Bio Lessons

1850 A.D.

1855- Charles Kingsley coins the term Pteridomania for fern craze in early Victorian era

 

 

1865- Austrian Monk Gregor Mendel demonstrates principles of heredity using pea plants

 

!866 - Ernst Haeckel coined the term ecology 

 

 

1872- Yellowstone National Park is created in the U.S. for the preservation of a national enviroment 

 

 

1881- Charles Darwin's book The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms presented the first scientific analysis of earthworms' contribution to soil fertility