Biology
- September 25 - Sequoia National Park created in the United States.
- October 1 - Yosemite National Park created in the United States.
- Francis Galton announces a statistical demonstration of the uniqueness and classifiability of individual human fingerprints.
- Jacques Loeb publishes his first major work on tropism, Der Heliotropismus der Thiere und seine Uebereinstimmung mit dem Heliotropismus der Pflanzen.
- Henry Luke Bolley at the new North Dakota Agricultural College isolates the organism responsible for potato scab and develops an effective treatment.
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