Antedating of "Ecology"

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
wrote:

> ecology (OED 1876)
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> 1875 _Academy_ 18 Sept. 309 (ProQuest)  Seeing that the scope of Botany
> dif=
> fers from that of Zoology only in the fact that the one deals with
> plants, the other with animals, we might expect that physiology,
> morphology, oecology, and taxonomy in each would have assumed about the
> same relative importance to one another.
>

books.google.com/books?id=5EFPAAAAIAAJ
State horticultural society of Missouri - ‎Snippet view
Annual report - 1859 - Page 144
years past anatomy has had precedence over physiology and Oecology.


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-Wilson
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