OT Antedating of "Social Scientist"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/15/2008 10:43 PM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 08:11:44PM -0400, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> >
> > social scientist (OED 1875)
> >
> > 1870 Hertford, Joseph. Personals, or, Perils of the period 243
> (Making of Modern Law)   Here resides a cause and effect for the
> social scientist.
> >
>
>We now have an 1865 example of this, from the _New York Social
>Science Review_.

I am shocked, shocked to find a journal called the _New York Social
Science Review_ using the term "social scientist"!  Round up the
usual suspects.  :-)

Joel

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