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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: New-Brunswick has been visited by a frightful tornado. ...Charged with that mournful duty by their fellow citizens, the undersigned have made a survey of the devastation, and ascertained, as nearly as practicable, the amount of the positive and direct damage sustained.
Identifier(s): text:1486; APSimg6467; Goodman Number: 166; 973 C683 No. 181
Description: Requests pecuniary aid for the victims of this tornado which completely destroyed 130 homes and damaged numerous others. Signed in type by J. J. Janeway, G. S. Webb, F. Richmond, D. Fitz Randolph, and Miles C. Smith. The APS Archives also contain a report of this tornado made by J. J. Janeway, April 23, 1835.
Creator: Janeway, J. J. (Jacob Jones), 1774-1858
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Tornadoes; Fund raising
Date: 1835

Title: Kane's funeral march. Composed and respectfully inscribed to the memory of Elisha Kent Kane, M.D., U.S.N. by William H. Shuster
Identifier(s): text:327; APSimg6556; Goodman Number: 333; 973 C683 No. 522
Description: Compostion written in honor of this famed physician and Arctic explorer. Cover page includes illustrated profile of Kane.
Creator: Shuster, William H.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Musical notation; Funeral rites & ceremonies; Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857
Date: 1859

Title: Sir-- At a meeting of citizens called in this city, a few months since, to consider the practicability and expediency of establishing a National Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the undersigned were appointed a committee to mature a constitution, and to make report of the same, at a subsequent meeting. ...A meeting will be held on Monday evening, October 17th, at 7 o'clock in Clinton Hall, when a report of the proceedings of the committee will be presented...and a society organized. ...New-York, Oct. 14, 1836
Identifier(s): text:1758; APSimg6397; Goodman Number: 36; 973 C683 No. 698
Description: Typed invitation to meet and form an organization: the National Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Signed in type by William A. Duer, Gorham D. Abbot, Peter G. Stuyvesant, John Knox, Samuel Ward, Henry Cary, William Bard, John Proudfit, and John T. Gilchrist.
Creator: National Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Invitations; Organizations
Date: 1836

Title: The world at one view; on which is shewn the various empires, kingdoms, republics, states, principal islands, and colonies of Europe, Asia, North & South America, and Australasia; their extent, lat. & lon., number of inhabitants, chief cities & their populations...also all the principal elevations, rivers, railroads & canals, throughout the world. Compiled from the latest authorities
Identifier(s): text:1782; APSimg6742; Goodman Number: 352; 973 C683 No. 264
Description: Extra oversized table containing physical size, population, latitude, and longitude of countries, states, and cities of the world organized by continent. Also includes lists of rivers, islands, canals, railroads, and highest points of elevation across the globe; and a list or reigning sovereigns and world leaders. Illustrated with an image of the globe.
Creator: Worts, William
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Miscellaneous; Broadside Subdivision: ; Geography; Physical geographic features; Political geography
Date: 1833

Title: Proposals, by Edward Poole, for publishing, by subscription, a supplement to the "History of animated nature, by Oliver Goldsmith." Animals peculiar to North America, by John D. Godman, M.D.
Identifier(s): text:294; APSimg6544; Goodman Number: 223; 973 C683 No. 99
Description: Prospectus for an American supplement to Goldsmith's History of animated nature by John D. Godman, physician and naturalist whose American natural history (Philadelphia, 1826-28) is considered one of the first original American publications on mammals.
Creator: Godman, John D. (John Davidson), 1794-1830
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Animals; Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774; Zoology
Date: [1824]

Title: Proposals for publishing by subscription, dedicated, by permission, to the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company, Illustrations of Indian zoology, consisting of coloured plates of new or hitherto unfigured Indian animals, from the collection of Major-General [Thomas] Hardwicke...selected and arranged by John Edward Gray
Identifier(s): text:1784; APSimg6701; Goodman Number: 224; 973 C683 No. 387
Description: Prospectus for a two volume work (1830-34) from this prolific naturalist who between 1824 and 1863 published 497 papers on scientific subjects. In 1840 Gray succeeded J. G. Children as keeper of the zoological department of the British Museum, a post he kept until three months before his death.; Duplicate copy in John Edward Gray Papers (B G784).
Creator: Gray, John Edward (1800-1875)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Animals; Zoology
Date: ca. 1830

