In 1855 the German architect Gottfried Semper, at the request of Cole, produced a design for the museum, but it was rejected by the Board of Trade as too expensive.

The zoological museum was built in 1855, and the library building in 1867.

The museum features a funeral practices exhibit, a military history room, an art gallery, a Civil War Display with an 1855 slave collar and a Civil War era regimental flag, a school room, and an archives room for genealogists as well as a gift shop.

* 1823 – 1855 in the House of Oterdahl, today a museum of medical history.

In 1855 he was appointed professor of the science of antiquity, and director of the academic art museum at Bonn, and in 1865 he was called to succeed Eduard Gerhard at Berlin.

In 1855 he was appointed director of the royal collections of antiquities and the museum of plaster casts at Dresden, to which posts were subsequently added that of director of the historical museum and a professorship at the Royal Saxon Polytechnic.

In 1855 he was elected Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences, but at that time it provided no advantage in terms of material well-being, and he didn't even have an assistant at the museum.

After succeeding to the estate in 1855 Eyton built a large natural history museum at Eyton Hall.

Regius Professor of Medicine, Sir Henry Acland, initiated the construction of the museum between 1855 and 1860, to bring together all the aspects of science around a central display area.

Among his more important works may be named Women Gleaning, and The Day after St Sebastian's Day ( 1855 ), which gained him a third-class medal ; Blessing the Fields ( 1857 ), a second-class medal ; Erecting a Calvary ( 1859 ), now in the Lille gallery ; The Return of the Gleaners ( 1859 ), now in the Luxembourg ; Evening and Women Weeding ( 1861 ), a first-class medal ; Grandfather's Birthday ( 1862 ); The Close of Day ( 1865 ); Harvest ( 1867 ); Potato Gatherers ( 1868 ); A Pardon, Brittany ( 1869 ); The Fountain ( 1872 ), medal of honour ; The Bonfires of St John ( 1875 ); Women mending Nets ( 1876 ), in the Douai museum ; A Gleaner ( 1877 ), Luxembourg ; Evening, Finistère ( 1881 ); The Song of the Lark ( 1884 ); The Last Sunbeam ( 1885 ); The Shepherd's Star ( 1888 ); The Call Home ( 1889 ); The Last Gleanings ( 1895 ); Gathering Poppies ( 1897 ); The Alarm Cry ( 1899 ); Twilight Glory ( 1900 ).

* William Evans Hoyle ( 1855 – 1927 ), cephalopod monographer and museum director

In 1855 Franks was responsible for acquiring for the museum the finest items from the collection of Ralph Bernal, the Liberal politician and collector, including the outstanding Lothair Crystal .< ref >" Franks, Augustus Wollaston.

The museum grounds also housed the first zoo of Madras in 1855, which was also established by Balfour.

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

Hastings was incorporated as a village in 1855, with a population of around 300, and on March 11, 1871, officially become a city.

Pleasant Grove was officially incorporated as a town January 18, 1855, by which time the settlement had grown to 623 people.

Until after 1855, Stephens could not be properly called a Democrat, and even then, he never officially declared it.

In 1855 the island was officially designated as part of New South Wales by the Constitution Act.

The Maria Theresa thaler was officially adopted as the standard coin in 1855, although the Indian rupee and the Mexican dollar were also used in foreign trade.

The town of Arroyo was officially founded on December 25, 1855.

On his return from Europe in 1855 he was given an annual pension, and was officially under ward of Sir John Spencer Logan and Lady Logan, who leased Castle Menzies in Perthshire, Scotland for him.

It was accompanied by severe illness and she died on 31 March 1855, officially from tuberculosis.

In the 1840s, some farmers from Caqueza, a town on the eastern folds of Bogotá started the modest settlement of Gramalote, which officially became the parish of Villavicencio in 1855.

In 1855, the settlement became an incorporated village, and was officially renamed " Freguesia de Santo Antonio de Paquequer "; however, the local inhabitants had already become accustomed to calling their home " Therezopolis " ( named for the Empress Teresa Cristina ).

In 1855 the town's name officially became Palisades.

When a post office was established 1855, the community officially became known as Lisbon.

