TITLE: History of name "Fundamental Theorem on Symmetric Polynomials"
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: Do you know the history (esp. first use) of the name "Fundamental Theorem on Symmetric Polynomials" (or "FT of SP", or "FT on S Functions", etc.) for the statement that any polynomial (resp. rational function) symmetric in n variables is uniquely expressible as a polynomial (resp. rational function) in the elementary symmetric polynomials in those variables?
I got a comment from a reviewer (for an article about this theorem) asking for a reference for the name. Every 20th century source I consulted (back to van der Waerden) just presents the theorem with this name. The 18th and 19th century sources I've looked at (Waring, Galois, Gauss) do not give a name (nor do they uniformly articulate it as a theorem; Gauss does; Waring kind of does). I assume the theorem was christened with the name sometime between 1850 and 1950. Do you know where, when and by whom?

REPLY [5 votes]: A good source is Muir's "The Theory of Determinants in the Historical Order of Development". The whole book has been digitized and put in the public domain (available through University of Michigan Historical Math Collection).