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==Biology== * May 9 β [[Royal Agricultural Society of England]] established. * [[Protein]]s discovered by [[Gerardus Johannes Mulder]]<ref>{{cite journal|first=G. J.|last=Mulder|journal=Natuur- en Scheikundig Archief|volume=6|title=Over Proteine en hare Verbindingen en Ontledingsproducten|year=1838|pages=87β162}}</ref> and named by [[JΓΆns Jakob Berzelius]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Origin of the Word Protein|first=Hubert Bradford|last=Vickery|journal=Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine|pages=387β93|volume=22|year=1950|pmc=2598953|pmid=15413335|issue=5}}</ref> * [[Matthias Schleiden]] discovers that all living plant tissue is composed of cells. * [[Andrew Smith (zoologist)|Andrew Smith]] begins publication of ''Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa''.
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