Thank you to all those who responded so quickly to my request for
information on the origins of the Harvard Referencing System. As some of
those who responded expressed an interest in the results of my enquiries
I thought I would reply to the list.
It appears we can thank zoologist Edward Laurens Mark (1847-1946), a
Harvard University Prof, for starting the whole thing off in an article
he published in 1881, in which he made the first known use of the name
(date) style. Subsequently, in an 1896 article on bibliography, Prof
Charles Sedgwick Minot of the Harvard Medical School, credited Mark with
inventing the system. The rest, as they say, is history. So, the Harvard
is really the Mark system!
For further information see article by Chernin (1988) in the British
Medical Journal 297 (6655), pp. 1062-63.
I was also told of a book by Anthony Grafton (1997) The footnote: a
curious history. London: Faber. ISBN 0571176682 which sounds as though
it might well cover the topic.
David Fisher
LIS
Nottingham Trent University
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