Biology and Medicine
- August 1 - Swiss National Park (Parc Naziunal Svizzer) established in the Engadin region of Switzerland.
- September 1 - Martha, the last known Passenger Pigeon, dies, in the Cincinnati Zoo.
- November 6 - Jacques Loeb publishes a paper on artificial parthenogenesis in sea urchins.
- November 26 - Karl von Frisch publishes his first significant paper on honey bee behavior, "Der Farbensinn und Formensinn der Biene".
- Julian Huxley publishes The Courtship Habits of the Great Crested Grebe, a key text in ethology.
- John Joly develops a method of extracting radium and applying it in radiotherapy.
- Edward Calvin Kendall isolates thyroxine.
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