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Title: History of the Grinnell Exploring Expedition to the Arctic Ocean, in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853-4-5. Dr. E. K. Kane, U.S.N., commanding. By William Godfrey, one of the survivors of the expedition.
Identifier(s): text:347; APSimg6508; Goodman Number: 319; 973 C683 No. 94
Description: Prospectus from Godfrey, an ordinary seaman attached to the second Grinnell expedition, who claims in this broadside: "I saved Dr. Kane's life in the Arctic Ocean, and he denounces me in his book as a deserter."
Creator: Godfrey, Wm. C. (William C.)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Discovery & exploration; Grinnell Expedition; Arctic regions
Date: ca. 1857

Title: Lecture on the mound builders[.] No subject more fascinating than the study of the lost race of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. ...Lecture fully illustrated by the stereopticon, charts, and actual specimens
Identifier(s): text:318; APSimg6547; Goodman Number: 261; 973 C683 No. 526
Description: Broadside advertising a lecture on the mounds and archaeological remains left by Native Americans who once inhabited the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys.
Creator: MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson), 1848-1939
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Archaeology; Indians of North America; Mounds (Burials); Public speaking
Date: [1886]

Title: Department of War, May 15, 1826. To -----[,] Sir: It is the intention of the government to collect and preserve such information as may be obtained concerning the Indian languages.... You will report to the Department, at as early a period as you can, the information required.
Identifier(s): text:1771; APSimg6496; Goodman Number: 281; 973 C683 No. 112
Description: Letter enclosed originally with the three following documents: 1) "uniform comparative vocabulary"; 2) "verbal forms and sentences" for translation; and 3) "an attempt," by Albert Gallatin, "to arrange the Indian tribes of the United States east of the Stony Mountains, according to languages and dialects" (for Gallatin's chart, see Goodman #275). Signed in type by James Barbour.
Creator: United States. War Dept.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Indians of North America--Language; Linguistics
Date: 1826

Title: On Friday the 21st of January, 1825, this splendid establishment was opened to the subscribers and their friends. Upwards of three hundred ladies and gentlemen were present.... Inaugural lecture. Bath: Printed by Richard Cruttwell, St. James's-Street
Identifier(s): text:1354; APSimg6405; Goodman Number: 23; 973 C683 No. 424
Description: The inaugural lecturer, Sir George Gibbes, M.D., indicates that the "institution is intended to include the whole range of literary and philosophical inquiry" and details numerous areas worthy of scientific investigation. From the Bath Chronicle, January 27, 1825.
Creator: Bath Literary Institution
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Public speaking; Science
Date: 1825

Title: Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques, tant des espèces qu'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus
Identifier(s): text:338; APSimg6482; Goodman Number: 221; 973 C683 No. 86
Description: Prospectus for work begun by Jean-Baptiste de Férussac and completed by his son, André-Etienne, and G.-P. Deshayes. The last fascicle of the work was not published until 1851.
Creator: Férussac, André-Etienne-Just-Pascal-Joseph-François d'Audebard, baron de, 1786-1836
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Marine biology; Aquatic animals
Date: [ca. 1819]

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: Proposals for publishing by subscription, a new and elegant Universal atlas, to contain distinct maps of all the principal kingdoms and states in the known world, and separate maps of each of the United States
Identifier(s): text:355; APSimg6561; Goodman Number: 351; 973 C683 No. 254
Description: Tanner, a cartographer and statistical geographer, is best remembered for his New American atlas (1818-23), a work extensively researched from primary documents contained in the United States government offices and drawn to uniform scale.
Creator: Tanner, Henry Schenck, 1786-1858
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Miscellaneous; Broadside Subdivision: ; Maps; Atlases
Date: 1833

Title: The late Robert Were Fox, F.R.S. (Reprinted from the "West Briton" of July 26th, 1877.)
Identifier(s): text:236; APSimg6469; Goodman Number: 181; 973 C683 No. 552
Description: Obituary for Fox who performed numerous experiments in physics and geology, especially relating to the electric currents and changes in temperature of the earth's crust.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Fox, Robert Were, 1789-1877; Geology; Physics
Date: 1877

