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Title: Proposals, by Abraham Small, no. 165, Chestnut Street, 2nd door below Fifth Street, Philadelphia, for publishing by subscription, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge. New series--volume II
Identifier(s): text:1417; APSimg6424; Goodman Number: 89; 973 C683 No. 503
Description: On obverse, includes manuscript addition apparently indicating several of the subscribers: "David Hosack of New York, [Edm.-François] Jomard of Paris, the 'editor of the Am. journal of medical sciences,' Edward Everett of Boston, H. Niles of Baltimore, and [Severin] Lorich."; Broadside contains partial tear at top of page.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society
Date: 1823

Title: Annual Election of Officers and Councilors, 1896...[Obverse] Officers for 1896
Identifier(s): text:116; APSimg6404; Goodman Number: 20; 973 C683 No. 610
Description: Stated meetings of the officers and council [and]...society [as well as the]...stated business of the meeting. ...Officiating secretaries and curators. [Obverse side:] Officers for 1896. [and]...standing committees.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Organizations
Date: 1896

Title: Resolutions in reference to daylight saving adopted by the American Philosophical Society
Identifier(s): text:87; APSimg6393; Goodman Number: 21; 973 C683 No. 612
Description: Resolutions in reference to daylight saving adopted by the American Philosophical Society. Urges enactment of U. S. House Bill No. 2609 and Senate Bill No. 1854, both daylight savings bills.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Resolutions
Date: n.d.

Title: To the public. ...Conditions...upon which said annual [Magellanic] premiums will be awarded. ...Published by order of the society, at Philadelphia, the 19th day of November, 1786
Identifier(s): text:994; APSimg6748; Goodman Number: 10
Description: Signed in type by James Hutchinson, Robert Patterson, Samuel Magaw, and John Foulke, secretaries of the American Philosophical Society. Originally enclosed in letter from Samuel Vaughan to [Jean] Hermann, professor of medicine at the University of Strasbourg, March 20, 1788. The Magellanic premium was begun in 1786 with a 200-guinea donation from John Hyacinth Magellan, a Portuguese member of the Royal Society, and was awarded periodically to "the author of the best discovery, or most useful improvement relating to navigation, astronomy or natural philosophy, mere natural history only excepted."; Located in folder: 1788 March 20. Samuel Vaughan to Professor Hermann.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Awards; Astronomy; Navigation; Physics
Date: 1786

Title: Philosophical Hall, Philadelphia, (Circular.) Sir, the American Philosophical Society have always considered the antiquity, changes, and present state of their country as primary objects of their research; and with a view to facilitate such discoveries, a permanent committee has been established, among whose duties the following have been recommended as requiring particular attention.
Identifier(s): text:1341; APSimg6403; Goodman Number: 12; 973 C683 No. 106
Description: Gives the following as members of the committee: Thomas Jefferson, James Wilkinson, George Turner, Caspar Wistar, Adam Seybert, C[harles] W[illson] Peale, and Jon[athan] Williams. Circular letter signed by Jon[athan] Williams, chairman of the committee.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Committees; Natural history
Date: 1797 ?

Title: Philadelphia, November 1, 1776. Sir, Your company is requested at the Philosophical Society Hall, this evening at six o'clock, on business of importance
Identifier(s): text:592; APSimg6598; Goodman Number: 9
Description: Invitation to attend a meeting at Philosophical Society Hall.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society--Meetings; Organizations
Date: 1776

Title: The next stated meeting will be at 7 o'clock, on Friday evening. (Chair taken at 8 o'clock,) October 2, 1874
Identifier(s): text:74; APSimg6391; Goodman Number: 18; 973 C683 No. 628
Description: Meeting notification card. An album in the APS Archives contains 67 similarly sized and worded notification cards for meetings held between January 5, 1866 and January 7, 1870.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Invitations; Organizations
Date: 1874

