Chronology of Independent Journals from the Early Period

Chronological List of Early Independent Journals

This area is concerned with "independent journals" - that is, with journals that were not published by scholarly societies. In point of fact, in the early years of their existence, the independent journals served primarily as a vehicle for reviewing works of original reseach that were located in monographs or in the journals published by scholarly societies.

The bulk of the abbreviations of these independent journals were located through perusal of the first few hundred pages of Band 1 of Pogg..

Last Updated: 2024, September 20

1818 * American journal of science :

Journal Run

Journal History

Journal Abbreviations

1.1818 - 49.1845; 50.1847; 2.Ser. 1.1846 - 39.1865; 40=90.1865 - 50=100.1870; 3.Ser. 1=101.1871 - 50=150.1895; 4.Ser. 1=151.1896 - 50=200.1920; 5.Ser. 1=201.1921 - 36=236.1938; 237.1939 - 322.2022

American journal of science : an international earth science journal / Kline Geology Laboratory, Yale University. Establ. by Benjamin Silliman in 1818

Main title for 1.1818: The American journal of science, more especially of mineralogy, geology, and the other branches of natural history, ...

Main title for 1820 - 1879: American journal of science and arts

Sub-title at times: Silliman's journal

Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)

N. Sill. Journ.
[Pogg., v.1, col.84 cites 1852. XIV.]

Sill. Journ.
[Pogg., v.1, col.84 cites 1831. XX; 1835. XXVII; 1835. XXVIII; 1836. XXIX; 1836. XXX; 1839. XXXV.]

Sill. N.
[Pogg., v.1, col.126; the N. probably refers to the new series beginning 1846.]

Sillim. Journ.
[Pogg., v.1, col.429 cites N. Ser. T. XXI.]

Silliman's Journ.
[Pogg., v.1, col.253; gives no further details.]

Sillm.
[Pogg., v.1, col.121 cites XXVIII. 1835.]

Sillm. Journ.
[Pogg., v.1, col.103 cites Vol. V, & XIII.]