Anthropology
Sporadic use of the term for some of the subject matter occurred subsequently, such as the use by Etienne Serres in 1838 to describe the natural history, or paleontology, of man, based on comparative anatomy, and the creation of a chair in anthropology and ethnography in 1850 at the National Museum of Natural History (France) by Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau. Various short-lived organizations of anthropologists had already been formed. The Societe Ethnologique de Paris, the first to use Ethnology, was formed in 1839. Its members were primarily anti-slavery activists. When slavery was abolished in France in 1848 the Societe was abandoned.
When was anthropology used as a term for comparative anatomy?
1838
Sporadic use of the term for some of the subject matter occurred subsequently, such as the use by Etienne Serres in 1838 to describe the natural history, or paleontology, of man, based on comparative anatomy, and the creation of a chair in anthropology and ethnography in 1850 at the National Museum of Natural History (France) by Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau.
Anthropology