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Title: Philadelphia, December 1857. Sir, I beg leave to transmit to you the copy of a resolution adopted by the American Association at its last meeting, and to invite your advice and guidance in the preparation of an appropriate report to that body. I have supposed that the several topics which such a report should embrace, may fitly arrange themselves under the following heads
Identifier(s): text:1769; APSimg6461; Goodman Number: 154; 973 C683 No. 630
Description: Autographed circular letter from J[ohn] K. Kane to Prof. J[ohn] F[ries] Frazer dated December 21, 1857. Lists six general topics which the committee on the coast survey of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is expected to investigate. Also gives a list of the twenty members appointed by the association to the committee: J[ohn] K. Kane, Joseph G. Totten, Benjamin Peirce, John Torrey, Joseph Henry, J. F. Frazer, Wm. Chauvenet, F. A. P. Barnard, John Le Conte, W. M. Gillespie, F. H. Smith, W. H. C. Bartlett, Walcott Gibbs, Stephen Alexander, Lewis R. Gibbes, Joseph Winbock, James Phillips, William Ferrel, Edward Hitchcock, and James D. Dana. Signed in type by Joseph Lovering, permanent secretary of the association.
Creator: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Organizations; Surveying
Date: 1857

Title: 1838. Observations made at London for 25 successive hours commencing at 6 a.m. of the 21st September, and ending 6 a.m. on the 22nd. London Clock Time. By Robert Carr Woods, Esq. Mem. Geog. Soc., Paris, Royal Acad. Sci. Lisbon, &c. &c.
Identifier(s): text:345; APSimg6541; Goodman Number: 178; 973 C683 No. 469
Description: Meteorological observations of London for a twenty-five hour period.
Creator: Woods, Robert Carr
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Weather; Clouds
Date: [1838]

Title: The substance of the two memoirs on the new characters to be used in chemistry, to elucidate the systematical synopsis arranged by W. Jackson
Identifier(s): text:360; APSimg6531; Goodman Number: 132; 973 C683 No. 356
Description: According to the text this work was extracted by Jackson from the "Register of the Royal Academy of Sciences" and published to accompany his synopsis (see Goodman #131). The two original memoirs by Adet and Hassenfratz were summarized and reviewed by Antoine Lavoisier, Claude-Louis Berthollet, and Antoine-François de Fourcroy in June 1787.
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: Tillkånna gifves att...Peter Jonas Bergius, dog i Stockholm. den 10 Julii 1790
Identifier(s): text:235; APSimg6474; Goodman Number: 205; 973 C683 No. 221
Description: Notification of death of famous Swedish physician and botanist. Includes list of the scientific societies of which Bergius was a member. Read at APS meeting January 24, 1791.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Bergius, Peter Jonas, 1730-1790; Announcements
Date: 1790

Title: May 10, 1848. Sir: The Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, at its meeting in Boston, on the 24th of September, 1847, resolved itself into the American Association for the Promotion of Science, elected its officers as such, and appointed the time and place of the first meeting...to be in the city of Philadelphia, on the third Wednesday (20th) of September, 1848, at 10 o'clock, a.m. [Page 2:] List of Officers.
Identifier(s): text:1321; APSimg6402; Goodman Number: 6; 973 C683 No. 211
Description: Signed in type by Samuel George Morton, chairman of the local committee, and Walter R. Johnson, secretary.; Morton and Johnson's reason for referring to their society as the American Association for the Promotion of Science is not entirely clear, for Goodman #3 clearly points out that the American Association of Geologists and Naturalists was resolved into the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the name which the organization has clearly taken by 1849 (see Goodman #4). One possible explanation for the discrepancy might be that both names were proposed at the September 1847 meeting and neither clearly adopted. Alternately, the organization might have been at first known by the name used by Morton above and later change to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (in which case Goodman #3 would postdate this document).
Creator: American Association for the Promotion of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Science; Invitations
Date: 1848

Title: [Fragment missing] and real estate. C. J. Wolbert & Co. invite attention to their sale which will take place on Thursday evening next[,] the 5th August, 1841
Identifier(s): text:130; APSimg6419; Goodman Number: 80; 973 C683 No. 187
Description: Advertisement for an auction. Item number seven to be auctioned is the Philadelphia Museum (see also Goodman #79).
Creator: Wolbert, C. J. & Company, Auctioneers
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Auctions; Peale’s Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1841

Title: Dr. Rees's New cyclopedia. Samuel F. Bradford is preparing to publish by subscription the New cyclopedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts and sciences, in twenty volumes quarto
Identifier(s): text:337; APSimg6734; Goodman Number: 102; 973 C683 No. 406
Description: Prospectus for an American edition of a new dictionary of arts and sciences based upon Chamber's Dictionary, also edited by Abraham Rees. Includes a lengthy list of contributors to the dictionary.; Oversized.
Creator: Rees, Abraham, 1743-1825
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Encyclopedias & dictionaries; Science
Date: n.d.

