Editing 1884 in science (section)

==Other events==
* September 24 – [[Smeaton's Tower]] opened to the public on [[Plymouth Hoe]] as a monument to the history of civil engineering.<ref>{{cite web|website=The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History|publisher=Plymouth Data|last=Moseley|first=Brian|title=Smeaton's Tower|date=August 2007|url=http://www.plymouthdata.info/Memorial-Smeaton%27s%20Tower.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316120322/http://www.plymouthdata.info/Memorial-Smeaton%27s%20Tower.htm|archivedate=2011-03-16|accessdate=2015-02-13}}</ref>
* October 22 – [[International Meridian Conference]] in Washington, D.C. fixes the [[Greenwich meridian]] as the world's prime meridian.
* [[Sophie Bryant]] becomes the first woman in England to be awarded the degree of [[Doctor of Science]], by the [[University of London]]. Also in this year, she is the first woman to publish a paper with the [[London Mathematical Society]].
* [[Sofia Kovalevskaya]] is appointed "Professor Extraordinarius" in mathematics at [[Stockholm University]] and becomes the editor of ''[[Acta Mathematica]]''.<ref>{{cite book|first=Roger|last=Cooke|title=The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya|url=https://archive.org/details/mathematicsofson0000cook|url-access=registration|location=New York|publisher=Springer-Verlag|year=1984|isbn=978-0-387-96030-2}}</ref>