The editors are pleased to congratulate Henry-James Meiring, Institute for Advanced Studies of the Humanities, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, who is the winner of the Annals of Science Best Paper Prize 2019 for his paper titled ‘Thomas Robert Malthus, naturalist of the mind’ which appears in this issue.
As in previous years, submissions to the 2019 competition were of a high standard, and we’d like to thank the Editorial Board for thoroughly assessing each essay.