Antedating of "Paleontology"

[Fred Shapiro]

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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