Title: (From the [Philadelphia] Inquirer.) Letter from Dr. Hare. In reply to an inquiry respecting the influence of electricity in table turning. Philadelphia, July 27, 1853
Identifier(s): text:255; APSimg6452; Goodman Number: 139; 973 C683 No. 347
Description: In this broadside the chemist Hare renders the opinion that "it is utterly impossible for six or eight, or any number of persons, seated around a table, to produce an electrical current." Upon his retirement as professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1847, Hare devoted a good deal of time to the investigatin of spiritualism, and much to the chagrin of the Philadelphia scientific establishment published Experimental investigation of the spirit manifestations, demonstrating the existence of spirts and their communication with mortals (1855).
Creator: Hare, Robert, 1781-1858
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Electricity; Electricity; Spiritualism
Date: 1853

Title: A synopsis of the chemical characters adapted to the new nomenclature by Messrs. Hassenfratz and Adet, systematically arranged by W. Jackson, practical chemist
Identifier(s): text:310; APSimg6530; Goodman Number: 131; 973 C683 No. 353
Description: Antoine Lavoisier's anti-phlogiston theory required a new chemical nomenclature to facilitate its dissemination and further development. He therefore collaborated with several French chemists to produce Méthode de nomenclature chimique (1787), a work which had appended to it two papers by Jean-Henri Hassenfratz and Pierre-Auguste Adet giving symbols for the new chemistry. William Jackson assembled the charts of symbols from the English translation of Méthode by John St. John and published the above broadside, dedicated to John C. Lettsom, a London physician. Lettsom gave this copy to the American Philosophical Society in 1800. Ill.: table of chemical characters.; For the explanation which accompanied this broadside, see Goodman #132.
Creator: Jackson, William
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Symbols
Date: 1799

Title: Circular. At the last meeting of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, it was resolved...that the scope of the society should be extended, so as to embrace, henceforth...the advancement of all the departments of positive knowledge.... Objects and rules of the association...called the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Identifier(s): text:1752; APSimg6400; Goodman Number: 3; 973 C683 No. 681
Description: Signed in type by Henry D. Rogers, Benjamin Peirce, and Louis Agassiz, members of a committee appointed to alter the constitution and rules of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists.; See also Goodman #6.
Creator: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Science; Organizational rules
Date: ca. 1847?

Title: Thermometrical table, on the scales of Fahrenheit, Centigrade and Reaumur comprising the most remarkable phenomena chemical and physiological connected with temperature, by Alfred S. Taylor, lecturer on chemistry in Guy's Hospital
Identifier(s): text:332; APSimg6542; Goodman Number: 184; 973 C683 No. 529
Description: Elaborate table arranged around the image of a thermometer, noting the temperatures at which various elements and substances boil, melt, solidify, freeze, etc. Also contains mean temperatures of numerous places across the globe.; In addition to his posts as lecturer of chemistry and medical jurisprudence at Guy's Hospital, Taylor was also involved in the early investigation into the chemical processes of photography.
Creator: Taylor, Alfred Swaine, 1806-1880
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Chemistry; Meteorology; Temperature
Date: 1845

Title: Scientia in bello pax. The United States Military Philosophical Society instituted for the purpose of improving and disseminating military science...have elected _____ a member thereof
Identifier(s): text:302; APSimg6739; Goodman Number: 60; 973 C683 No. 369
Description: Membership certificate filled in for John Vaughan. Illustrated broadside, including numerous symbols of military science and warfare. The United States Military Philosophical Society held its last recorded meeting November 1, 1813. For more information on the Society, see also Sidney Forman, "The United States Military Philosophical Society, 1802-1813." William and Mary Quarterly. 3rd ser., vol. 2, no. 3 (July 1945): 273-285.; Extra oversized.
Creator: United States Military Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Military organizations; Military art & science; Vaughan, John, 1755-1841
Date: ca. 1803-1810

Title: The formation and progress of settlements, and wars with the Indians [etc.]
Identifier(s): text:368; APSimg6510; Goodman Number: 324; 973 C683 No. 431
Description: A series of inquiries to be made by travelers. Includes questions on Indians, militia, slaves, sects, charitable institutions, colleges and academies, public works, principal manufacturers, agriculture, relief for the poor, administration of justice, and prevailing diseases.; Handwritten on the first page: "Enquiries to be made by Travel[ers]. Statistical Re"
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Travel; Sociology
Date: n.d.