Title: Constitution of the West-Point Lyceum of Natural History
Identifier(s): text:103; APSimg6399; Goodman Number: 62; 973 C683 No. 735
Description: Constitution of a society comprised of members from the United States Military Academy who are concerned with the advancement of natural history, the West-Point Lyceum of Natural History.
Creator: West-Point Lyceum of Natural History
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Constitutions; Natural history; Organizations; Military academies
Date: [ca. 1825]

Title: Scientific lecture. Prof. Edgerton of Michigan has the pleasure of announcing to the citizens of _____ that he will lecture on _____ evening _____ upon the following subjects
Identifier(s): text:386; APSimg6535; Goodman Number: 145; 973 C683 No. 519
Description: Edgerton was an itinerant lecturer who, from the list of topics given in this broadside, spoke primarily of the relationship between geology and Christianity from a catastrophist's point of view. In addition Edgerton also lectured on the "phenomenon and the philosophy of storms."
Creator: Edgerton, Professor
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Public speaking; Geology; Christianity; Storms
Date: ca. 1840?

Title: El Crucero Iberia á los pueblos de todos países. La idea de los folk-loristas españoles que suscriben, al invitar á todos los folk-loristas del mundo á que promuevan en sus respectivos países una suscricion para construir el crucero Iberia
Identifier(s): text:369; APSimg6499; Goodman Number: 290; 973 C683 No. 421
Creator: Machado y Alvarez, Antonio, 1846-1893 Guichot y Sierra, Alejandro, 1859-1941 Sendras y Burin, Antonio; Machado y Alvarez, Antonio, 1846-1893 Guichot y Sierra, Alejandro, 1859-1941 Sendras y Burin, Antonio; Machado y Alvarez, Antonio, 1846-1893 Guichot y Sierra, Alejandro, 1859-1941 Sendras y Burin, Antonio
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Folklorists
Date: ca. 1885

Title: Tableau des principales expériences innovées et exécutées par M. Donato sur les spectateurs de ses séances
Identifier(s): text:357; APSimg6557; Goodman Number: 337; 973 C683 No. 597
Description: Profusely illustrated border of numerous subjects that Donato has placed in hypnotic states.; Small section torn from center of broadside, rendering a couple of words illegible.
Creator: Donato
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: "Pseudo Science"; Broadside Subdivision: ; Pseudo science; Hypnotism; Seances
Date: n.d.

Title: Skeleton of the mammoth is now to be seen at the museum, in a separate room. For admittance to which, 50 cents; to the museum, as usual, 25 cents
Identifier(s): text:365; APSimg6733; Goodman Number: 71; 973 C683 No. 583
Description: Apparently issued in conjunction with the opening of the "mammoth room" in Peale's Museum, December 24, 1801. Peale exhumed his fossilized specimen from marl pits in New York with financial aid (in the form of a no-interest loan) from the American Philosophical Society.
Creator: Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Natural history; Mammoths; Fossils; Paleontology
Date: ca. 1801

Title: North American and Carolina tree, shrub, and plant seed, imported and sold by Powell and Eddie, seedsmen, at the King's-Head, near Fetter-Lane, Holbourn, London
Identifier(s): text:249; APSimg6472; Goodman Number: 202; 973 C683 No. 236
Description: List of seeds available for purchase.
Creator: Powell and Eddie
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Seeds; Horticulture
Date: n.d.

