Conservative attitudes to old-established organs: Oliver lodge and philosophical magazine

Notes and Records

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 321-336

  Clarke, Imogen ^a   Mussell, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Editing; Oliver Lodge; Periodicals; Philosophical Magazine; Physics; Refereeing

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HISTORY; PHYSICS; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE; EDITORIAL POLICIES; ENGLAND; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PHYSICS; PUBLISHING; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC;

EID: 84939129705     PISSN: 00359149     EISSN: 17430178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2015.0030     Document Type: Article

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1. Oliver Lodge, 'The "Philosophical Magazine"', Nature 108, 12 (1921).
2. 'Philosophical Magazine: Report by Research Committee', Scientific Worker (11 March), 29-30 (1922), at p. 29. Records of the Association of Scientific Workers (AScW), MSS.79/ASW/4/1/1, University of Warwick Modern Records Centre.
3. See W. H. Brock and A. J. Meadows, The lamp of learning: two centuries of publishing and Taylor and Francis, pp. 89-90 (1984; Taylor & Francis, London, 1998).
4. Oliver Lodge, Continuity: the Presidential Address to the British Association for 1913 (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1913).
5. See Jonathan R. Topham, 'Anthologizing the book of nature: the circulation of knowledge and the origins of the scientific journal in late Georgian Britain', in The circulation of knowledge between Britain, India and China: the early-modern world to the twentieth century (ed. Bernard Lightman, Gordon McOaut and Larry Stewart), pp. 119-152 (Brill, Leiden, 2013).
6. For Nicholson's Journal see Iain P. Watts, '"We want no authors": William Nicholson and the contested role of the scientific journal in Britain, 1797-1813', Br. J. Hist. Sci. 47, 397-419 (2014)
7. See Imogen Clarke, 'The gatekeepers of modern physics: periodicals and peer review in 1920s Britain', Isis 106, 74 (2015).
8. 'Physics and Chemistry Sectional Committee Minutes', 22 May 1913, Royal Society Archives.
9. For the Physical Society, see John L. Lewis, 125 years: the Physical Society and the Institute of Physics (Institute of Physics, Bristol, 1999)
10. Russell Moseley, 'Tadpoles and frogs: some aspects of the professionalization of British physics, 1870-1939', Social Stud. Sci. 7, 423-446 (1977).
11. Melinda Baldwin, '"Keeping in the race": physics, publication speed and national publishing strategies in Nature, 1895-1939', Br. J. Hist. Sci. 47, 257-279 (2014).
12. See also 'Obituary notice', Phil. Mag. 14, 727-728 (1932).
13. See also 'John Joly 1857-1933', Obit. Not. Fell. R. Soc. 1, 258-286 (1934)
14. Oliver Lodge, 'Obituary notice: Professor Joly', Phil. Mag. 17, 198-200 (1934).
15. Joseph Larmor to John Joly, 6 November 1910, papers of John Joly, Manuscripts and Archives Research Library, Trinity College, Dublin.
16. He would receive the Order of Merit in 1912. Isobel Falconer, 'Thomson, Sir Joseph John (1858-1895)', Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (see http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36506).
17. Graeme Gooday and Colin A. Hempstead, 'Foster, George Carey (1835-1919)', Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (see http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39488).
18. See also Oliver Lodge, 'George Carey Foster', Phil. Mag. 37, 317-320 (1919).
19. See W. P. Jolly, Oliver Lodge (Constable, London, 1984).
20. George Carey Foster and Oliver Lodge, 'On the Flow of Electricity in a uniform plane conducting Surface. Part I', Phil. Mag. 49, 385-400 (1875)
21. 'On the Flow of Electricity in a uniform plane conducting Surface. Part II', Phil. Mag. 49, 475-489 (1875).
22. This paper was recorded as having been read before the Physical Society on 27 February 1875, and it appeared in Proc. Phys. Soc. 1, 113-149 (1874-75).
23. For Tyndall's influence in his early life, see Oliver Lodge, Past years: an autobiography of Sir Oliver Lodge (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1931), pp. 65-66 and 75-77
24. For Lodge's work on dust, see Past years, pp. 174-175. It was published as Oliver Lodge and J. W. Clark, 'On the phenomena exhibited by dusty air in the neighbourhood of strongly illuminated bodies', Phil. Mag. 17, 214-239 (1884).
25. 'On the paths of electric energy in voltaic circuits. Appendix to paper on the seat of the electromotive forces in the voltaic cell', Phil. Mag. 19, 487-494 (1885), and a sequel, 'Sequel to paper on the seat of the electromotive forces in a voltaic cell.
26. Theories of Wiedemann and of Helmholtz', Phil. Mag. 20, 372-384 (1885). Details of the electrolysis committee are recorded in Lodge's scrapbooks, Book II, OJL/4, Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.
27. Lodge did not always see eye to eye with Thomson. See, for instance, their disagreement about radium, which was played out publicly in The Times in August 1906. See Kelvin, 'Radium', The Times (9 August), 3 (1906)
