 the year 1870 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. ==biology== * january 18 â gerhardt krefft first describes the queensland lungfish, in the sydney morning herald. * charles valentine riley confirms phylloxera as the cause of the great french wine blight. ==chemistry== * norman lockyer and edward frankland propose that the gas detected in solar observations should be called 'helium'.thomson, w. (1872) report of the british association for the advancement of science 99. ==ecology== * introduced rabbits reach the new south wales border in australia. ==mathematics== * felix klein constructs a model for hyperbolic geometry establishing its self-consistency and the logical independence of euclid's fifth postulate. (note: eugenio beltrami had previously given such a model in 1868.) * w. stanley jevons publishes the popular textbook elementary lessons on logic. ==medicine== * louis pasteur and robert koch establish the germ theory of disease. * henry maudsley publishes his lectures on body and mind: an inquiry into their connection and mutual influence. * frances morgan becomes the first british woman to receive a doctor of medicine degree from a european university, the university of zurich. ==meteorology== * november 1 â in the united states, the newly created weather bureau (later renamed the national weather service) makes its first official meteorological forecast: "high winds at chicago and milwaukee... and along the lakes". ==paleontology== * eustreptospondylus oxoniensis juvenile dinosaur fossil found in summertown, oxford. display in oxford university museum of natural history. ==physics== * rudolf clausius proves the scalar virial theorem. ==psychology== * ludimar hermann observes the hermann [[
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