[Ads-l] Antedating of "Vertebrate"

[Shapiro, Fred]

vertebrate (OED 1824)

1820 _Monthly Review, or, Literary Journal_ Dec. 476 (ProQuest)  _Comparative Anatomy_. -- Under this head, several pages are allotted to the consideration of the memoirs of the Chevalier _Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire_ on certain analogies, real or supposed, between particular portions of the skeleton in the different classes of vertebrate animals.

Fred Shapiro

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