28. Oliver Lodge, 'Radium', The Times (15 August), 4 (1906)
29. Kelvin, 'Radium', The Times (20 August), 6 (1906)
30. Oliver Lodge, 'Radium', The Times (22 August), 4 (1906). The various letters were collected by Lodge in his scrapbooks; see Book XII, OJL/4, Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.
31. Iwan Morus, When physics became king (Chicago University Press, 2005), pp. 168-169.
32. For Fitzgerald, Lodge and Maxwellian theory, see Bruce Hunt, The Maxwellians (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1991)
33. Bruce Hunt, '"Our friend of brilliant ideas": G. F. Fitzgerald and the Maxwellian circle', Eur. Rev. 15, 531-541 (2007).
34. If each part is counted as a separate article, the total is 43. The back issues of Philosophical Magazine have been published as part of Taylor and Francis Online (2011-) (http://www. tandfonline.com (registration required)).
35. For Lodge's publications, see A bibliography of Sir Oliver Lodge FRS (compiled by Theodore Besterman) (Oxford University Press, 1935).
36. Oliver Lodge, 'On the theory of lightning-conductors', Phil. Mag. 26, 217-230 (1888). For his publications in the Electrician, see Besterman, op. cit. (note 41), pp. 18-21.
37. L. P. Jacks and G. Dawes Hicks, 'Editorial', Hibbert J. 1, 1-4 (1902), 3.
38. See for instance H. E. Armstrong's complaint that the public think Lodge 'the mouthpiece of the scientific fraternity', reported in 'The Midland Sage', Birmingham Daily Mail (19 January), 3 (1914).
39. 'Revolution in science', The Times (7 November), 12 (1919).
40. On the Solvay Congress, see Richard Staley, 'On the co-creation of classical and modern physics', Isis 96, 530-558 (2005).
41. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, pp. 7, 18, 19 (1913).
42. For example, Oliver Lodge, Atoms and rays: an introduction to modern views on atomic structure and radiation (Benn, London, 1924); idem, Relativity: a very elementary exposition (Methuen, London, 1925)
43. idem, Modern scientific ideas, especially the idea of discontinuity: being the substance of the talks on 'atoms and worlds' broadcast during October and November, 1926 (Benn, London, 1927).
44. Oliver Lodge, 'The new outlook in physics', Discovery 10, 109-112 (1929), at p. 109.
45. On the Millikan-Ehrenhaft dispute, see Gerald Holton, 'Subelectrons, presuppositions, and the Millikan-Ehrenhaft dispute', Hist. Stud. Phys. Sci. 9, 161-224 (1978)
46. Barry Barnes, David Bloor and John Henry, Scientific knowledge: a sociological analysis (A.&C. Black, London, 1996), ch. 2.
47. Oliver Lodge to William Francis, 3 March 1924. OJL/1/395/1, Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.
48. Felix Ehrenhaft, 'The electrical behaviour of radioactive colloidal particles of the order of 1025 cm. as observed separately in a gas', Phil. Mag. 49, 633-648 (1925), at p. 648.
49. Oliver Lodge to Taylor & Francis, 19 November 1924, OJL/1/395/3, Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.
50. Ernest Rutherford, 'The scattering of alpha and beta particles by matter and the structure of the atom', Phil. Mag. 21, 669-688 (1911)
51. Niels Bohr, 'On the constitution of atoms and molecules, part I', Phil. Mag. 26, 1-24 (1913)
52. Niels Bohr, 'On the constitution of atoms and molecules, part II. Systems containing only a single nucleus', Phil. Mag. 26, 476-502 (153)
53. Niels Bohr, 'On the constitution of atoms and molecules, part III. Systems containing several nuclei', Phil. Mag. 26, 857-875 (1913). It is likely that Bohr, who collaborated with Rutherford in Manchester, was influenced in his choice of publication by his colleague.
54. C. G. Darwin to Richardson, 29 April 1924, papers of Owen Willans Richardson, Archive for the History of Quantum Physics [microfilm]. Darwin noted that he read 'practically no other papers' beyond those in Philosophical Magazine, Proceedings, the German Zeitschrift für Physik and the American Physical Review.
55. On Darwin, see Jaume Navarro, '"A dedicated missionary". Charles Galton Darwin and the new quantum mechanics in Britain', Stud. Hist. Phil. Mod. Phys. 40, 316-326 (2009).
56. Helge Kragh, 'Resisting the Bohr atom: the early British opposition', Phys. Perspect. 13, 4-35 (2011), at p. 6
57. James Hopwood Jeans, Report on radiation and the quantum-theory ('The Electrician' Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd., London, 1914).
58. Matthew Stanley, 'So simple a thing as a star: the Eddington-Jeans debate over astrophysical phenomenology', Br. J. Hist. Sci. 40, 53-82 (2007).
59. Oliver Lodge to Joseph Larmor, 18 September 1922, Larmor Papers, Royal Society Archives.
60. J. J. Thomson to Oliver Lodge, 11 July 1931 and Oliver Lodge to Taylor & Francis, 18 July 1931, OJL1/404/40 and OJL/1/395/5, Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.
61. J. J. Thomson to Professor A. W. Porter, 5 January 1933, MM/9/39, Royal Society Archives.
62. P. M. S. Blackett toW. H. Bragg, 8 November 1937, the papers of Professor A. V. Hill, Churchill Archives Centre, University of Cambridge.
63. Oliver Lodge, 'Atomic theory and radioactivity', Sci. Prog. 8, 197-201 (1913), at p. 197.