See also: 1876 in science, other events of 1877, 1878 in science and the list of years in science.
Medicine Patrick Manson studies animal carriers of infectious diseases Awards Copley Medal: James Dwight Dana Wollaston Medal: Robert Mallet Births Deaths September 17 - William Fox Talbot, mathematician, physicist and chemist (* 1800) September 23 - Urbain Le Verrier, astronomer (* 1811)
