Royal Society archive free for two months, 1665-date

[Sam Clements]

So, I was wrong.  A free database is NOT always a good thing.  :)

Sam Clements

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Shapiro" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: Royal Society archive free for two months, 1665-date


> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure their search engine works very well.  I did a search on
>> what should have been the entire database for "asteroid", and the
>> earliest returned citation was 1977 for the astronomical sense (1857 for
>> the starfish sense), but I was able to find (by browsing) an article
>> from 1807 with the word.
>
> When one searches the same material on JSTOR, one gets a first use of
> 1802.
>
> Fred
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fred R. Shapiro                             Editor
> Associate Librarian for Collections and     YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS
>   Access and Lecturer in Legal Research     Yale University Press,
> Yale Law School                             forthcoming
> e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu               http://quotationdictionary.com
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org