[Ads-l] Antedating of "Biologist"

[Shapiro, Fred]

biologist (OED, 2., 1829)

1817 The First Annual Oration Delivered to the London Medical Institution 37 (Google Books)

The analysis of animal substances is pursued with such zeal by all Europe, that it is impossible to say what nation has contributed most, on this score, to physiology.  To this must biologists still adhere.

Fred Shapiro

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