The Phytologist

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]

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

• James Backhouse (botanist, 1825–1890)^[9]
• John Baker Gilbert^[10]
• William Borrer^[11]
• William Arnold Bromfield^[12]
• Thomas Edmondston^[13]
• Edward Forster the younger^[14]
• George Stacey Gibson^[15]
• Samuel Gibson^[16]
• Amelia Warren Griffiths^[17]
• Henry Ibbotson^[18]
• Mary Kirby^[19]
• George Maw (1832–1912)^[20]
• William Mathews^[21]
• John Stuart Mill^[5]
• William Mitten^[22]
• David Moore^[23]
• Daniel Oliver^[24]
• Edwin John Quekett^[25]
• John Ralfs^[26]
• John Drew Salmon^[27]
• Gerard Edward Smith^[28]
• Richard Spruce^[29]
• Hugh Ashworth Stowell^[30]
• Thomas Taylor^[31]
• George Henry Kendrick Thwaites^[32]
• Hewett Cottrell Watson^[33]
• Joseph Woods^[34]

The New Phytologist

The New Phytologist was launched by Arthur Tansley in 1902, with a conscious nod to it 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. 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. Frank N. Egerton, History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 36: Hewett Watson, Plant Geographer and Evolutionist, Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Vol. 91, No. 3 (July 2010), pp. 294–312, at p. 300. Published by: Wiley Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/bullecosociamer.91.3.294
8. Martin I. Bidartondo, The Evolutionary Ecology of Myco-Heterotrophy, The New Phytologist Vol. 167, No. 2 (Aug., 2005), pp. 335–352. Published by: Wiley on behalf of the New Phytologist Trust. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3694504
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 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. 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. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) Vol. 1912, No. 3 (1912), pp. 155–160, at p. 155. Published by: Springer on behalf of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4104570
21. Miscellaneous Notes, Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) Vol. 1906, No. 5 (1906), pp. 173–192, at p. 174. Published by: Springer on behalf of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4111300
22. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) Vol. 1906, No. 7 (1906), pp. 271–296, at p. 283. Published by: Springer on behalf of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4118222
23.  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Moore, David". Dictionary of National Biography 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 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 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
31.  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Taylor, Thomas (d.1848)". Dictionary of National Biography 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. David H. Lewis and Jonathan Ingram, A Brief History of New Phytologist, The New Phytologist, Vol. 153, No. 1 (Jan., 2002), pp. 10–16. Published by: Wiley on behalf of the New Phytologist Trust Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1513903