Histories
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Anniversary issues
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Centenary issue
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Is it Safe to Look Back?
"To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye."
Nature 224, 417–422 (01 November 1969)
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Science in Grub Street
By the mid-nineteenth century, biologists found there was no journal suited to their needs, but attempts to start one ended in failure.
Nature 224, 423–427 (01 November 1969)
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Macmillan and the Scientists
... Just as we have got to learn what the capacities of Literature are as a profession, we still have to realize what publishing may be and what an immense power a Publisher might wield for good without the least neglect of business conditions.
Nature 224, 427–430 (01 November 1969)
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Seeds of Competition
The failure of The Reader in 1867 after a lifetime of four years nevertheless taught a number of important lessons.
Nature 224, 431–434 (01 November 1969)
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Macmillan and the Young Guard
The search continues for a journal which would be the "advocate of the cause of Science and the interests of scientific men in England".
Nature 224, 435–436 (01 November 1969)
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The New Journal
Macmillan agrees to publish a new scientific journal with Lockyer as editor, to be called Nature. The first publication date is set.
Nature 224, 437–439 (01 November 1969)
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The First Issue
"First, to place before the general public the results of Scientific Work and Scientific Discovery and to urge the claims of science to a more general recognition in Education and in Daily Life ..."
Nature 224, 440 (01 November 1969)
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Securing the Foundations
Nature soon became the recognized forum for scientific debate in Britain. Few of the competitors of Nature from the nineteenth century have survived, but for many years Nature's finances left much to be desired.
Nature 224, 441–444 (01 November 1969)
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Private Army of Contributors
Nature benefited from an army of contributors coordinated by Lockyer, but disputes were not unknown.
Nature 224, 445–449 (01 November 1969)
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Faithful Mirror to a Profession
During the nineteenth century the leading articles in Nature tackled such topics as scientific and technical education, industrial competition from Germany, and the role of the Royal Society. Lockyer was concerned about British organic and industrial chemistry.
Nature 224, 450–452 (01 November 1969)
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Lockyer: Editor, Civil Servant and Man of Science
During the nineteenth century the leading articles in Nature tackled such topics as scientific and technical education, industrial competition from Germany, and the role of the Royal Society. Lockyer was concerned about British organic and industrial chemistry.
Nature 224, 453–456 (01 November 1969)
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Into the Twentieth Century
On November 6, 1919, Nature's Jubilee, Lockyer relinquished his editorship to Richard Gregory. By now, Nature had become a "great international institution".
Nature 224, 457–461 (01 November 1969)
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Nature and Politics between the Wars
"It is the general absence of an adequate scientific outlook... that is our gravest danger today."
Nature 224, 462–472 (01 November 1969)
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Selections from the Letters of Sir Norman Lockyer
Nature 224, 473–476 (01 November 1969)
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125th anniversary Issue
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Another anniversary to celebrate
Nature's pride in its survival this far should not be mistaken for evidence that the future can prudently be an extrapolation of the past. There are challenges and opportunities ahead.
Nature 372, 1–2 (03 November 1994)
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How to mark 125 years of discovery
Nature 372, 11–12 (03 November 1994)
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The endless frontier
Nature 372, 11–12 (03 November 1994)
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Questions yet unanswered
Nature 372, 13–14 (03 November 1994)
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Articles
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Introduction to Nature Volumes 1-20, 1869-79 (Palgrave reprint) by Sir John Maddox
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Foreword to Nature Volumes 1-20, 1869-79 (Palgrave reprint) by Philip Campbell
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Introduction by Walter Gratzer to A Bedside Nature
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Foreword by Stephen J Gould to A Bedside Nature
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OPINION
Valediction from an old hand
John Maddox Nature 378, 521 (07 December 1995)
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OPINION
Postscript from a new hand
Philip Campbell Nature 378, 649 (14 December 1995)
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NEWS
David Davies' editorship ends
Hermann Bondi Nature 283, 1 (01 January 1980)
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OPINION
Into the 1980s
David Davies Nature 282, 765 (20 December 1979)
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OPINION
What is Nature for?
