Editing 1835 in science (section)

==Astronomy==
* August 5 – First sighting of the return of [[Comet Halley]] by Father [[Dominique Dumouchel]], director of the [[Collegio Romano]] at the [[Vatican City|Vatican]]. It is next seen on August 21 by [[Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve]] at the [[Dorpat Observatory]]. [[John Herschel]] had been expected to find the comet first, as he was at the time in [[South Africa]] with his 20&nbsp;ft focal length reflector – at this time the world's largest telescope. He finally observes it in October and watches until it reaches [[perihelion]] November 16. It reappears in January 1836, and Herschel will be the last person to observe it in May.
* August 25 – The first of six articles on discoveries of living creatures on the Moon supposedly made by Herschel and a fictitious companion named Dr. Andrew Grant is published in the ''[[New York Sun (historical)|New York Sun]]''. This incident is now known as the [[Great Moon Hoax]].
* [[Berlin Observatory]] opened.
* [[Caroline Herschel]] and [[Mary Somerville]] become the first women members of the [[Royal Astronomical Society]].