Editing 1837 in science (section)

==Biology==
* January 10 – [[John Gould]] reports to the [[Zoological Society of London]] that [[Darwin's finches|bird specimens]] brought by [[Charles Darwin]] from the [[Galápagos Islands]] which Darwin had thought were blackbirds, "gross-bills" and [[finch]]es are in fact "a series of ground Finches which are so peculiar" as to form "an entirely new group, containing 12 species", an important step in the [[inception of Darwin's theory]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Sulloway, F. J. |year=1982 |title=The ''Beagle'' collections of Darwin's finches (''Geospizinae'') |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=49–94 |url=http://darwin-online.org.uk/pdf/1982_SullowayFinches_A86.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516072905/http://darwin-online.org.uk/pdf/1982_SullowayFinches_A86.pdf |archivedate=2012-05-16 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Sulloway, F. J.|year=1982|title=Darwin and his finches: the evolution of a legend|journal=Journal of the History of Biology|volume=15|pages=1–53|url=http://www.sulloway.org/Finches.pdf| doi=10.1007/BF00132004|citeseerx=10.1.1.458.3975}}</ref>
* March–July – [[Charles Darwin]] begins privately to develop his theory of [[transmutation of species]].
* November 6 – Establishment of the [[Public Garden (Boston)|Public Garden]] in [[Boston]] (Massachusetts), as a [[botanical garden]],<ref>{{cite web|first=William P.|last=Marchione|title=Horace Gray: Father of the Boston Public Garden|url=http://www.bahistory.org/HoraceGray.html|publisher=Brighton Allston Historical Society|date=1998–2001|accessdate=2013-11-13}}</ref> the first in the [[United States]] to be open to the general public.