While the church and civil government were already established in Batan Island mid 1783, its was only in 1855 that civil authority was officially established and the mission canonically founded in Itbayat.

In 1855, the settlement was officially designated by the Spanish colonial authorities as a " pueblo " or town.

On March 18, 1855, a fully laden passenger train drove across the upper deck at, and officially opened the completed bridge.

On February 4, 1855, Shelbyville was designated the county seat.

In October 1873, he moved a small group of his people from the Bitterroot Valley, which was designated a “ conditional reservation ” in the 1855 Hellgate Treaty, to the Jocko Agency ( later Flathead Indian Agency ) located a few miles north of the current town of Arlee.

He also wrote a somewhat fantastic Idylle vom Bodensee, oder Fischer Martin und die Glockendiebe ( 1846 ; 2nd ed., 1856 ), the caprice Das Stuttgarter Hutzelmännlein ( 1855 ), and published a collection of hymns, odes, elegies and idylls of the Greeks and Romans, entitled Klassische Blumenlese ( 1840 ).

Now managed by Dublin City Council, it contains a statue of Oscar Wilde, who resided in No. 1, Merrion Square from 1855 to 1876, many other sculptures and a collection of old Dublin lamp standards.

In 1855 Dr Marcel Jérôme Rigollot of Amiens strongly advocated the authenticity of the flint implements ; but it was not until 1858 that Hugh Falconer saw the collection at Abbeville and induced Sir Joseph Prestwich in the following year to visit the locality.

A few interesting works remain as the outcome of this first journey A Peasant seeking Shelter from Bad Weather ( 1855 ), The Goatherd ( 1860, in the Schack Gallery, Munich ) and The Arch of Titus ( in the Palfy collection, Budapest ).

* Profile Likenesses of the Executive and Legislature of Georgia ( Silhouette Book ), by William H. Brown, 1855 from the collection of the Georgia Archives.

A version appears in George Petrie's 1855 collection of ballads ; other variants appear in a number of broadside ballads from the nineteenth century.

The essay played an instrumental role in the 1855 appearance of the first edition of Walt Whitman's collection of poems, Leaves of Grass.

The Patrologia Latina is an enormous collection of the writings of the Church Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers published by Jacques-Paul Migne between 1844 and 1855, with indices published between 1862 and 1865.

:: Note: Photographs from the Library of Congress's Brady-Handy collection are collectively dated 1855 – 1865.

" It was found in a tomb near Medinet Habu, across the Nile river from Luxor, Egypt, and purchased by collector Anthony Charles Harris ( 1790 – 1869 ) in 1855 ; it entered the collection of the British Museum in 1872.

Also in 1855 he published a collection of Chopin's unpublished manuscripts, under the opus numbers 66-73.

The Carmina Gadelica is a collection of prayers, hymns, charms, incantations, blessings, runes, and other literary-folkloric poems and songs collected and translated by amateur folklorist Alexander Carmichael ( 1832 – 1912 ) in the Gaelic-speaking regions of Scotland between 1855 and 1910.

" Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came " is a poem by English author Robert Browning, written in 1855 and first published that same year in the collection entitled Men and Women.

Men and Women is a collection of fifty-one poems in two volumes by Robert Browning, first published in 1855.

They are those of :- Jules Dumont d ' Urville with René-Primevère Lesson ( the largest including material from the Falkland Islands, the coast of Chile and Peru, the southern and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea ); Justin Goudot who had explored South America from 1822 ( and continued to until 1842 ); a Louis Pilate who was based in Georgia and Louisiana U. S. A. but lived for five years in Mérida, Yucatán ; Auguste Sallé, a young collector later to become a Paris insect dealer with South American connections ; Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d ' Orbigny who between 1826 and 1823 had travelled, on a mission for the Paris Museum, in to Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia and Peru returning France with an enormous collection of more than 10, 000 natural history specimens ; Peter Claussen ( c. 1804 – 1855 ) a Danish naturalist who collected in Brazil, a M. Giesebrecht, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ( Diptera from Egypt ) and three members of a Belgian Commission for the exploration of tropical countries, August Giesebreght ( 1810 – 1893 ), Nicholas Funk ( 1817 – 1896 ) and Jean Jules Linden ( 1817 – 1898 ).