The full archive back to 1878 up to issues published 12 months from the current date is freely available online.

In 1893–1894 Foster's colleague John Newport Langley took over as editor.

Langley remained the proprietor and editor until his death in 1925, when The Physiological Society bought the journal from his widow.

Charles Scott Sherrington was appointed the first chairman of the editorial board in 1926.

In 2003 The Physiological Society moved publishing to Blackwell, now Wiley-Blackwell.