Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society

Discipline	Natural history
Language	English
Publication details
History	1886–present
Publisher	Bombay Natural History Society (India)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0006-6982
LCCN	48032581
OCLC no.	1536710
Links
Journal homepage

The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (also JBNHS) is a natural history journal published several times a year by the Bombay Natural History Society. First published in January 1886, and published with only a few interruptions since, the JBNHS is one of the best-known journals in the fields of natural history, conservation, and biodiversity research.

Major editors: 1886–1985

Format: decade. major editor(s). (For more details, see Pittie 2003.)

• 1886–1895: R. A. Sterndale, E. H. Aitken, & H. M. Phipson
• 1896–1905: H. M. Phipson & W. S. Millard
• 1906–1915: W. S. Millard, R. A. Spence & N. B. Kinnear
• 1916–1925: W. S. Millard, R. A. Spence, N. B. Kinnear, & S. H. Prater
• 1926–1935: R. A. Spence, S. H. Prater, P. M. D. Sanderson, & Sálim Ali.
• 1936–1945: M. J. Dickins, P. M. D. Sanderson, S. H. Prater, C. McCann, H. M. McGusty & J. F. Caius.
• 1946–1955: S. H. Prater, C. McCann, Sálim Ali, S. B. Setna, & H. Santapau.
• 1956–1965: Sálim Ali, H. Santapau, H. Abdulali, & Z. Futehally.
• 1966–1975: H. Santapau, D. E. Reuben, Z. Futehally, J. C. Daniel, & P. V. Bole.
• 1976–1985. J. C. Daniel, P. V. Bole & A. N. D. Nanavati.

Illustrations

• 
  The first illustration, vol. 1, no. 1, 1886, of the horns of the sheep, Ovis hodgsoni, O. vignei, and of an hybrid found in the Zanskar region of the upper Indus river valley, drawn by R. A. Sterndale
• 
  First partial colour illustration, vol. 1, no. 1, 1886, of the finless porpoise, subspecies Neomeris kurrachiensis
• 
  First photograph, vol. 3, no. 2, 1888, of a black rock scorpion (Buthus afer) displaying simultaneous twin parturition
• 
  First lithograph, vol. 3, no. 2, 1888, showing remains of a partially eaten tiger kill (nilgai)