The Editor's Report on the Journal of Zoology for 1998

During the year, 173 papers have been published in the 12 monthly parts of volumes 244-246. Since January 1998 the Journal has been published by Cambridge University Press and I hope that all subscribers are happy with the new format. At present there is a nine month period between acceptance and publication of papers.     

You wrote it; you own it!

Authors of papers published in Rockefeller University Press journals (The Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, or The Journal of General Physiology) now retain copyright to their published work. This permits authors to reuse their own work in any way, as long as they attribute it to the original publication. Third parties may use our published materials under a Creative Commons license, six months after publication.     

You wrote it; you own it!

Authors of papers published in Rockefeller University Press journals (The Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, or The Journal of General Physiology) now retain copyright to their published work. This permits authors to reuse their own work in any way, as long as they attribute it to the original publication. Third parties may use our published materials under a Creative Commons license, six months after publication.     

History, Memory, and Nation in the (Post)Colonies

Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization. John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 243 pp.
Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific. Jeannerte Marie Mageo. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. 222 pp.
In Colonial New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives. Naomi M. McPherson. ed. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. 264 pp.     

A great adventure: from quantitative metabolism to the revelation of Chinese science

By the end of the 1930s, Frederick Gowland Hopkins had built his Cambridge laboratory into the pre-eminent institute of biochemistry that was a magnet for scientists from all over the world. Even so, it was an exceptional event that saw a young Chinese student leave a homeland at that time relatively isolated from the West and embark on a research career in his department. Within 2?years, she had published a highly influential set of papers on metabolism in the Biochemical Journal, a field that some 70?years on has once again become a major focus as its role in cancer is dissected. From the outset, however, she had come under the spell of the legendary polymath Joseph Needham to whom she would dedicate the rest of her life in a partnership that would unveil the astounding history of Chinese science to the world.     

The Archaeology of Disease, 2nd and Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians:Health and Disease across a Hunter-Gatherer Continent

The Archaeology of Disease, 2nd. ed. Charlotte Roberts and Keith Manchester. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995 (cloth), x + 243 pp.
Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians: Health and Disease across a Hunter-Gatherer Continent. Stephen Webb. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995 (cloth), xii + 324 pp.     

Bibliometric analysis of Journal of Plant Ecology during 2017–2021

Issue Section: Editorial Journal of Plant Ecology (JPE) was founded in 2008. It is sponsored by the Botanical Society of China and the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and published by Oxford University Press, UK. JPE publishes diverse types of articles that fall into the broad scope of plant ecology, including plant ecophysiology, population ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, landscape ecology, conservation ecology, evolutionary ecology, theoretical ecology and global change ecology.     

Jewish in America or the Search for an Identity

How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in America. Karen Brodkin. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 243 pp.
Dispersing the Ghetto: The Relocation of Jewish Immigrants across America. Jack Glazier. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 245 pp.
Portrait of the American Jewish Community. Norman Linzer. David J. Schnall. and Jerome A. Chanes. eds. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. 220 pp.
From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia. Rakhmiel Peltz. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. 269 pp.     

Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty: Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity

Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty: Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity . Kathleen Pickering, Mark H. Harvey, Gene F. Summers, and David Mushinski. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 243 pp.     

Educational Opportunity in an Urban American High School: A Cultural Analysis.

Educational Opportunity in an Urban American High School:. Cultural Analysis. Patrick James McQuillan. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 243 pp.     

The Myth of Mondragón: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working-Class Life in a Basque Town

The Myth of Mondragón: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working-Class Life in. Basque Town. Sharryn Kasmir. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. 243 pp.     

One hundred and twenty-five years of the Annals of Botany. Part 1: the first 50 years (1887–1936)

Background The Annals of Botany is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing papers on a wide range of topics in plant biology. It first appeared in 1887, making it the oldest continuously published botanical title. The present article gives a historical account of events leading to the founding of the Journal and of its development over the first 50 years.Sources of Information Much of the content is drawn from the Journal’s own records and from extensive Minutes, financial accounts, personal letters and notes relating to the Annals of Botany that were repatriated from University College, University of London in 1999. Documents held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and at the Oxford University Press Museum were also consulted.Content Emphasis is placed on the individuals who instigated, edited and managed the Annals of Botany up to 1937, especially the nine founding members of the Journal and the background that brought them together and motivated them to start the Annals of Botany. A falling out between two of the founders in 1899 is highlighted since not only did this threaten the Journal’s future but also gives much insight into the personalities of those most closely involved in the Journal during its formative years. The article also examines the way the Journal was funded and how it dealt with its publisher (the University of Oxford’s Clarendon Press), turned itself into a registered company (the Annals of Botany Company) and coped with the travails of the First World War, currency inflation and the Great Depression. Plans to re-start the Journal as a New Series, beginning in 1937, are discussed in the context of the competition the Annals of Botany then faced from younger journals.     

Engaging with Dementia: Moral Experiments in Art and Friendship

The box-office as well as critical success of the 2014 major motion picture Still Alice, starring Julianne Moore in the title role and based on the bestselling novel of the same name by the Harvard-trained neuroscientist Lisa Genova (Still Alice. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2009), marked an important moment in public cultural representations of people with dementia. Still Alice tells the story of Alice Howland, an eminent scientist whose increasing memory lapses are eventually diagnosed as early-onset Alzheimer’s, and chronicles the transformations in her family relationships as her husband and three children respond to her decline in different ways. Alice’s husband, her son, and her older daughter all respond by turning toward science, while her younger daughter Lydia seeks to engage her mother as she is now, and turns toward art and relationships. Taking Still Alice and the figure of Lydia as an entry point, I discuss arts-focused efforts to improve the lives of people with dementia, and draw upon ongoing interview-based research on the topic of dementia and friendship, to offer an account of some of the ways that people I have spoken with are actively experimenting with art and with relationships in the face of dementia. I argue that these efforts can be understood as “moral experiements,” in the sense articulated by Cheryl Mattingly (Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2014). Although Lydia is a fictional character, her response to Alice’s dementia points toward the kinds of moral experimentation that are in fact possible, and quietly being practiced, by ordinary people every day.     

New short communications section: call for papers

Communications from the Mammal Society , which have been published twice yearly, in June (see pp. 209–244, this issue) and December, will cease from the end of this year. From January 1999, this Section of the Journal of Zoology will be allocated to Short Communications , and contributions will be welcomed on all taxa within the general field of zoological research, both invertebrate and vertebrate. Three copies of each paper, following the Instructions for Contributors printed at the back of the Journal of Zoology , should be sent directly to Dr M. L. Gorman, Editor of Short Communications, Journal of Zoology , Department of Zoology, Aberdeen University, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen AB24 2TZ, Scotland, U.K. Tel.: +44 (0)1224 272850; fax: +44 (0)1224 272396; e-mail: m.gorman@abdn.ac.uk .