[f. Gr. τέλμα, τελματ- a bog + -OLOGY.] That department of physiography which deals with peat-bogs.
1903. Olsson-Seffer in Amer. Nat., XXXVII. 784. A name of a more international character, telmatology,… has been used by some authors (Klinge, J., for example, nearly twenty years ago), and seems acceptable.
