This essay examines the interplay between the meetings and publications of learned scientific societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when journals were an established but not yet dominant form of scholarly communication. The ‘making public’ of research at meetings, long before actual ‘publication’ in society periodicals, enabled a complex of more or less formal sites of communication and discussion ahead of print. Using two case studies from the Royal Society of London—Jan Ingen-Housz in 1782 and John Tyndall in 1857 to 1858—we reveal how different individuals navigated and exploited the power structures, social activities and seasonal rhythms of learned societies, all necessary precursors to gaining admission to the editorial processes of society journals, and trace the shifting significance of meetings in the increasingly competitive and diverse realm of Victorian scientific publishing. We conclude by reflecting on the implications of these historical perspectives for current discussions of the ‘ends’ of the scientific journal.

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提前公开印刷：1752-1892年在皇家学会的会议和出版物。

本文探讨了在18世纪和19世纪学术会议的会议和出版物之间的相互作用，当时期刊是学术交流的既定形式，但尚未占主导地位。会议上的研究“公开”早于社会期刊中实际的“公开”，使人们可以在印刷之前或多或少地建立正式的交流和讨论场所。使用来自伦敦皇家学会的两个案例研究-1782年的简·英根·豪斯（Jan Ingen-Housz）和1857年至1858年的约翰·廷德尔（John Tyndall），我们揭示了不同的个人如何驾驭和利用博学型社会的权力结构，社会活动和季节性节奏，这些都是所有必要的先兆。获得社会期刊的编辑程序的认可，并追溯了会议在维多利亚州科学出版业日益竞争和多样化的领域中变化的重要性。最后，我们通过反思这些历史观点对科学期刊“目的”的当前讨论的意义进行总结。