ANTEDATING OF "ZERO POPULATION GROWTH"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Nov 19, 2007 11:23 AM, Word Crafter <wordcrafting at gmail.com> wrote:

> The following is from Google-Books. I've found that dating thre is not
> always reliable (for example, cites to journals appear to be dated by the
> date the journal originated, not the date of the specific isse), But this
> one looks good to me, subject of course to checking the originoal.

Just a quick tip: for misdated serials on Google Books, you can often
(though not always) find the correct volume/year information in the
metadata listed in the summary on the top left. So for the journal
below, you'll see that it's actually vol. 62 from 1977.

>    New Technical Books - Page
> 405<http://books.google.com/books?id=OyAbAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22zero+population+growth%22+date:1905-1920&num=100&as_brr=0>
>  by New York Public Library -
> Engineering<http://books.google.com/books?q=+subject:%22Engineering%22&num=100&as_brr=0>-
> 1916 Reproductive
> value, with applications to migration, contraception, and zero population
> growth. Understanding population characteristics.


--Ben Zimmer

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