Natural History Review
The Natural History Review was a quarterly basis from 1854 to 1865 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland scientific journal, to natural history.
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History
Early years ( 1854-1860 )
The Natural History Review was founded in 1854 and served as the publication organ of the Irish companies 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. Editor 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 ( 1861-1865 )
Since the magazine did not reach high circulation figures, Wright turned in the summer of 1860 to Thomas Henry Huxley and wore this the main editorship of the Journal of. Although dissuaded him Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin, Huxley took over the task with the aim of the magazine into a platform for the dissemination of Darwin's theory of evolution to convert.
In January 1861 the first issue of the redesigned magazine was published under the title Natural History Review: A quarterly journal of biological science, which contained, among other things, Huxley's essay On the Zoological Relations of Man with the Lower Animals. The April issue contained an example translated from German essay by Hermann Schaaffhausen, the discoverer of Neanderthal man. 1865, the publication of the magazine was discontinued.
During this time the rest of the Natural History Review was about 1,000 copies. Unlike other leading Victorian periodicals such as the London Review, the Westminster Review, the Quarterly Review, the Cornhill Magazine or the Fraser 's Magazine exclusively contributions to scientific topics were published in the Natural History Review 1861-1865. A high priority had this anthropological topics.