1776, George Edwards, Esq., Elements of Fossilogy, Or, An Arrangement of Fossils Into Classes, Orders, Genera, and Specimens with Their Characters.
1799, William Marshall, Minutes, Experiments, Observations, and General Remarks, on Agriculture, in the Southern Counties, volume 2, page 51
He ought to be master of fossilogy, so far as it relates to soils ; and of chemistry, as it pertains to manures.
1845, Solomon Wilkinson Theakston, Theakston's guide to Scarborough, page 115
Many capsules and seeds, hitherto perfectly new in fossilogy, occur, both in the upper and and lower sand-stones
1856, Robert J. Rankin, "American School of Mines", in Mining Magazine, page 246
In its appropriate place we should find the Fossilogy of our State (and in turn of our country) the best defined of any geological system thus far known.
From that hour the acquisitions I had made in natural history and ' fossilogy ', as we then termed the magnificent branch of study now known as paleontology .
