (1864 - 1871)
W. Fairbairn (1870)
James Samuelson (1864 - 1871)
Publisher:
John Churchill and Sons (London, 1864)
Longmans, Green and Co (1870)
Longmans, Green and Co (1870)
Contributors:
Thomas Belt
John William Dawson
James Douglas
Edward Hull
John William Dawson
James Douglas
Edward Hull
Size:
22 cm; 8vo
Price:
5s (1865)
Circulation:
2,000 (1865)
Frequency:
quarterly (1864-1879); monthly (1879-1885)
Illustration:
illustrated
Indexing:
T of C/vol (1864); GeoRef
Departments:
original articles, chronicles of science, reviews, pamphlets, notes and correspondence (1864)
Merges:
absorbed Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (Apr 1864)
Sources:
Bolton, Scientific and Technical Periodicals; Cooper, Dictionary of Contemporaries.; Ellegard, Alvar. "The Readership of the Periodical Press in Mid-Victorian Britain". Goteborg: Goteborgs Universitets Arsskrift. 63:3 (1957). Reprinted VPN no 13 (Sep 1971): 3-22. GeoRef (1998), an electronic journal index by the American Geological Institute; Gascoigne, Historical Catalogue of Scientific Periodicals.; Leiper, R. T. Periodicals of Medicine and the Allied Sciences in British Libraries, including the Sciences of Agriculture, Anatomy, Anthropology, Bacteriology, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Ethnology, General Science, Physics, Physiology, Zoology. London: The British Medical Association, [1927].; London: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1965.; National Library of Ireland (R. I. Best, Librarian). List of Scientific and Technical Periodicals in Dublin Libraries. Dublin: The Stationery Office, 1929.; Royal Society of London. Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1963. Vol 1. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1867; Scudder, Catalogue of Scientific Serials.; Sutherland, Gillian, gen. ed., introd. by P. and G. Ford. Education in Britain. [Dublin]: Irish University Press, c.1977.; [LeFanu, W. R.] List of the Transactions, Periodicals and Memoirs in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2nd. ed. London: Taylor and Francis, 1931.; Henson et al. Culture and Science;
Histories:
Brock, William H. "Science". Victorian Periodicals and Victorian Society. Ed. J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. VanArsdel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994: 81-96. Knight, David. "Journal." Sources of the History of Science 1660 - 1914. Ed. G. R. Elton. Great Britain: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 1975. 114.; Meadows, Results of Scientific Research.; Sheets-Pyenson, Susan. "Popular Science Periodicals in Paris and London: The Emergence of a Low Scientific Culture, 1820-1875". Annals of Science 42 (1985): 549-72.; Thornton, John L. and R. I. J. Tully. 'The Growth of the Scientific Periodical Literature' ch. 8 in Scientific Books, Libraries and Collector: A Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in Relation to Science. 3rd Ed. London: The Library Association, 1971. pp. 277-293.
Comments:
This title is cited in Wellcome Library Catalogue.
"When publication of The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ceased, readers were exhorted to transfer to the Quarterly Journal of Science... Readers were middle to upper class amateurs of science and natural history" (Ellegard, p.15).
"Underwent several changes of title between 1870 and 1880" (Thornton, 287). Gascoigne estimates this periodical published 1-9 original articles per year from 1864-1873 (ranking it a 1 on a scale of relative size from 1-20).
"As the founding editor of the Chemical News (1859-1900+) and the Quarterly Journal of Science (1864-85), in which he publicized his own investigations into spiritualistic phenomena, Crookes possessed a sound commercial sense as well as being an important and talented contributor to late-Victorian chemistry and physics" (Brock, William H. "Science," p.95).
This publication is often confused with that published at the Royal Institution but this is a private journal "with an emphasis on lysical [physical?] science" (Knight, p.114).
One of the better known science journals of its time. This expired in the 1880's (Meadows p.55).
In 1871 the subtitle became: "and annals of mining, metallurgy, engineering, industrial arts, manufactures, and technology."
At some point it was also known as Quarterly Journal of Science and Arts.
One source indicates that the then title: Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy, Geology, Industrial Arts, and Technology existed until 1886.
It was published primarily in London and it circulated in Leipzig and Paris.
"When publication of The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ceased, readers were exhorted to transfer to the Quarterly Journal of Science... Readers were middle to upper class amateurs of science and natural history" (Ellegard, p.15).
"Underwent several changes of title between 1870 and 1880" (Thornton, 287). Gascoigne estimates this periodical published 1-9 original articles per year from 1864-1873 (ranking it a 1 on a scale of relative size from 1-20).
"As the founding editor of the Chemical News (1859-1900+) and the Quarterly Journal of Science (1864-85), in which he publicized his own investigations into spiritualistic phenomena, Crookes possessed a sound commercial sense as well as being an important and talented contributor to late-Victorian chemistry and physics" (Brock, William H. "Science," p.95).
This publication is often confused with that published at the Royal Institution but this is a private journal "with an emphasis on lysical [physical?] science" (Knight, p.114).
One of the better known science journals of its time. This expired in the 1880's (Meadows p.55).
In 1871 the subtitle became: "and annals of mining, metallurgy, engineering, industrial arts, manufactures, and technology."
At some point it was also known as Quarterly Journal of Science and Arts.
One source indicates that the then title: Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy, Geology, Industrial Arts, and Technology existed until 1886.
It was published primarily in London and it circulated in Leipzig and Paris.
Location:
partial runs: DB/U-1 A, College of Science (vols 1-19) (see Best, List of Scientific); LO/M24 (missing); DB/N-1 F; QZ/P-1 (1879-1885); Chemical Society, LO/M14 (see List of Transactions); LO/M17 C; LO/S19; OX/U-8 B; LV/U-1 G; LO/N-1 A; CA/U-1 A, XY/N-1 vols 1-18 (1864-1881); See: Bolton; Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (see Leiper); N.America: Fulton and ULS 2&3, University of Oklahoma (complete run)
Reproduced by permission, British Library, Boston Spa
Reproduced by Permission, Royal Observatory of Edinburgh Library
Reproduced by Permission, Royal Observatory of Edinburgh Library
Reproduced by Permission, Royal Observatory of Edinburgh Library