Antedating of "Ethnology"

[Fred Shapiro]

ethnology (OED 1842)

1829 _Foreign Quarterly Review_ Apr. 16 (Periodicals Archive Online)
_Comparative Philology_, (termed _Linguistic_ by the Germans, and which
they apply to _Ethnology_.)

Fred Shapiro


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