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Fiske (1894)

John Fiske, Edward Livingston Youmans (New York, 1894).

• Biography of Youmans.
• Science popularizer who took a major shine to Herbert Spencer.
• p. 104: Became impressed by Spencer's trending toward a general theory of evolution in 1858, before Darwin had published.
• p. 107: Offered to help Spencer any way he could to realize his "Syntheic Philosophy" concept.
• p. 290: Youmans wrote "...the publication of his little book [The Study of Sociology], which I bullied him to write..." (emphasis added)
• p. 301-302: Decided he had to found his own monthly magazine to (1) allow Spencer's works to be pubished legitimately instead of pirated, and (2) to have a place for his own voice.
  • He got the magazine spun up in just 3 weeks! It was Popular Science Monthly.
• Popular Science Monthly was a success! Within a year, circulation of 11,000 (p. 302, 313, 314)
• It was also quit controversial. Clergy and many households refused to read it because of the preponderance of evolutionary [Godless?] thought in it. (p. 313)

Carniero (1974)

Carneiro, Robert L. “Herbert Spencer’s ‘The Study of Sociology’ and the Rise of Social Science in America.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 118, no. 6 (1974): 540–54. http://www.jstor.org/stable/986404.

• Carniero was curator of the American Museum of Natural History at the time
• Mostly about Spencer, but brings up Youmans a lot.
• Youmans was the reason Spencer's ideas were introduced to an American audience.
• Friend with Spencer for over 25 years, until Youmans' death in 1887.
• Youmans advised Appleton publisher about science works worthy of publication. Appleton published einent science works in the 19th century, but went bankrupt in 1900.