The British Journal of Experimental Biology

Institutions and innovation: experimental zoology and the creation of theBritish Journal of Experimental Biologyand the Society for Experimental Biology

“…With Marshall recruited the editorial board went public with the establishment of the BJEB in letters that were published in 1923 in Nature and Science in July and August respectively. 37 The Nature letter began with the acknowledgement that British zoologists had made some of the most important contributions to morphological research, but contemporary British biology compared 'very unfavourably with other countries in facilities for the publication of research in experimental biology, especially on the zoological side'. It was noted that the Journal of Genetics was the only British journal solely devoted to experimental work, while American zoologists could choose from the Journal of Experimental Zoology, the Biological Bulletin and the Journal of General Physiology.…”