Congratulations to the writers of the following articles, which were most often downloaded by JLS readers across the last calendar year:

1. Gregory Lynall, ‘Scriblerian Projections of Longitude: Arbuthnot, Swift, and the Agency of Satire in a Culture of Invention’ (Vol.7, No.2)

2. Bernard Lightman, ‘Contextualising Conan Doyle’s Ideal Reasoner: The Case of the Reluctant Scientific Naturalist’ (Vol.7, No.2)

3. Emilie Taylor-Brown, ‘(Re)constructing the Knights of Science: Parasitologists and their Literary Imaginations’ (Vol.7, No.2)

1. Minna Vuohelainen, ‘“Cribb’d, Cabined and Confined”: Fear, Claustrophobia and Modernity in Richard Marsh’s Urban Gothic Fiction’ (Vol.3, No.1)

2. Emilie Taylor-Brown, ‘(Re)constructing the Knights of Science: Parasitologists and their Literary Imaginations’ (Vol.7, No.2)

3. Alison E. Martin, ‘Performing Scientific Knowledge Transfer: Anne Plumptre and the Translation of Martin Heinrich Lichtenstein’s Reisen im südlichen Afrika (1811)’ (Vol.8, No.1)

1. Angela Byrne, ‘“My Little Readers”: Catharine Parr Traill’s Natural Histories for Children’ (Vol.8, No.1)

2. Bernard Lightman, ‘Contextualising Conan Doyle’s Ideal Reasoner: The Case of the Reluctant Scientific Naturalist’ (Vol.7, No.2)

3. Mary Orr, ‘The Stuff of Translation and Independent Female Scientific Authorship: the Case of Taxidermy…, anon. (1820)’ (Vol.8, No.1)

1. Gregory Lynall, ‘Scriblerian Projections of Longitude: Arbuthnot, Swift, and the Agency of Satire in a Culture of Invention’ (Vol.7, No.2)

2. Bernard Lightman, ‘Contextualising Conan Doyle’s Ideal Reasoner: The Case of the Reluctant Scientific Naturalist’ (Vol.7, No.2)

3. Shelley Trower, ‘Primitive Rocks: Humphry Davy, Mining, and the Sublime Landscapes of Cornwall’ (Vol.7, No.1)

1. Bernard Lightman, ‘Contextualising Conan Doyle’s Ideal Reasoner: The Case of the Reluctant Scientific Naturalist’ (Vol.7, No.2)

2. Gregory Lynall, ‘Scriblerian Projections of Longitude: Arbuthnot, Swift, and the Agency of Satire in a Culture of Invention’ (Vol.7, No.2)

3. Erika Behrisch Elce, ‘”One Remarkable Evening”: Redemptive Science in Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science’ (Vol.7, No.1)

1. Steven McLean, ‘Revolution as an Angel from the Sky: George Griffith’s Aeronautical Speculation’ (Vol.7, No.2)

2. Emilie Taylor-Brown, ‘(Re)constructing the Knights of Science: Parasitologists and their Literary Imaginations’ (Vol.7, No.2)

3. Gregory Lynall, ‘Scriblerian Projections of Longitude: Arbuthnot, Swift, and the Agency of Satire in a Culture of Invention’ (Vol.7, No.2)

Across 2015 the news posts announcing the Most Downloaded articles had dropped from view due to a technical problem. A recent reset requires them to be uploaded again. You will now see a number of periods clustered together in recent posts. Apologies to those of you interested in this data who have been unable to see it for a period of time.