August Carl Eduard Baldamus invites 32 ornithologists to form an ornithological section of Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Artze. (Society of German Nature Researchers and Doctors). One result is the publication of the bird journal Rhea by Ludwig Thienemann
Florent Prévost with C. L. Lemaire publishes Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Europe
Nérée Boubée establishes "Maison Boubée" in Paris. It is a natural history dealership and publishing house.