Biology
- Pierre André Latreille begins publication of his Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des crustacés et insectes.
- George Montagu publishes his Ornithogical Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds.
- In the history of evolutionary thought
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck publishes Recherches sur l'Organisation des Corps Vivants, proposing that all life is organized in a vertical chain of progressive complexity.
- Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus begins publication of Biologie; oder die Philosophie der lebenden Natur, proposing a theory of the transmutation of species.
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