Title: Natural History Society. Founded May 6, 1869. [List of] officers,...executive committee, [and]...members [for 1890]
Identifier(s): text:340; APSimg6517; Goodman Number: 37; 973 C683 No. 258
Description: Reproduced in the 1955 Christmas greeting card of Anna Allen and Albert Hazen Wright. Facsimile. Includes and illustration of an animal border surrounding the list of officers.
Creator: Natural History Society of Cornell
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Natural history; Organizations
Date: 1890

Title: Tables of natural sines and natural tangents, for the use of field parties of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, 1875.
Identifier(s): text:238; APSimg6464; Goodman Number: 161; 973 C683 No. 669
Description: Tables of natural sines and natural tangents, for the use of field parties of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, 1875. [Page 4:] Table of natural tangents for each 30'', from 0o to 10o, prepared...by Otis H. Kendall, instructor in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania.
Creator: Kendall, Otis H.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Mathematics; Surveying
Date: [1875]

Title: Lecture[.] Perley Ainsworth, artist, will deliver a lecture at _____ on _____ ev'g, _____ 185_[.] He will illustrate his subjects with many beautiful experiments, explaining the laws of chemical affinity, combustion, galvanism, electricity, gas making and ballooning!
Identifier(s): text:1470; APSimg6445; Goodman Number: 124; 973 C683 No. 710
Description: Ainsworth was one of many itinerant popular lecturers who traveled across the United States in the nineteenth century. He was at one time associated with a Professor Hindman under whom he may have learned his trade (see Goodman #130).
Creator: Ainsworth, Perley
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Public speaking
Date: [185_]

Title: Boston, November 1, 1838. In consequence of communications between members of the American Philosophical Society, in Philadelphia, and gentlemen in Boston, a meeting was held in the latter place, of gentlemen belonging to Boston, Salem, and the University at Cambridge...to form an institution to be called the American Institution for the Cultivation of Science, having for its object the advancement of physical science and literature
Identifier(s): text:1765; APSimg6389; Goodman Number: 8; 973 C683 No. 192
Description: Resolution concerning formation of the American Institution for the Cultivation of Science. Lists the following members of the committee of correspondence: John C. Warren, Judge [Joseph] Story, John Pickering, F. C. Gray, Daniel Treadwell, and Dr. [Enoch] Hale. Signed in type by John C. Warren, chairman of the committee.
Creator: American Institution for the Cultivation of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Resolutions
Date: 1838

Title: Dem Rector und Lehrer-Collegium des Gymnasiums zu Görlitz
Identifier(s): text:384; APSimg6518; Goodman Number: 39; 973 C683 No. 472
Description: Reproduces address delivered in honor of the three-hundreth anniversary of the gymnasium which indicates that the school has had a science-based curriculum since its inception during the Renaissance.; Oversized.
Creator: Oberlausitzische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Education; Schools; Science; Anniversaries
Date: 1865

Title: The subscriber has taken a laboratory, in which he proposes to perform analyses of the various ores, as those of iron, lead, copper, silver, gold, &c.; of the earths, as those of lime, clay, sand, &c.; and likewise the products of art. Instruction in the methods of analysis will also be communicated
Identifier(s): text:1781; APSimg6448; Goodman Number: 127; 973 C683 No. 184
Description: In addition to the instruction in chemistry Booth offered in another broadside (See Goodman #126, or 973 C683 no. 183), in this document, issued only one week later, he also advertises the ability to perform chemical analysis of ores, earths, and "the products of art." The following are listed as references: A. D. Bache, W. H. Keating, and Henry Troth.
Creator: Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Minerals; Dirt
Date: 1836