Project: The Zoologist
The Zoologist was a natural history magazine, first published in 1843 in London.The last volume was published in 1916. It appeared in four series (volumes in process of proofreading specified):
- First series: 1843 – 1865 ( vol. 1 – 23), edited by Edward Newman
- Second series: 1866 – 1876 (vol. 1 – 10), also edited by Newman
- Third series: 1877 – 1896 (vol. 1 – 20), edited by James Edmund Harting
- Fourth series: 1897 – 1916 (vol. 1 – 20), edited by William Lucas Distant
For an overview of all series and all issues, see this page in BHL.
ToDo edit
Resolve problems finding information about certain authors in Zoologist.
check all contributions to 'Notes and Queries' edit
- 4th series, vol 3 (1899)—all
Done (2022)
4th series, vol 6 (1902) edit
- issue 727, Jan— Done (2022-07-07)
- issue 728, Feb— Done (2022-07-27)
- issue 729, March— Done (2022-11-03)
- issue 730, April— Done (2022-11-27)
and to 'Notices of New Books' edit
- Issue 696— Done (2022-07-03)
rem: examples of review:
- Author:Alfred Russel Wallace (3rd series, vol 1, 1877)
- Author:Robert Collett (4th series vol 1, 1897)
- Author:Louis Robinson - vol 2 (1898)
2024 edit
Authors started edit
(don't forget the Author-index!)
- Author:Henry Wilbraham Hadfield (2024-04-01)
- Author:Jan Willem Boudewijn Gunning (2024-03-07)
- Author:John Colquhoun (2024-01-27)
- Author:Josiah Wood Whymper (illustrator, 2024-01-11)
issues in main namespace edit
- 3rd series, vol 1 (1877):
- issue 5, May Done (2024-02-15)
- issue 6, June Done (2024-03-07)
- issue 7, July Done (2024-03-12)
- issue 8, August Done (2024-03-17)
- issue 9, September Done (2024-03-20)
- issue 5, May
2023 edit
Authors started edit
(don't forget the Author-index!)
- Author:John Pennington Thomasson (2023-11-24)
- Author:George John Dumville Lees (2023-11-23)
- Author:Frank Norgate (2023-11-19)
- Author:Gulielma Lister (2023-10-17)
- Author:Arthur Lister (2023-10-14)
- Author:John Rocke (2023-10-11)
- Author:Henry Doddridge Gordon (2023-10-07)
- Author:Edgar Albert Smith (2023-10-03)
- Author:Alexander William Maxwell Clark-Kennedy (2023-10-01)
- Author:Joseph William Dunning (2023-09-14 <- must be checked!)
- Author:Henry Horrocks Slater (2023-09-01; thanx to Billinghurst!)
- Author:Ludwig Heinrich Jeitteles (2023-08-18)
- Author:Charles Bean Euan-Smith (2023-08-17)
- Author:Beresford Lovett (2023-08-17)
- Author:Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St John (2023-08-17)
- Author:Francis Buchanan White (2023-08-15)
- Author:Frederick Shaw Mitchell (2023-07-31)
- Author:Hugh Boyd Watt (2023-05-06)
- Author:Samuel Stevens (1817-1899) (2023-03-29)
- Author:William Richard Fisher (2023-03-22)
- Author:Henry George Vennor (2023-02-01)
- Author:John William Douglas (2023-01-28)
- Author:John Joseph Briggs (2023-01-21; start)
- Author:Robert Coane Roberts Jordan (2023-01-20; in progress)
- Author:Frederick Bond (2023-01-16)
- Author:George Norman (1823-1882) (2023-01-15)
- Author:Frederick Smith (1805-1879) (2023-01-08) still very incomplete!