Title: Miscellany. Meteorological observations for May, 1817. State of the thermometer at a tenement of Mr. James Reed, near the Brattle-House, Cambridge
Identifier(s): text:307; APSimg6738; Goodman Number: 173; 973 C683 No. 311
Description: Appears to be a reprint of an article from a newspaper.; Oversized.
Creator: Reed, James
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Temperature; Weather
Date: 1817

Title: H. Ewington's universal chronometer or perpetual almanac explained
Identifier(s): text:366; APSimg6504; Goodman Number: 300; 973 C683 No. 172
Description: Paper instrument composed of movable discs for determining the time of sunrise and sunset, length of day and night, and other periodic phenomena.
Creator: Ewington, Harry
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Clocks & watches; Almanacs; Meteorological instruments
Date: n.d.

Title: Antiquités mexicaines. Relation des trois expéditions ordonnées par le Roi d'Espagne en 1805, 1806, et 1807, pour la recherche des antiquités antérieures a la découverte du Mexique, notamment celles de Mitla et de Palenque
Identifier(s): text:370; APSimg6492; Goodman Number: 254; 973 C683 No. 271
Description: Prospectus for a work published in French in 1834. In addition to Barb_re, contributors to the work include: Charles Farcy, [David B.] Warden, and Alexander Lenoir.; See also Goodman #253 for Spanish-language version of this prospectus.
Creator: Baradère, H. (Henri)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities & archaeological sites; Expeditions & surveys
Date: ca. 1833

Title: Circular. It is proposed to commence a system of education, in Rutgers' College, consistent with the improvements of the age, in the all important art of instruction. By the system intended to be pursued, the arts and sciences will be taught practically as well as theoretically.... The arts will be taught by practice, under skilful [sic] professors, the sciences as follows
Identifier(s): text:1409; APSimg6421; Goodman Number: 83; 973 C683 No. 428
Description: In addition to listing the new program of science instruction at the college, the circular also requests donations of natural history specimens for the college museum and funds to purchase scientific apparatus.; A section is cut out and missing from the circular.
Creator: Rutgers College
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Universities & colleges; Teaching; Sciences
Date: n.d.

Title: Mixtions Wickersheimer pour la conservation des cadavres entiers ou divisés ainsi que des plantes
Identifier(s): text:343; APSimg6491; Goodman Number: 250; 973 C683 No. 447
Description: Discusses the creation and use of preserving fluids, for both plant and animal specimens, using the Wickersheimer method.
Creator: Talbot, Romain (b. 1827)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Conservation & restoration; Plants; Specimens
Date: [1880]

Title: Just published, in crown octavo, price four shillings in boards, (chiefly intended as the sequel to A father's instructions;) Moral and literary dissertations...
Identifier(s): text:152; APSimg6436; Goodman Number: 100; 973 C683 No. 676
Description: Among the subjects to be treated in the work is "On the alliance of natural history and philosophy with poetry." Also advertises Essays medical, and experimental, Essays philosophical, medical, and experimental, and Observations and experiments on the poison of lead by the same author.
Creator: Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Books; Moral & ethical aspects; Natural history
Date: 1784

Title: Monsieur. La proposition, que je prends la Liberté de vous faire, m'anime d'autant plus; qu'elle est intéressante pour un curieux, tel que je crois, que vous étes...Je prends la liberté de m'adresser à vous, Monsieur, pour m'informer, si vous ne seriez pas curieux de correspondre & de faire des echanges avec moi.... Je m`offre de vous envoyer une collection choisie de différentes curiosités naturelles de la Basse-Allemagne & d`autres paîs savoir
Identifier(s): text:1768; APSimg6488; Goodman Number: 246; 973 C683 No. 394
Description: Autograph signature of Baron de Hüpsch. Offers exchange of fossils, rocks, minerals, and ores, for quadrupeds, birds, fish, shells, insects, corals and marine plants, fossils and minerals. Several similar such letters from different dates are also in the American Philosophical Society collections.
Creator: Hüpsch-Lontzen, Johann Wilhelm Carl Adloph von Honvlez-Ardenn, freiherr von, 1726-1805
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Barter; Fossils; Specimens
Date: ca. 1789