title: Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
text: # Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
  
  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)
  