issues in main namespace edit
- 3rd series, vol 1 (1877):
- issue 1, January Done (2023-08-02)
- issue 2, February Done (2023-08-18)
- issue 3, March Done (2023-08-19)
- issue 4, April Done (2023-11-21)
- issue 1, January
- 4th series, vol 2 (1898):
- issue 686, August Done (2023-01-13)
- issue 687, September Done (2023-01-19)
- issue 688, October Done (2023-01-19)
- issue 689, November Done (2023-02-13)
- issue 690, December Done (2023-02-23)
- issue 686, August
2022 edit
started:
- The Zoologist, 3rd series, vol 2 (1878) (transcription project) (2022-02-27)
- The Zoologist, 1st series, vol 1 (1843) (transcription project) (2022-04-13)
- The Zoologist, 1st series, vol 4 (1846) (transcription project) (was already started)
issues in main namespace edit
- 4th series, vol 5 (1901):
- Issue 722 (August, 1901) Done (2022-01-13)
- Issue 723 (September, 1901) Done (2022-01-15)
- Issue 724 (October, 1901) Done (2022-02-03)
- Issue 725 (November, 1901) Done (2022-02-15)
- Issue 726 (December, 1901) Done (2022-03-01)
- Issue 722 (August, 1901)
- 4th series, vol 6 (1902):
- Issue 727, January Done (2022-03-08)
- Issue 728, February Done (2022-06-15)
- Issue 729, March Done (2022-06-16)
- Issue 730, April Done (2022-06-18)
- Issue 731, May Done (2022-06-26)
- Issue 732, June Done (2022-07-02)
- Issue 733, July Done (2022-07-06)
- Issue 734, August Done (2022-07-15)
- Issue 735, September Done (2022-07-19)
- Issue 736, October Done (2022-07-27)
- Issue 737, November Done (2022-08-02)
- Issue 738, December Done (2022-08-10)
- Issue 727, January
- 4th series, vol 1 (1897):
- issue 667, January Done (2022-08-27)
- issue 668, February Done (2022-08-30)
- issue 669, March Done (2022-09-04)
- issue 670, April Done (2022-09-10)
- issue 671, May Done (2022-09-15)
- issue 672, June Done (2022-09-28)
- issue 673, July Done (2022-09-29) incl Wikidata (thanks to User:RaboKarbakian)
- issue 674, August Done (2022-10-06)
- issue 675, September Done (2022-10-10)
- issue 676, October Done (2022-10-17)
- issue 677, November Done (2022-10-26)
- issue 678, December Done (2022-11-12)
- issue 667, January
- 4th series, vol 2 (1898):
- issue 679, January Done (2022-11-13)
- issue 680, February Done (2022-11-20)
- issue 681, March Done (2022-11-26)
- issue 682, April Done (2022-12-01)
- issue 683, May Done (2022-12-03)
- issue 684, June Done (2022-12-13)
- issue 685, July Done (2022-12-20)
- issue 679, January
Authors started edit
- Author:Richard Hugh Ramsbotham (2022-11-26)
- Author:Henry Reeks (2022-11-14)
- Author:Robert Collett (2022-11-13) <- populateǃ
- Author:Henry Doubleday (1808-1875) (2022-11-11)
- Author:Percy Rendall (2022-10-04)
- Author:William Carmichael M'Intosh (2022-09-29) <- populateǃ
- Author:William Oxenden Hammond (2022-09-18)
- Author:Bernard A.E. Buttress (2022-09-18 <- try to find more (verifiable) information!)
- Author:Charles Green (1734-1771) (2022-09-17)
- Author:Henry Nash Pashley (2022-09-16)
- Author:Maurice Charles Hilton Bird (2022-09-03)
- Author:Knut Dahl (2022-08-18)
- Author:Gustav Jäger (1832-1917) (2022-08-13)
- Author:Edward Arthur Fitch (2022-08-10)
- Author:Thomas Southall Dymond (2022-08-09)
- Author:Frank Mervyn Littler (2022-07-29)
- Author:Edward Newton (2022-07-08) <- check for possibilities of expansion!!!
- Author:William Borrer (1814-1898) (2022-07-06)
- Author:Hugh Francis Arthur Leyborne Popham (2022-06-29)
- Author:John Gordon Dalgliesh (2022-06-28)
- Author:Alfred Heneage Cocks (2022-06-26)
- Author:Cecil Smith (2022-06-18)
- Author:Alfred Henry Garrod (2022-06-16)
- Author:Charles Bethune Horsbrugh (2022-06-06)
- Author:Julian George Tuck (2022-06-02)
- Author:Wesley Theodore Page (2022-05-31) <- still a lot of work to be done!
- Author:Edward Henry Stuart Bligh, 7th Earl of Darnley ("Lord Clifton") (2022-05-29)
- Author:Frederick Boyes (2022-05-28)
- Author:John Gatcombe (2022-05-24)
- Author:Selmar Schonland (2022-05-22)
- Author:William Westropp Flemyng (2022-04-13)
- Author:Lionel Ernest Adams (2022-03-15)
- Author:Charles Matthew Prior (2022-03-14)
- Author:Harold John Hastings Russell (2022-03-09)
- Author:Edward Hearle Rodd (2022-03-07)
- Author:Arthur Phillip Morres (2022-03-06) <- elementary
- Author:Frederick Coburn (2022-02-14) <- still has a lot of "estimates"!
