Editing 1876 in science (section)

==Biology==
* [[Robert Koch]] demonstrates that ''[[Bacillus anthracis]]'' is the source of [[anthrax]], the first [[bacterium]] conclusively shown to cause disease.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Koch|first=R.|year=1876|title=Die Ätiologie der Milzbrand-Krankheit, begründet auf die Entwicklungsgeschichte des Bacillus anthracis|journal=Cohns Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen|volume=2|issue=2|url=http://edoc.rki.de/documents/rk/508-5-26/PDF/5-26.pdf|pages=277–310|accessdate=2011-05-31}}</ref>
* [[Koller's sickle]] in [[Bird|avian]] [[gastrulation]] is first described by [[August Rauber]].
* [[Francis Galton]] invents the silent [[dog whistle]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Galton|first=Francis|year=1883|url=http://www.galton.org/books/human-faculty/index.html|title=Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development|pages=26–27}}</ref>
* [[Meiosis]] is discovered and described for the first time in sea urchin eggs by the German biologist [[Oscar Hertwig]].