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The Entomologist edit

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Whoever wrote up most of this section covering The Entomologist probably just copied blindly how BHL organises or titles the volumes, without double checking or reading up on the actual history of the publication, as far as I can tell.

Missing or inaccurate information include the following:

Volume 1 was actually published by John Van Voorst, and volumes 4 onward to volume 47 were published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co. So far as I can tell Newman himself only published volumes 2 and 3.
At the end of volume 1 (link), a notice is given stating that The Entomologist will cease publication but will be continued in spirit by The Zoologist:

The Entomologist under its present title will now cease, but the spirit of the work, more particularly as regards those brief but highly-interesting communications which my correspondents have from time to time contributed to the chapter entitled "Varieties," will be continued in the pages of the Zoologist.

However, The Entomologist was revived once again in 1864 (seemingly by popular demand, judging by the preface [1]).
All the first nine volumes of The Entomologist have the alternate title "Newman's Entomologist", but always in the format where "Newman's Entomologist" comes first but on a page with just the volume number, and "The Entomologist" on a seemingly proper title page with subtitle, an illustration and publisher details. I don't entirely understand why BHL decided that the first four volumes' main title was "The Entomologist" and the next five were instead "Newman's Entomologist", as both these two titles are given and presented in the same way in all nine volumes. In any case, "Newman's Entomologist" no longer appeared after Newman died in 1876, and the main title from there becomes unambiguously "The Entomologist".
According to ISSN Portal and SUDOC, volume 1 of The Entomologist (1840 to 1842) has its own ISSN 1359-1908, while volume 2 onwards (1864 onwards) have the ISSN 0013-8878. These clearly correspond with The Entomologist's original run before The Zoologist, and its revival in 1864, but unfortunately they don't fit nicely with BHL's division of the series. Oh well.

Monster Iestyn (talk) 00:32, 29 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

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