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There's a lot on the history of peer review, refereeing and much more in this open-access volume on the history of publishing at the Royal Society: uclpress.co.uk/book/a-histo...

A History of Scientific JournalsModern scientific research has changed so much since Isaac Newton’s day: it is more professional, collaborative and international, with more complicated equipment and a more diverse community of resea...uclpress.co.uk

On that exact topic, there was a very interesting discussion on diversity in the field, provoked when Isis (one of the biggest history of science journals) planned to do a demographic survey of paper authors: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

So it's an important area where we need people from different fields talking to one another

But history of palaeo-sciences by people trained as historians of science is a lot more diverse, in terms of people, career stage, and what and where they write about. If anything, there's been an upsurge on the topic recently, so a lot of people working on it are early career

Here there's also a distinction between fields: it's definitely right that "history of palaeontology written by palaeontologists" is predominantly by late-career men It's a conventional thing in many sciences to start writing histories of your field when you get to a certain position or retire

Isn't that down to how institutions set pay for entry-level lecturing jobs? So a few have new lecturers start at grade 7 on the pay-scale, but most have them start somewhere on grade 6

Yuri is also credited in the acknowledgements for his many contributions to the research and writing process

Everything else in the "Intersections: Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene" series are similarly discounted, and there are some great books there: upittpress.org/series/inter... @upittpress.bsky.social

The book covers understandings of extinct and extant mammals across the world in the nineteenth century, and how that connected with colonialism, views of nature, and questions of who does scientific work It is also a fetching hardback, and compares favourably in size to a large domestic cat

Yep, the marriages among Victorian scientific families is another big thing!

J.R. Seeley was an important advocate for British imperialism, and H.G. Seeley had his own colonial connections (excavating fossils in South Africa) so will need to look into this more...

Yes, arguing against peer reviewers is fine. Also, if the reviewers are giving conflicting advice, ask the editor what you should do (sorting things like that out is part of their job!)

Another issue is that the grammar and wording is also pretty antiquated. So even if you do quote a large chunk and modernize the spelling, it's still going to be a bit tricky for a reader unfamiliar with 16C language to work out

Yeah - I'd personally go with directly quoting a few brief phrases like that in the original spelling, and paraphrasing or summarizing the rest, as it is good to build up a sense that this is from a distinct historical period

Ah, sounds intriguing! Possibly some kind of Entelodont? (they're quite popular to depict in the early- and mid-20th century)

I was indeed curious about that! Can't see the feet very well but I'm guessing it's supposed to be some kind of early Equid...?

I'm especially liking the polyhedral dice at the front

No worries! The project itself is going on for another two years, so there will be more stuff happening on these lines in due course

Other possible supervisors listed here: www.kingschostm.com/people We have people working on history of tech, disability history, history of collections, internationalism and science, early modern science, biosciences, and many other things!

Excellent owls! Many thanks