Antedating of "Paleontology"

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sun Jun 12 01:33:20 UTC 2005


palaeontology (OED3 1836)

1835 _Amer. Jrnl. Science & Arts_ 3 Jan. 283 ff. (American Periodical
Series)  There appeared in 1833, six numbers instead of four, of the
Annals of Mineralogy, Geology and Palaeontology, by MM. LEONHARD and
BRONN.

Fred Shapiro


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