The American Naturalist is the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Society of Naturalists , whose purpose is "to advance and to diffuse knowledge of organic evolution and other broad biological principles so as to enhance the conceptual unification of the biological sciences." It was established in 1867 and is published by the University of Chicago Press . The journal covers research in ecology , evolutionary biology , population, and integrative biology . As of 2018, the editor-in-chief is Daniel I. Bolnick . According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal had a 2020 impact factor of 3.926.
7-632: The journal was founded by Alpheus Hyatt , Edward S. Morse , Alpheus S. Packard Jr. , and Frederick W. Putnam at the Essex Institute in Salem, Massachusetts . The first issue appeared in print dated March 1867. In 1885 the four men founded the American Naturalist Society, where in 1887 the journal was designated an official organ of the society for publication. In 1878 the journal was for sale and Edward Cope bought half
14-710: A laboratory at the Norwood-Hyatt House in 1879 for the study of Marine Biology in Annisquam , Massachusetts. The River Road building gave him access to the Annisquam River, a salt water estuary. This enterprise was moved to Woods Hole and became the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in 1888. Hyatt studied under Louis Agassiz and was a proponent of Neo-Lamarckism with Edward Drinker Cope . In 1869,
21-463: A professor of paleontology and zoology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1870, where he taught for eighteen years, and was professor of biology and zoology at Boston University from 1877 until his death in 1902. He also served as curator of the Boston Society of Natural History , where his longtime assistant was his former student Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon , and he established
28-814: The Maryland Military Academy and Yale University , and after graduating from Harvard University in 1862, he enlisted as a private in the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry for the Civil War, emerging with the rank of captain. After the war he worked for a time at the Essex Institute (now the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts . He and a colleague founded American Naturalist and Hyatt served as editor from 1867 to 1870. He became
35-722: The ASN became increasingly involved in editing The American Naturalist through changes in 1941 and 1951, the journal remained with the Cattell family until 1968, when the University of Chicago Press took it over after Jacques Cattell 's death. Alpheus Hyatt Alpheus Hyatt (April 5, 1838 – January 15, 1902) was an American zoologist and palaeontologist . Alpheus Hyatt II was born in Washington, D.C. to Alpheus Hyatt and Harriet Randolph (King) Hyatt. He briefly attended
42-652: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected him a fellow and in 1875, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1895. In 1898, he received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Brown University . He and his wife, Audella Beebe, were the parents of famed sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington ; their other children were Harriet Randolph Hyatt Mayor , who
49-685: The rights. He moved the journal to Philadelphia and arranged to edit it jointly with Professor Alpheus S. Packard Jr. Cope became editor-in-chief in 1887 and continued in that capacity until his death in 1897. In 1897, a group of professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Harvard University , and Tufts University bought the rights from the Cope estate and kept the journal in publication until 1907 when J. McKeen Cattell acquired control. Cattell's son Jacques became co-editor and publisher with his father in 1939. Although
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