''Science-Gossip'' was the common name for two series of monthly

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s, that were published from 1865 to 1893 and from 1894 to 1902. The first series was called ''Hardwicke's Science-Gossip'', and the second series ''Science-Gossip''.

Bibliographic information

* 1865-1893: ''Hardwicke's Science-Gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature''. Edited by M.C. Cooke & J.E. Taylor. London:

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of volumes of ''Hardwicke's Science-Gossip'' (1865-1893), with links to all volumes, online available in

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(retrieved 2015-05-31). succeeded by: * 1894-1902: ''Science-Gossip: An Illustrated Monthly Record of Nature and Country-Lore''. New Series. Edited by John T. Carrington. London / Berlin: Simpking Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd / R. Friedländer & Sohn.Se
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of volumes in the "New Series", with links to all the volumes, online available in BHL (retrieved 2015-05-31).

Owners and editors

From 1865 to 1893 the (''Hardwicke's'') ''Science-Gossip'' was published by Robert Hardwicke (London). The first editor was the

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Mordecai Cubitt Cooke. In 1872 he was succeeded by

John Ellor Taylor John Ellor Taylor (1837, Levenshulme, England–1895, Ipswich, England) was an English popular science writer, journalist and museum curator. Early life The eldest son of William Taylor (died 1864), foreman in a Lancashire cotton-factory, and h ...

, the year in which Taylor became curator of the Ipswich Museum. Taylor had founded a Science-Gossip Society in

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in 1868, and in 1869 a similar club for young men was formed in Ipswich in emulation of it, as a revival of the dormant Ipswich Philosophical Society. On removing to Ipswich, and taking up the editorship of the magazine, Taylor became the central figure of the Ipswich group. His health collapsed in 1893. In 1893 John T. Carrington became proprietor of ''Science-Gossip'', which he edited until 1902. In 1899 "the favourite journal for amateurs devoted to Natural, Physical, and Applied Sciences," entered offices at 110 Strand, London. The editor, John T. Carrington, was then assisted by Miss F. Winstone. 'Editorial Gleanings,' in: '' The Zoologist,'' 4th series, vol. 3, p. 47 ( issue 691, January 1899). After a few successful years the publication failed, probably for economic reasons. This was perhaps regretted most by people who read it at society meetings and never bought their own copies. The idea underlying ''Science-Gossip'' was to provide for scientific studies what ''

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'' provides for literary studies. ''Science Gossip'' is cited over 100 times in Alfred Cotgreave's 1900 contents-subject index.

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