[Ads-l] Antedating of "Palaeontology"

[Shapiro, Fred]

palaeontology (OED 1836)

1833 _Foreign Quarterly Review_ Oct. 517 (ProQuest)  Dr. Boué, the celebrated geologist, is about to publish a general Bibliography of the Sciences of Geology, Mineralogy, and Palaeontology, a work on which he has been employed for many years.

Fred Shapiro


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