Antedating of "Bacteriologist"

[Fred Shapiro]

bacteriologist (OED 1891)

1884 _Science_ Mar. 362 (JSTOR)  Dr. Sternberg is at the head of the
American school of working bacteriologists.

Fred Shapiro


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