- Author:Thomas Wingfield Webber (2022-02-08)
- Author:Dean Sage (2022-02-06)
- Author:William Charles Harris (2022-02-06)
- Author:Oliver Erichson Janson (2022-02-03)
- Author:Joseph Louis Bevir (2022-02-01) <- still has a lot of "estimates"
- Author:Edward Ernest Green (2022-01-21)
- Author:Horace Marmaduke Langdale (2022-01-20)
- Author:Philip James Rufford (2022-01-11)
- Author:William Percival Westell
checked all contributions to 'Notes and Queries' edit
4th series, vol 3 (1899) edit
- starting with: issue 691, January— Done (2022-03-08)
- issue 692— Done (2022-03-09)
- issue 693— Done (2022-03-15)
- issue 694— Done (2022-03-17)
- issue 695— Done (2022-06-29)
- issue 696, June— Done (2022-07-03)
- issue 697, July— Done (2022-08-10)
- issue 698, August— Done (2022-08-24)
- issue 699, September— Done (2022-08-27)
- issue 700, October— Done (2022-08-29)
- issue 701, November— Done (2022-10-26)
- issue 702, December— Done (2022-11-12)
Misc. edit
- Distant, William Lucas (1901-1902)—'Biological Suggestions: Animal Sense Perceptions,' (published in two parts in issues 723 and 731)
- split the 4 series:
- Dalgliesh, Gordon (1902)—'Birds Collected and Observed in the Darbhanga Districts, Tirhoot, Bengal,' in 3 parts
- Bucknill, John Alexanders Strachey (1902)—'Ornithological Notes from Surrey,' in 2 parts
2021 edit
- 3rd series (1877–1896), Editor Harting, J.E.F.
- (1877) - The Zoologist, 3rd series, vol 1 (transcription project) (2021-08-29)
issues in main namespace edit
- 4th series, vol 4 (1900):
- Issue 707 (May, 1900) Done (2021-01-18) incl. Wikidata <- to do: W.J. Williams!
- Issue 708 (June, 1900) Done (2021-07-31)
- Issue 709 (July, 1900) Done (2021-08-05)
- Issue 710 (August, 1900) Done (2021-08-22)
- Issue 711 (September, 1900) Done (2021-09-01)
- Issue 712 (October, 1900) Done (2021-09-04)
- Issue 713 (November, 1900) Done (2021-09-09)
- Issue 714 (December, 1900) Done (2021-09-13)
- Issue 707 (May, 1900)
- 4th series, vol 5 (1901):
- Issue 715 (January, 1901) Done (2021-09-24)
- Issue 716 (February, 1901) Done
- Issue 717 (March, 1901) Done
- Issue 718 (April, 1901) Done (2021-12-16)
- Issue 719 (May, 1901) Done (2021-12-17)
- Issue 720 (June, 1901) Done (2021-12-19)
- Issue 721 (July, 1901) Done (2021-12-25)
- Issue 715 (January, 1901)
Authors edit
- Author:Philip Savile Grey Reid (2021-12-05)
- Author:Murray Alexander Mathew (2021-11-30)
- Author:William Stewart Mitchell d'Urban (2021-11-27)
- Guillaume Severin (2021-11-20)
- Ernest Douglas Wintle (2021-11-20)
- Rodway Charles John Swinhoe (2021-11-06)
- Author:Alexander Goodman More (2021-10-14)
- William Edward de Winton (2021-10-13)
- Fitzwilliam Thomas Pollok (2021-10-07)
- Alfred Lionel Lewis (2021-09-30)
- Edwin Philip Butterfield (2021-09-27)
- Karl Brunner von Wattenwyl (2021-09-19)
- Author:Malcolm Burr (2021-09-13)
- Author:William Arthur Durnford (2021-09-02)
- Author:Henry Durnford (2021-09-02)
- Author:Gerald Rowley Leighton (2021-08-30)
- Author:James Stuart Thomson (2021-08-29)
- Author:Thomas Prichard Newman (the son of Author:Edward Newman) (2021-08-26)
- Author:Francis Linley Blathwayt (2021-08-22)
- Author:Charles William Benson (2021-08-01)
- Author:Arnold Hilary Meiklejohn (2021-07-31)
- Author:George William Bradshaw (2021-07-29)
