Deaths
- February 1 – Edward Donovan (born 1768), Anglo-Irish naturalist.
- February 4 – John Latham (born 1740), English physician, naturalist and "grandfather of Australian ornithology".
- February 16 – Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (born 1776), German naturalist and advocate of transmutation.
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