Orr's Circle of the Sciences

[5] In children's literature, it published Christoph von Schmid's Basket of Flowers in an English translation of 1848, in partnership with J.

[6] Orr himself was a publishers' agent from the 1830s, and was a close associate of Robert and William Chambers.

[9] By 1845 the circulation was declining from its peak, and Orr wrote to Chambers explaining that the market was changing.

[11] Punch magazine, set up in 1841, brought in Orr to help with distribution to booksellers and news agents.

[14] The series editor was John Stevenson Bushnan, who also wrote the introductory section of the first volume.

Circle of the Sciences , illustration from the introductory section of the work
Engraving of Georges Cuvier , Richard Owen , Lorenz Oken . Originally at p. 161 of the first volume (1854) of Orr's Circle of the Sciences , it was reproduced as on this plate in Owen's The Principal Forms of the Skeleton and the Teeth (1856), which was the standalone publication of two of Owen's articles.