Editing 1823 in science (section)

==Paleontology==
* January 23 – In a cave on the [[Gower Peninsula]] of [[Wales]], [[William Buckland]] inspects the "[[Red Lady of Paviland]]", the first identification of a prehistoric (male) human burial. The bones, discovered on December 21 last, are with those of the woolly [[mammoth]], proving that the two had coexisted, although Buckland dates th human remains as Roman.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Stephen|last=Aldhouse-Green|title=Great Sites: Paviland Cave|journal=British Archaeology|issue=61|url=http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba61/feat3.shtml|accessdate=2010-07-16|date=October 2001|archive-date=2006-02-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060228141222/http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba61/feat3.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* December 10 – On the [[Jurassic Coast]] of southern England, [[Mary Anning]] finds the first complete ''[[Plesiosaurus]]'' skeleton.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Torrens|first=Hugh|year=1995|title=Mary Anning (1799–1847) of Lyme; 'The Greatest Fossilist the World Ever Knew'|journal=The British Journal for the History of Science|volume=25|issue=3|pages=257–284|doi=10.1017/s0007087400033161|doi-access=free}}</ref>