Abstract
scan the frankly popular and apparently quite ephemeral matter so often contained in them. The journal in this instance is Loudon's Magazine ofNatural History, which began in May 1828, appearing at first bimonthly, price 3s. 6d. It was aimed originally at young people, but soon began to attract such a large following among naturalists of all ages and became so generally read that by 1835 it had turned into a medium for quite substantial scientific papers of wide general interest. In its pages in that year, for example, were published the important speculations of Edward Blyth, recently claimed as a crucial yet unacknowledged source of Darwin's main evolutionary hypotheses.2 Previous to this more learned period, however, there were many contributions of a light-hearted or
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