- Author:Edward Bartlett (2021-07-28)
- Author:Robert Godfrey (1872-1948) (2021-07-17)
- Author:Robert Newstead (2021-06-13)
- Author:George Bentley Corbin (2021-03-25)
- Author:Harry Wallis Kew (2021-02-16)
Misc. edit
- Selous, Edmund (1901-1902)—'An Observational Diary of the Habits—Mostly Domestic—of the Great Crested Grebe (Podicipes cristatus) [and of the Peewit (Vanellus vulgaris), with Some General Remarks] (published in four parts in issues 719, 723, 726 and 730)
2020 edit
- The Zoologist/4th series, vol 1 (1897) (transcription project) (2020-05-20)
- The Zoologist/4th series, vol 2 (1898) (transcription project) (2020-12-14)
- The 'cascading'-work is up and running. (2020-06-17)
- 4th series, vol 3 (1899)
- Issue 691 (January, 1899) Done
- Issue 692 (February, 1899) Done
- Issue 693 (March, 1899) Done
- Issue 694 (April, 1899) Done (2020-07-09)
- Issue 695 (May, 1899) Done (2020-07-29) and the Wikidata-entries!
- Issue 696 (June, 1899) Done (2020-08-07) incl. Wikidata
- Issue 697 (July, 1899) Done (2020-08-22) incl. Wikidata
- Issue 698 (August, 1899) Done (2020-08-29) incl. Wikidata
- Issue 699 (September, 1899) Done (sept 2020) incl. Wikidata
- Issue 700 (October, 1899) Done (2020-10-11) incl. Wikidata
- Issue 701 (November, 1899) Done (2020-10-16) incl. Wikidata
- Issue 702 (December, 1899) Done (2020-10-16) incl. Wikidata
- Issue 691 (January, 1899)
- 4th series, vol 4 (1900)
- Issue 703 (January, 1900) Done (2020-10-23) incl. Wikidata
- Issue 704 (February, 1900) Done (2020-12-09) incl. Wikidata
- Issue 705 (March, 1900) Done (2020-12-21) incl. Wikidata
- Issue 706 (April, 1900) Done (2020-12-25) incl. Wikidata
- Issue 703 (January, 1900)
- 4th series, vol 3 (1899)
- for publications that cover more than one issue of the journal, see for instance:
Authors edit
- Author:Charles William Andrews (2020-10-09)
- Author:Reginald Badham Lodge (2020-10-08)
- Author:Arthur Cowell Stark (2020-10-03, a quickie)
- Author:Charles Thomas Bingham (2020-08-29)
- Author:James Alexander Brewer (2020-08-15)
- Author:John Alexander Harvie-Brown (2020-08-07)
- Author:Alwin Karl Haagner (2020-07-24)
- Author:Abraham Dee Bartlett (2020-07-13)
- Author:George Henry Caton Haigh (2020-07-09)
- Author:Robert Warren (1829-1915) (2020-05-05)
Misc. edit
- Distant, William Lucas (1899)—'The "Sea-Elephant" (Macrorhinus elephantinus)' (2020-05-14)
- Farman, Last Cutting (1899)—'Notes from the Haddiscoe Marshes (Norfolk)' (2020-05-14)
- Author:J. Lewis Bonhote (2020-05-02)
- Distant, William Lucas (1899–1900)—'Biological Suggestions. Mimicry'. Published (in five parts) in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol. 3, issue 697 (July, 1899), p. 289–315 (part I), issue 698 (August, 1899), p. 341–363 (part II), issue 700 (October, 1899), p. 443–470 (part III), issue 702 (December, 1899), p. 529–553 (part IV), and 4th series, vol. 4, issue 705 (March, 1900), p. 116–130 (part V).
- make links to/from: Guy A.K. Marshall (1900) - 'Organic Evolution', issue 709 (July, 1900), p. 327–p. 334,
- and: Guy A.K. Marshall (1900) - 'Conscious Protective Resemblance', issue 714 (December, 1900), p. 536–549,
- and: Edward B. Poulton (1900) - 'Remarks on the Preceding Paper', issue 714 (December, 1900), p. 550-554.
