British
Journal for the History of Science; DOI:10.1017/S0007087411000847.
Institutions
and innovation: experimental zoology and the creation of the British Journal of
Experimental Biology and the Society for Experimental Biology
Steindór J.
Erlingsson
Abstract:
This
paper throws light on the development of experimental zoology in Britain by
focusing on the establishment of the British Journal of Experimental Biology
(BJEB) and the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) in 1923. The key actors
in this story were Lancelot T. Hogben, Julian S. Huxley and Francis A.E. Crew,
who started exploring the possibility of establishing an experimentally
oriented zoological journal in 1922. In order to support the BJEB and further
the cause of the experimental approach, Hogben, Crew, Huxley and their
colleagues decided to found a society, which led to the formation of the SEB.
From its inception the journal was plagued with difficulties that led to the
merger of the BJEB and the Biological Proceedings (BP) of the Cambridge
Philosophical Society in the autumn of 1925. Also discussed are the views that
the leading proponents of experimental zoology in Britain in the 1920s
expressed towards morphology and how their views further complicate the already
much modified "revolt from morphology" thesis.
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