Biology
- Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley demonstrates that Phytophthora infestans (potato blight) is a fungal infection.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, first open to the public and William Hooker appointed director.
- John Gould begins publication of A Monograph of the Macropodidae, or Family of Kangaroos.
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