Science Gossip Talk

Favourite Journal?

  • geoffrey.belknap by geoffrey.belknap scientist

    Hi All,

    Was just curious - do you have a favourite journal that is currently on, or has been on Science Gossip? And what makes it your favourite? Do you have one you don't like classifying, and why do you dislike it?

    Geoff

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  • yshish by yshish moderator

    Great question Geoff! I'm really curious what others will say.

    As for me, it's easy. I prefer the biological ones, like Hardwicke's science-gossip, The London journal of botany, The gardener's magazine.. I like browsing the others too, but I'm not always able to make up/find enough good key words in English for their illustrations which makes me feel not very helpful there, unlike for the biological ones, which are much easier for me. And I prefer classifying illustrations to charts/tables.

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  • jules by jules moderator

    I actually like to mix it up which is why I liked The Intellectual Observer. The colour plates were a treat too.

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  • jules by jules moderator

    Noticed this while browsing the BHL. Lovely journal full of animal and bird illustrations with detailed descriptions in the text.

    The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur : under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, during the years 1836-42

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  • yshish by yshish moderator in response to jules's comment.

    This one looks very nice! And so many colourful illustrations 😃

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  • yshish by yshish moderator

    I've found some books about Ctenophores with detailed illustrations I'd love to go through 😃 http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/118355#page/25/mode/1up

    BHL must be full of treasures like this!

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  • jules by jules moderator

    And I've just found this which combines lovely illustrations and Arctic exploration (a win, win combination in my opinion!)

    The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe

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  • geoffrey.belknap by geoffrey.belknap scientist

    These are great suggestion - we haven't yet started to think about books, rather than journal runs, but these definitely have great potential!

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  • yshish by yshish moderator in response to geoffrey.belknap's comment.

    Well, anything with detailed illustrations of plankton would be very appreciated on my side! 😉

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  • trosesandler by trosesandler scientist

    Actually that's a great idea - lets start a list of suggested books/journals to add to SG! We can take these into consideration when we are making decisions about what to add next

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  • yshish by yshish moderator

    Some of my finds:

    I've found more interesting ones, but then the BHL stopped working and gave me errors so I have lost all the links 😦

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  • jules by jules moderator

    And some of mine:

    • Cruise of the revenue-steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N.W. Arctic Ocean in 1881 : notes and memoranda: medical and anthropological,
      botanical, ornithological.

      http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109271#page/1/mode/1up (black and white and colour images of microscopical slides, birds, wildlife and indigenous people

    • The Arctic whaleman; or, Winter in the Arctic Ocean: being a narrative of the wreck of the whale ship Citizen ... Together with a brief history of whaling.

      http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53297#page/9/mode/1up (Drawings of Arctic scenes and whales. Ties in nicely with Old Weather: Whaling too!)

    • Modern whaling & bear-hunting : a record of present-day whaling with up-to-date appliances in many parts of the world, and of bear and
      seal hunting in the Arctic regions

      http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/82475#page/1/mode/1up (Illustrations of whaling, fish, bears – and some sea shanties too).

    • Northward over the "great ice" a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897
      http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98343#page/6/mode/1up (Lots of illustrations of Arctic exploration and explorers).

    • The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Herald under the command of Captain Henry Kellet, R.N., C.B., during the years 1845-51

      http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104626#page/8/mode/1up (Lots of images in this one – fish, fossils, animals, bones etc).

    • The wonders of the Arctic world: a history of all the researches and discoveries in the frozen regions of the North, from the earliest times.

      http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16942#page/1/mode/1up (Lots of Arctic related illustrations).

    • Earth, sea and sky, or, Marvels of the universe . . .

      http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100418#page/5/mode/1up (Split into sections (Earth, Sea and Sky) and jam-packed full of illustrations).

    • The natural history of British insects
      http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95046#page/5/mode/1up (With lots of colour plates)

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  • yshish by yshish moderator

    And what about:

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  • geoffrey.belknap by geoffrey.belknap scientist

    Hi everyone,

    These are really great! I've favourited this feed to come back to in the new year. We have already started preparing the journals for the next upload - which include some really cool periodicals covering more microscopy and botany.

    However, once we are through those we will have completed 22 Nat. Hist Journals - and were thinking that it would be good to extend the material towards books.

    Maybe once we are getting towards the completion of the next set, we could have a group vote about which 5 texts to upload after that. Would that be something that interests everyone?

    All the best,

    Geoff

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  • jules by jules moderator

    Sounds good to me!

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  • yshish by yshish moderator

    To me too!

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