Science Gossip was a monthly popular-science magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

, published from 1865 to 1893 by Robert Hardwicke.

The idea underlying Science Gossip was to provide for scientific studies what Notes and Queries

Notes and Queries

Notes and Queries is a long-running quarterly scholarly journal that publishes short articles related to "English language and literature, lexicography, history, and scholarly antiquarianism". Its emphasis is on "the factual rather than the speculative"...

provides for literary studies. Science Gossip is cited over 100 times in Alfred Cotgreave's 1900 contents-subject index. Editors included the botanist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

Mordecai Cubitt Cooke was an English botanist and mycologist.Cooke came from a mercantile family in Horning, Norfolk, and worked as an apprentice to a fabric merchant before becoming a clerk in a law firm, but his chief interest was in botany. He founded the Society of Amateur Botanists in 1862...

 and John Eller Taylor.