The year 1855 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
September – Alfred Russel Wallace publishes "On the Law which has Regulated the Introduction of New Species", which he has written while working in Sarawak on the island of Borneo in February;[1] in December, Edward Blyth brings it to the attention of Charles Darwin.
^Thorez, Jacques; Dreesen, Roland; Streel, Maurice (2006). "Frasnian". Geologica Belgica. 9: 27–45. Retrieved 2013-03-16.[permanent dead link]
^Seacole, Mary (1858). Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands. London: Blackwood.
^Silver, Christopher (2007). Renkioi: Brunel's Forgotten Crimean War Hospital. Sevenoaks: Valonia Press. ISBN978-0-9557105-0-6.
^Cohn, Samuel Kline Jr. (2002). The black death transformed: disease and culture in early Renaissance Europe. London: Arnold. ISBN978-0-340-70646-6. OCLC50102269.
^van Dulken, Stephen (2001). Inventing the 19th Century: the great age of Victorian inventions. London: British Library. pp. 30–1. ISBN978-0-7123-0881-6.