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1751 A.D.

 

1772- the earliest valid work to use the name "Crustacea" was Morten Thrane Brunnich's Zoologiae Fundamenta

 

1795- in the scientific literature, gastropods were described under the vernacular (French) name "gasteropodes" by Georges Cuvier

 

1800 the term "biology" is first used

 

 

1811 William Harvey was the first to divide algae into four divisions based on their pigmentation

 

1836 Miles Joseph Berkeley first used the word "mycology" to mean study of fungi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1850

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