The Phytologist

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The Phytologist was a British botanical journal, appearing first as Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany. It was founded in 1841 as a monthly, edited by George Luxford. [1] Luxford died in 1854, and the title was taken over by Alexander Irvine and William Pamplin, who ran it to 1863 with subtitle "a botanical journal". [2] [3]

Contents

The proprietor for the first series was Edward Newman, also a contributor. [4] The publisher was John Van Voorst. [5] The journal never made money. Newman used its pages to attack Vestiges of Creation (1844), in an outspoken signed review that stood out from the mass of anonymous comment. Luxford's overall editorial policy, however, gave space to those supporting transmutation of species. [6] The Phytologist, quite unofficially, became the house journal of the Botanical Society of London; and Hewett Watson of the Society a prominent contributor. [7] In the early issues Luxford wrote a series of ten articles on myco-heterotrophy, around Monotropa hypopithys , and prompted sharp debate. [8]

Contributors

New Phytologist

New Phytologist was launched by Arthur Tansley in 1902, with a conscious nod to its predecessor. [35]

Notes

  1. ↑ Allen, D. E. "Luxford, George". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17231.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ↑ Allen, D. E. "Irvine, Alexander". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14465.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ↑ "The Phytologist: a botanical journal. - Biodiversity Heritage Library" . Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Foote, Yolanda. "Newman, Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20017.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. 1 2 John Stuart Mill (1 February 2015). Miscellaneous Writings. University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. pp. 37–8. ISBN   978-1-4426-5589-8.
  6. ↑ James A. Secord (20 September 2003). Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. University of Chicago Press. pp. 453–4. ISBN   978-0-226-15825-9.
  7. ↑ Egerton, Frank N. (2010). "History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 36: Hewett Watson, Plant Geographer and Evolutionist". Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 91 (3): 294–312. doi: 10.1890/0012-9623-91.3.294 . JSTOR   bullecosociamer.91.3.294.
  8. ↑ Bidartondo, Martin I. (2005). "The Evolutionary Ecology of Myco-Heterotrophy". The New Phytologist. 167 (2): 335–352. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01429.x . JSTOR   3694504. PMID   15998389.
  9. ↑ Davis, Peter. "Backhouse family". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/61918.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  10. ↑ Desmond, Ray. "Gilbert, John Baker". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38296.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  11. ↑ Kell, P. E. "Borrer, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2917.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  12. ↑ Kell, P. E. "Bromfield, William Arnold". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3507.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  13. ↑ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Edmondston, Thomas"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  14. ↑ Goldbloom, Alexander. "Forster, Edward, the younger". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9906.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  15. ↑ Allen, D. E. "Gibson, George Stacey". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10618.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  16. ↑ Secord, Anne. "Gibson, Samuel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52519.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  17. ↑ Shteir, Anne B. "Griffiths, Amelia Warren". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/59318.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  18. ↑ Allen, D. E. "Ibbotson, Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14351.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  19. ↑ Mary R. S. Creese (1 January 2000). Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800-1900: A Survey of Their Contributions to Research. Scarecrow Press. p. 33. ISBN   978-0-585-27684-7.
  20. ↑ "Miscellaneous Notes". Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew). 1912 (3): 155–160. 1912. JSTOR   4104570.
  21. ↑ "Miscellaneous Notes". Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew). 1906 (5): 173–192. 1906. JSTOR   4111300.
  22. ↑ "Miscellaneous Notes". Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew). 1906 (7): 271–296. 1906. JSTOR   4118222.
  23. ↑ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Moore, David"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  24. ↑ Cantor, Geoffrey. "Oliver, Daniel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54095.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  25. ↑ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Quekett, John Thomas"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  26. ↑ Price, James H. "Ralfs, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23044.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  27. ↑ Allen, D. E. "Salmon, John Drew". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24554.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  28. ↑ Goldbloom, Alexander. "Smith, Gerard Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25809.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  29. ↑ Locke, Ian Francis. "Spruce, Richard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26184.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  30. ↑ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Stowell, Hugh"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  31. ↑ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Taylor, Thomas (d.1848)"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  32. ↑ Grout, Andrew. "Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27416.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  33. ↑ Egerton, Frank N. "Watson, Hewett Cottrell". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28838.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  34. ↑ Barson, Susie. "Woods, Joseph". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29935.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  35. ↑ Lewis, David H.; Ingram, Jonathan (2002). "A Brief History of New Phytologist". The New Phytologist. 153 (1): 10–16. doi: 10.1046/j.0028-646X.2001.00305.x . JSTOR   1513903.

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