This paper explores the editorial influence of Joseph Banks on the Philosophical Transactions—still, at the time of his accession to the Presidency of the Royal Society in 1778, the most prestigious scientific periodical published in English. In particular, it examines how Banks forged, and wielded, personal influence over what went into the Transactions. Nominally, at least, the periodical was under the collective control of the Society's council, with significant statutory safeguards in place to prevent editorship by a presidential clique. Yet this was exactly what Banks was able to speedily create and maintain. In this essay I explore how Banks accomplished this and the pressures it produced, addressing two key questions. First, I examine the social dimension of Banks's management of the Transactions (and what contemporaries thought of it), including particularly the questions of how and to whom access to the periodical was afforded or denied by Banks and his associates; and second, I consider how Banks and the Society dealt with the emerging competitive pressure of new commercial and learned society periodicals. I outline a sphere of scientific sociability partly created by informal processes of communicating, circulating, and evaluating papers developed by Banks and his close associates, and its significance for the Transactions in its engagements with other sites, genres, and conventions of scientific publication.

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“文学传教士”：约瑟夫·班克斯和《哲学交易》，1778–1820年

本文探讨了约瑟夫·班克斯在《哲学交易》中的编辑影响力。尽管如此，在约瑟夫·班克斯于1778年加入皇家学会轮值主席之时，这是最负盛名的英文科学期刊。特别是，它研究了银行如何伪造和运用个人影响交易的内容。至少名义上，该期刊受学会理事会的集体控制，并有重要的法定保障措施来防止总统集团的编辑。但这正是银行能够迅速创建和维护的。在本文中，我将探讨两个主要问题，银行如何做到这一点及其产生的压力。首先，我考察了银行对交易管理的社会层面（以及同时代人对此的看法），尤其包括银行及其同伙如何或向谁提供期刊的问题；其次，我考虑了银行和社会如何应对新的商业和学术社会期刊的新兴竞争压力。我概述了一个科学的社会领域，部分是由班克斯和他的紧密联系者开发的非正式交流，散布和评估论文的过程所创建的，以及它对于《交易》与其他网站，体裁和科学出版物的约定的意义。