ABSTRACT
The period around 1900 was a time of change in the world of science. The firm’s files were still bespangled with the names of the great British physicists of the nineteenth century, led by Lord Kelvin and Lord Rayleigh. But the dominance of classical physics was fading, even as its main protagonists aged. Besides work for learned societies, Taylor & Francis did much educational printing; this included circulars and prize lists for University College, London and University College School, but, above all, printing for examinations. Examination papers were printed for a number of bodies at home and abroad, but the largest customer was the Conjoint Examination Board of the Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Surgeons. The mainstay of Taylor & Francis’s income continued to be their journals, and, more especially, the Philosophical Magazine. In the latter part of the 1920s, however, this also entered on a difficult phase of its career.
