ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author looks at an example of a mainstream nineteenth-century scientist who devoted much of his life to owning and editing several journals, while at the same time pursuing an active research and writing career. In particular, the author appreciates that how an able research scientist fell into editing and how he learned to edit and manage a journal. Even a man of such phenomenal energy as Crookes found it impossible to combine dazzling experimental investigations of the radiometer and cathode rays with the editing of three journals and his extensive sanitary and electrical business interests. To the consternation of certain members of the scientific community, such as William Benjamin Carpenter, John Tyndall, and Thomas Henry Huxley, but supported by Alfred Russel Wallace, Crookes was persuaded that the mediumship of some practitioners was perfectly genuine.
