Royal Society archive free for two months, 1665-date

[Joel S. Berson]

To restate the obvious, don't take a negative result as proof, it may
be (a) false (negative).  To my displeasure, with Early American Newspapers.

Joel

At 9/22/2006 04:40 PM, you wrote:
>Oh, free databases are always good. Ones with good search facilities are
>even better.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: American Dialect Society
> > [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sam Clements
> > Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 3:34 PM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Re: Royal Society archive free for two months, 1665-date
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> > Poster:       Sam Clements <SClements at NEO.RR.COM>
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> > 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
> > >
> > >
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