Editing 1826 in science (section)

==Zoology==
* [[Karl Ernst von Baer]] discovers the mammalian [[ovum]].<ref>Reported as "Ovi Mammalium et Hominis genesi" to the [[Russian Academy of Sciences|Imperial Academy of Sciences]] in [[Saint Petersburg]] in 1827 (published at Leipzig).</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=Alexander|last=Petrunkevitch|title=Russia's Contribution to Science|journal=Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences|volume=23|year=1920|page=236}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allpersona.ru/people/72032.html|title=Биография Бэр Карл Максимович|work=AllPersona.Ru|accessdate=2011-05-18|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080319143038/http://www.allpersona.ru/people/72032.html|archivedate=2008-03-19}}</ref>
* The [[Austria]]n zoologist Johann Nepomuk Meyer first describes the [[Asiatic lion]] under the [[scientific name|name]] ''Felis leo persicus''.<ref>Meyer, J. N. (1826). ''Dissertatio inauguralis anatomico-medica de genere felium''. Doctoral thesis, University of Vienna.</ref>
* The [[Zoological Society of London]] is founded by Sir [[Thomas Stamford Raffles]].