 In 1923, Hogben was a founder of the Society for Experimental Biology and its organ the "British Journal of Experimental Biology" (renamed "Journal of Experimental Biology" in 1930), along with Julian Huxley and geneticist Francis Albert Eley Crew (1886–1973).According to Gary Werskey, Hogben was the only one of the founders not holding any eugenic ideas.Inspired by the example of "The Outline of History" by H. G. Wells, Hogben began to work on books designed to popularize mathematics and science for the general public.