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300 YEARS OF NATURE JOURNALISM Illustrated and Annotated Titles of Nature Magazines and Journals of Today and Yesteryear â 1993 Michael J Bezilla Pine Hall The Plains VA 20198 USA cheroerolscom Cover illustration Adjutant stork on leafstrewn mud A Bunschoten Nature image plucked from a BMUK Petersons Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America 1980 Houghton Mifflin Company Boston New York Foreword For him who loves nature this booklet will be a gold mine of information about natural history periodicals For him who loves libraries this booklet will be a challenge to collect all these journals For him who loves the game of natural history this booklet will be a checklist of interesting goals for the next 300 years Prof Edward O Wilson Harvard University Nature Fellow from Professor E O Wilson who graced the cover of the first issue of NATURE magazine London on 4 November 1869 See page 3 The single English word nature has been the title or part of the title of many natural history journals and magazines offering general coverage of nature natural history or science as opposed to more specific subjects such as ornithology botany or mammalogy This booklet covers those journals their successors and other related journals Designed to give publishers and writers ideas regarding titles for new natural history journals keeping in mind the need for differentiation from established journals Compiled only from existing library and book information and not from publishers For small collectors the references can be a guide for a useful small library or a specialized collection of nature literature This booklet grows yearly with input from naturalists across the United States and many other countries Comments and additions welcome Editor Michael J Bezilla Pine Hall The Plains VA 20198 USA cheroerolscom Despite the worldwide nature of the book much of the information comes from the United States and Great Britain where the majority of these journals and magazines are published Copies of many of the magazines can be found in most medium to large public or university libraries Current 1993 information about subscriptions can be obtained from the publishers Good hunting This booklet was in preparation from 1984 to 1993 and partially published as NATURE JOURNALISM issues Nos 14 in 19901991 Thanks to many naturalists E O Wilson Mark Catesby Duncan S MacDonald British Library Brian Marshall Chris Hauf Leo Valdez Deb Turner National Wildlife Federation Mark Beard Virginia Tech Virginia Burggraf and many others After three centuries of natural history publishing the total number of titles is surprisingly small One must not forget that there are many more individual Natural History titles specific to one subject area such as insects rocks botany mainly published by clubs and societies around the world The format of the book is like an annotated card catalog Entries are listed chronologically with briefly annotated titles and known dates of publication alt titles and successors to the journal or magazine if known Often some history of the journal or society is given This text in appropriate places is both detailed and annotated The later journals are annotated with abbreviations of special features including period of publication size and format and type if known with some price references when known The key to these abbreviations is on page 19 This booklet is works in progress Though we hope it is very accurate corrections are invited Please refer to the person or library who owns the physical copies of the publications for final clarification Updated regularly on Internet worldwideweb ehem Also look for Magazine Keeper available from the editor a computer based program for keeping track of your natural history magazine library It is humorous to note the blue slip when visiting any library requesting Nature journal no 1 2 or 8 Obviously many libraries depend on exchange with other libraries or online access instead of mounting a large inventory of past periodicals for many natural history journals Reference Bezilla M J 2002 updated 2009 300 Years of Nature Journalism illustrated and annotated titles of nature journals and magazines with successor titles Unpubl ms 35 pp 2001 edition Pine Hall The Plains VA wwwercolcomnaturejournalism or wwwpinehallcomnaturejournalism