Editing 1855 in science (section)

==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;<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.wku.edu/%7Esmithch/wallace/S020.htm|title=On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species|first=Alfred Russel|last=Wallace|journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History |series=Second Series|volume=16}}</ref> in December, [[Edward Blyth]] brings it to the attention of [[Charles Darwin]].
* [[Robert Remak]] publishes ''Untersuchungen über die Entwickelung der Wirbelthiere'' in [[Berlin]], providing evidence for [[cell division]], which is supported (but not acknowledged) by [[Rudolf Virchow]].<ref>Virchow, R. ''Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin'' '''8''' (1855).</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=David|last=Lagunoff|title=A Polish, Jewish Scientist in 19th-Century Prussia|journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]]|volume=298|page=2331|year=2002|doi=10.1126/science.1080726|issue=5602|pmid=12493897}}</ref>