Article ID: CBB001251352

The Natural History Review (1854--1865) (2012)

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The natural history review was a quarterly founded in 1854 by Edward Perceval Wright, then an undergraduate student of zoology at Trinity College Dublin. Its first editorial committee (1856--1860) held traditional views of natural history. By 1860 The natural history review had failed, ostensibly for lack of subscribers, and Wright put it in the hands of Thomas Henry Huxley who, together with Joseph Hooker, John Tyndall and others, was then looking for a vehicle to disseminate the agenda of what Huxley later called scientific naturalism. Against advice from his friends, Darwin, Lyell and Hooker, Huxley accepted the editorship, preserving the title but giving The natural history review a new direction by replacing the former editorial team with some of his like-minded colleagues. Extant correspondence between several of these comprises dozens of letters in which The natural history review (1861--1865) was discussed. By the end of 1862 Huxley had given up on it, but the periodical survived until July 1865 with Hooker at the head. Throughout this second series, Charles Darwin exercised an unofficial, effective, and to today's eyes, ethically questionable editorial role. The natural history review ceased publication under Hooker in 1865. Competition from other publications, the lack of a clear purpose and the prevalence of ideology over business sense in the editor-in-chief were the likely reasons for its repeated failures.

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Authors & Contributors
Lightman, Bernard V.
Reidy, Michael Sean
Kaalund, Nanna Katrine Lüders
Stanley, Matthew
Levine, George
Ruiz, Rosaura
Concepts
Evolution
Science and religion
Darwinism
Naturalism (philosophy)
Professions and professionalization
Controversies and disputes
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
Ireland
South Africa
British Isles
Mexico
Alps (Europe)
Institutions
X-Club
Trinity College Dublin
Metaphysical Society
Presbyterian Church
Universidad Nacional de México
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