Charles Darwin, with his network of 2000 correspondents, was as happy writing within, and gleaning information from, the pages of the Gardeners' Chronicle as any more self-consciously professional scientific journals.9 Indeed, ‘his’ correspondents were just as likely to see him as ‘their’ correspondent in their own submissions to the Chronicle and a host of titles like it that provided broad authorial access, such as Science Gossip, The Intellectual Observer or Knowledge
Charles Darwin (Q1035)