The year 1855 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
September –
Alfred Russel Wallace publishes "On the Law which has Regulated the Introduction of New Species", which he has written while working in
Sarawak on the island of
Borneo in February;[1] in December,
Edward Blyth brings it to the attention of
Charles Darwin.
^Thorez, Jacques; Dreesen, Roland; Streel, Maurice (2006).
"Frasnian". Geologica Belgica. 9: 27–45. Retrieved 2013-03-16.[permanent dead link]
^Seacole, Mary (1858). Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands. London: Blackwood.
^Silver, Christopher (2007). Renkioi: Brunel's Forgotten Crimean War Hospital. Sevenoaks: Valonia Press.
ISBN978-0-9557105-0-6.
^Cohn, Samuel Kline Jr. (2002). The black death transformed: disease and culture in early Renaissance Europe. London: Arnold.
ISBN978-0-340-70646-6.
OCLC50102269.
^van Dulken, Stephen (2001). Inventing the 19th Century: the great age of Victorian inventions. London:
British Library. pp. 30–1.
ISBN978-0-7123-0881-6.
The year 1855 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
September –
Alfred Russel Wallace publishes "On the Law which has Regulated the Introduction of New Species", which he has written while working in
Sarawak on the island of
Borneo in February;[1] in December,
Edward Blyth brings it to the attention of
Charles Darwin.
^Thorez, Jacques; Dreesen, Roland; Streel, Maurice (2006).
"Frasnian". Geologica Belgica. 9: 27–45. Retrieved 2013-03-16.[permanent dead link]
^Seacole, Mary (1858). Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands. London: Blackwood.
^Silver, Christopher (2007). Renkioi: Brunel's Forgotten Crimean War Hospital. Sevenoaks: Valonia Press.
ISBN978-0-9557105-0-6.
^Cohn, Samuel Kline Jr. (2002). The black death transformed: disease and culture in early Renaissance Europe. London: Arnold.
ISBN978-0-340-70646-6.
OCLC50102269.
^van Dulken, Stephen (2001). Inventing the 19th Century: the great age of Victorian inventions. London:
British Library. pp. 30–1.
ISBN978-0-7123-0881-6.