Biology
- June 30 - The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom opens its laboratory on Plymouth Hoe.
- Seventeen biologists found the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA, which will become a major center of applied research.
- Peter Hermann Stillmark describes the isolation of ricin, thus founding the field of lectinology.
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