- Mackay, Hugh (1899)—'Ornithological Notes from Malta' (2020-04-18)
- Arrigoni degli Oddi, Ettore (1899)—'The Nesting of the Black Kite (Milvus migrans) in the Territory of Verona (2020-04-16)
- Cronwright-Schreiner, S.C. (1899)—'The Trek-bokke (Gazella euchore) of the Cape Colony (2020-04-11; update link 2020-07-29)
- Author:Arthur Henry Patterson (2020-04-11)
- Author:William Ruskin Butterfield (2020-04-05)
- Cordeaux, John (1899)—'Early Spring Migrations' (2020-04-02; update 2020-07-29)
- Author:John Alexander Strachey Bucknill (2020-03-28)
- Rey, Eugène (1899) - 'What is the Reason of the Great Variation in Cuckoos' Eggs' (2020-03-23, incl. Author-page)
- Fox, William Storrs (1899) - 'The Coloration of British Birds and Their Eggs' (2020-03-10; incl. Author-page)
- Gurney, J.H. (1900) - 'A Short History of the Bearded Titmouse (2020-01/2021-08)
2019 edit
- Basil Davies (1899) - 'Fecundity in Each Avine Species, Varying According to Accidents of Locality (2019-12-12)
- Millar, A.D. (1899) - 'Zoological Notes from Natal (2019-11-05)
- Author:Ernst Hartert (2019-08-20)
- Author:William Aitcheson Haswell (2019-08-07)
- Author:Herbert Edward Forrest (2019-07-31)
- Southwell, Thomas - 'Notes on the Seal and Whale Fishery, 1898,' in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 3 (1899), issue 693 (March, 1899), p. 103–112 (2019-07-26)
- Author:Thomas Southwell (1831-1909) (2019-07-26)
- Gurney Jr., John Henry — 'Ornithological Record from Norfolk for 1898,' in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 3 (1899), issue 693 (March, 1899), p. 113–128 (2019-07-25)
- Rope, George Thomas — 'Observations on the Common Toad (Bufo vulgaris),' in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol. 3, issue 693 (March, 1899), p. 97–102 (2019-07-23)
- Graves, Frank Stanley & Ralfe, Pilcher George — 'Notes on Shetland Birds,' in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 3, issue 692 (February, 1899), p. 72–77
- Author:Henry Eeles Dresser (1838-1915) (2019-07-12)
- Distant, W.L. (ed.) (1902)—The Zoologist/4th series, vol 6 (1902) (transcription project) 2022-02-12: completely proofread.
- Distant, W.L. (ed.) (1901)—The Zoologist/4th series, vol 5 (1901) (transcription project) 2021-05-06: completely proofread.
2022-02-27: all issues completely transcluded. - Author:John Cordeaux (1831-1899) (2019-04-03)
- Author:Henry Bendelack Hewetson (2019-04-02)
- Author:William John Lucas (2019-03-29) (with harvnb)
- Salter, J.H. (1899) - 'Ornithological Notes from Northern Norway,' in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol. 3, issue 692 (February, 1899), p. 54-71
- Oldham, Charles (1899) - 'Whiskered Bat (Myotis mystacinus) in captivity,' in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol. 3, issue 692 (February, 1899), p. 49-53
- W(illiam) Storrs Fox (1899) - 'Varying Fecundity in Birds,' in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol. 3, issue 691 (January, 1899), p. 23-26
- Marshall, Guy A.K. (1900) - 'Conscious Protective Resemblance,' in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol. 4, issue 714, December 1900, p. 536–554 (comments on Distant, W.L. (1899/1900) – 'Biological Suggestions' etc.); with some remarks by Edward B. Poulton (p. 550–554).
2018 edit
started working on this:
- Distant, W.L. (ed.) (1900)—The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 4 (1900) (transcription project) (2018-11-13) 2020-05-12: completely proofread.
all issues completely transcluded. - Distant, W.L. (ed.) (1899)—The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 3 (1899) (transcription project) (2018-09-25) 2019-06-04: completely proofread.
all issues completely transcluded. - Selous, Edmund (1899) - 'An Observational Diary of the Habits of Nightjars (Caprimulgus europæus), Mostly of a Sitting Pair. Notes Taken at Time and on Spot.' In: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol. 3, issue 699 (September, 1899, p. 388-402) and issue 701 (November, 1899, p. 486-505).