David Davies Nature 243, 109 (18 May 1973)
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OPINION
Nature in the Future
Nature 244, 475 (24 August 1973)
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OPINION
A slightly bolder approach
Nature 281, 2 (06 September 1979)
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CORRESPONDENCE
Freedom of the mind got Nature banned by the Nazis
Uwe Hossfeld & Lennart Olsson Nature 443, 271 (21 September 2006)
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NEWS
Nature banned (1937)
Nature 307, 299 (24 May 1984)
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Science and Image: Noticing Nature
Martin Kemp Nature 393, 25 (7 May 1998)
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ARTICLE
The Perennial Dilemma of Science Policy
Paul Gary Werskey Nature 233, 529–532 (22 October 1971)
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Obituaries
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OBITUARY
Sir Richard Gregory
Nature 170, 520–521 (27 September 1952)
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OBITUARY
Jack Brimble
Nature 208, 819–821 (27 November 1965)
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OBITUARY
Arthur J V Gale (1895-1978)
Nature 275, 81 (14 September 1978)
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Online only
- Macmillan News Archive
- Macmillan at the British Library
- Norman Lockyer at the University of Exeter Special Collections
- Normal Lockyer Observatory
- Richard Gregory Special Collection at Sussex University
- Richard Gregory (with H. G. Wells) at Imperial College
- 'Looking back' at physics in Nature
- 'Looking back' at chemistry in Nature
- Internet archive (Norman Lockyer publications)
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Further reading
- A J Meadows Science & Controversy: A Biography of Sir Norman Lockyer. 2nd edition (2008) Palgrave Macmillan 978 0 230 22020 1 www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=312503
- A Bedside Nature: Genius & Eccentricity in Science, 1869-1953. Walter Gratzer ed (1996) Macmillan
- A Bedside Nature: Genius & Eccentricity in Science, 1869-1953. Walter Gratzer ed (1996) Macmillan
- A Century of Nature: Twenty-One Discoveries that Changed Science and the World. Laura Garwin and Tim Lincoln (2003) University of Chicago Press. See A Century of Nature
- Science & Controversy: A Biography of Sir Norman Lockyer. A J Meadows (1972) The Macmillan Press 0 333 13539 3 (978 0 333 13539 6)
- The Life and Work of Sir Norman Lockyer. T. M. Lockyer and W. L. Lockyer, with the assistance of Prof. H. Dingle, and contributions by Dr. Charles E. St. John and others (1928) Macmillan & Co Ltd
- Macmillan: A Publishing Tradition. Elizabeth James ed (2002) Palgrave Macmillan 0 333 73517 X. (978 0 333 73517 6) www.palgrave.com
- The House of Macmillan. Charles Morgan (1943) Macmillan & Co Ltd, London
- Life & Letters of Alexander Macmillan. Charles L Graves (1910) Macmillan & Co Ltd, London
- Sir Richard Gregory - His Life & Work W. H. G. Armytage (1957) Macmillan & Co Ltd London
- Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life. Henry Gee (2000) University of Chicago Press
- Barton, R. Just before Nature: The Purposes of Science and the Purposes of Popularization in some English Popular Science Journals of the 1860s. Annals of Science, 55 (1998), pp. 1-33
- Barton, R. Scientific Authority and Scientific Controversy in Nature: North Britain against the X Club. In Louise Henson et al (eds) Culture and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Media. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, pp. 223-235
- MacLeod, R.M. "A Note on 'Nature' and the Social Significance of Scientific Publishing, 1850-1914." VPN 1:3 (Nov 1968): 16-17
- MacLeod, R.M. The "Creed of Science" in Victorian England. (Brookfield: Ashgate, 2000)
- MacLeod, R.M. 'Public Science and Public Policy in Victorian England (London: Ashgate, 1996)
- MacLeod, R.M. The X-Club a Social Network of Science in Late-Victorian England. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Apr., 1970), pp. 305-322
- Maddox, J. "Scientific journalism-John Maddox on the nature of Nature." Listener 90 (1973): 761-763
- The 'Nature' Centenary Dinner
John Maddox and Harold Macmillan
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jun., 1970), pp. 9-15 - Fifield, Dick. "The Centenary of Nature." New Scientist. 30 Oct 1969. 230-232
- Interview with Nicholas Wade. Current Biology. Volume 16, Issue 18, Pages 1771-1870 (19 September 2006). Pages R783-R784.
- Schwartz, Joel S. "Out from Darwin's Shadow: George John Romanes Efforts to Popularize Science in Nature and Other Victorian Periodicals." VPR 35:2 (Summer 2002): 133-159
- David A. Roos, "The aims and intentions of Nature" in "Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives", edited by J. Paradis and T. Postlewait (1981). Vol. 360 of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 81, p.261
- Richard Arman Gregory. 1864-1952, F. J. M. Stratton, Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 8, No. 22 (Nov., 1953), pp. 410-417
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