Antedating of "Cytology"

[Fred Shapiro]

cytology (OED 1889)

1885 _Amer. Naturalist_ XIX. 425 (JSTOR)  The first number of a
comprehensive treatise on general cytology .... has just been published.

Fred Shapiro


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