Title: Premiums. The American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge, in order the more effectually to answer the ends of their institution, have agreed to appropriate, annually, a part of their funds to be disposed of in premiums to the authors of the best performances, inventions, or improvements, relative to certain specific subjects of useful knowledge. The following premiums, therefore, are now proposed by the society.
Identifier(s): text:1770; APSimg6516; Goodman Number: 11; 973 C683 No. 251
Description: Includes information on seven premiums offered by the society for the best entries in the following categories: system of liberal education, method for computing longitude by lunar observation, improvement of a ship's pump, improvement of stoves, method of preventing premature decay of peach trees, experimental treatise on vegetable dyes, and improvement of lamps. Also includes a notice of the conditions of the Magellanic premium. Note at base of this broadside requests printers of "newspapers and other periodical publications, in the United States and in Europe" to "republish the above information." Signed in type by W[illiam] Barton and John Bleakley, secretaries of the American Philosophical Society.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Awards; Education; Longitude; Inventions
Date: 1796

Title: Circular. At a meeting of the aid committee of the trustees of the fund for a fire-proof building for the American Philosophical Society, it was resolved...
Identifier(s): text:610; APSimg6599; Goodman Number: 17
Description: Subscription aimed at raising money for a larger, fire-proof building for the society. Committee included Franklin Peale, John C. Cresson, Robert Cornelius, Henry Winsor, Edward Hartshornes, and Thomas P. James.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Fund raising; Organizations' facilities
Date: ca. 1867

Title: 1858. [List of] stated meetings [and] ...stated business [for the year]. ...Officiating secretaries and curators
Identifier(s): text:842; APSimg6711; Goodman Number: 15
Description: Calendar of meetings for the American Philsophical Society for the year 1858.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Elisha Kent Kane Papers. Printed Material. (Mss.B.K132.p); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.K132.p-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society--Meetings; American Philosophical Society
Date: 1858

Title: Rooms of the Amer. Philosophical Soc.[,] Philadelphia, _____ 1863. To the secretary of the _____[.] Sir: You will please find at the rooms of the _____ a package of our publications
Identifier(s): text:76; APSimg6390; Goodman Number: 16; 973 C683 No. 496
Description: Blank form concerning the shipment of APS publications. Signed in type by J. Peter Lesley, librarian and junior secretary.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Forms (Documents); Organizations
Date: 1863

Title: Resolution to be considered at the meeting of the American Philosophical Society, to be held on the 3d of March, 1815
Identifier(s): text:703; APSimg6576; Goodman Number: 14
Description: Proposed resolution repealing the twelfth fundamental law of the society thereby reducing the number of classes under which it was organized from six to four, including: physical and mathematical class; class of useful arts and improvements; historical, statistical, and economical class; and philological and literary class.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B284d-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Organizational rules
Date: 1815

Title: The officers and counsellrs [sic] of the American Philosophical Society, hold a stated meeting at their hall tomorrow evening at __ o'clock
Identifier(s): text:700; APSimg6575; Goodman Number: 13
Description: Manuscript date of June 25, 1812. Manuscript addition instructs the recipient, B[enjamin] S. Barton, to "please bring the tribute to the memory of J[ohn] B[ayard] S[mith]."
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B284d-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; American Philosophical Society--Meetings
Date: 180_

Title: The American Philosophical Society...requests the honor of Mr. _____ company at the St. George Hotel on Monday, March 15 1880 at 5 p.m. at a dinner to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the society
Identifier(s): text:75; APSimg6392; Goodman Number: 19; 973 C683 No. 614
Description: Invitation to a dinner to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the American Philosophical Society. Signed in type by William A. Ingham, J. Sergeant Price and Henry Phillips, Jr.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Invitations; Organizations
Date: 1880

Title: Circular of the Joint Committee on Meteorology of the American Philosophical Society and Franklin Institute
Identifier(s): text:607; APSimg6609; Goodman Number: 168
Description: Requests receiver to transmit answers to questions regarding a storm which struck Philadelphia between March 16 and 19, 1838, to William Hamilton, actuary of the Franklin Institute. Signed in type by Robley Dunglison, chairman of the committee and Gouverneur Emerson, secretary. Manuscript note signed by J[ames] P. Espy and added to bottom of the circular requests reader to transmit the circular "to some persons in your district whom you think most likely to furnish the desired information."
Creator: American Philosophical Society and Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.). Joint Committee on Meteorology
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; American Philosophical Society; Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.); Meteorology; Storms
Date: March 20, 1838