Title: The Bulletin of the scientific laboratories of Denison University. Vol. I.
Identifier(s): text:138; APSimg6433; Goodman Number: 96; 973 C683 No. 609
Description: Prospectus for a periodical issued under the editorship of Herrick. Originally enclosed in a letter form Herrick to J. P. Lesley, February 17, 1886.
Creator: Herrick, C. L. (Clarence Luther), 1858-1904
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Science; Periodicals
Date: ca. 1866

Title: Amusement here with science is combin'd, to please, improve, and cultivate the mind
Identifier(s): text:137; APSimg6412; Goodman Number: 63; 973 C683 No. 164
Description: This broadside, apparently made up of parts clipped from a larger item and pasted together, is possibly an advertisement for Peale's Museum. Ill.: wood engraving by Lansing of eagle holding shield and arrows.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Galleries & museums; Advertisements
Date: n.d.

Title: Circular. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dear Sir:-- At a late meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, Mass., the standing committee was directed, by a general vote of that body, to contract for the publication of the proceedings of the meeting. ...Cambridge, October 5, 1849
Identifier(s): text:1766; APSimg6401; Goodman Number: 4; 973 C683 No. 297
Description: Signed in type by Jeffries Wyman, Louis Agassiz, Benjamin Peirce, Charles H. Davis, Asa Gray, Henry D. Rogers, and E. N. Horsford, members of the committee requested to oversee publication of the proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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; Fund raising
Date: 1849

Title: Proposals for printing by subscription, on a fine paper, with a new and elegant American letter, cast by John Baine & Co. Travels through North and South-Carolina, Georgia, East and West-Florida.... By William Bartram, botanist, of Philadelphia, who was employed from 1773 to 1777, by the celebrated Doctor Fothergill, of London, to explore the extensive countries above-mentioned.
Identifier(s): text:1764; APSimg6507; Goodman Number: 316; 973 C683 No. 122
Description: Includes extract of Travels describing the Alachua Savannah in East Florida. See also Goodman #315.
Creator: Bartram, William, 1739-1823
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Bartram, William, 1739-1823; Natural history; Discovery & exploration; Indians of North America--Social life and customs.
Date: ca. 1790

Title: North east entrance in Kensington Road. Admit the bearer to the ceremony of laying the first stone of the Hall of Arts & Sciences, Kensington Gore
Identifier(s): text:315; APSimg6515; Goodman Number: 349; 973 C683 No. 677
Description: Ticket to admit the bearer to the ceremony of laying the first stone of the Hall of Arts & Sciences, Kensington Gore.
Creator: Kensington Gore Hall of Arts and Sciences
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Miscellaneous; Broadside Subdivision: ; Building dedications; Educational facilities
Date: 1867

Title: The analysis of a lecture upon the eidouranion; or astronomical lucernal, explaining the courses, distances, situations, magnitudes and motions of the heavenly bodies
Identifier(s): text:151; APSimg6439; Goodman Number: 110; 973 C683 No. 102
Description: Includes list of illustrations to be exhibited during the lecture. Manuscript note indicates that the broadside was presented to the American Philosophical Society by Thomas Stewardson, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, April 1897.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Public speaking; Stargazing
Date: n.d.

Title: Notice sur le Musée des antiques, dessiné et gravé par P. Bouillon, avec des notices explicatives par Mr. de St. Victor./ Prospectus of the Museum of antiquities, designed and engraved by Mr. Bouillon, with explanatory notes by Mr. de St. Victor
Identifier(s): text:308; APSimg6493; Goodman Number: 257; 973 C683 No. 508
Description: Back of one page contains note to [Thomas] Sully written by Lewis D. Belair, February 28, 1818. Note on document indicates that M. L. Binsse of New York was authorized to obtain subscribers to the work at Paris cost.; French and English in double columns.
Creator: Bouillon, Pierre, 1776-1831
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities; Galleries & museums
Date: ca. 1818

Title: General considerations showing the impolicy of the adoption by Congress of the recommendation of the secretary of the Navy to transfer the Coast and Geodetic Survey from the Treasury to the Navy Department
Identifier(s): text:312; APSimg6537; Goodman Number: 160; 973 C683 No. 76
Description: Broadside arguing against a proposed move of the Coast and Geodetic Survey from the Treasury to the Navy Department.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Surveying; Coastlines; Navies
Date: n.d.

Title: 18, Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park, London, N. W., Dec. 15th, 1889. Dear Sir, I am addressing this circular letter to a number of field botanists for the purpose of suggesting a line of research which can scarcely fail to prove of interest to some of them, while it would certainly prove of much help to me
Identifier(s): text:1786; APSimg6473; Goodman Number: 203; 973 C683 No. 312
Description: Requests cooperation from field botanists receiving letter to test his hypothesis that species originate from "sexual variation, such that while infertility continues unimpaired within the limits of the physiologically affected group, some degree of isolation supervenes between members of this group and the unaffected portion of the species." Signed in type by George J. Romanes.
Creator: Romanes, George John, 1848-1894
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Botany; Research
Date: 1889

Title: Publications of the Geological Survey of California. The publications of the Geological Survey of California issued up to this date, or nearly ready, are as follows...
Identifier(s): text:330; APSimg6490; Goodman Number: 248; 973 C683 No. 670
Description: Includes works on geology, paleontology, ornithology, mining, and mollusca. Signed in type by J. D. Whitney, state geologist.
Creator: Geological Survey of California
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Geology; Surveying
Date: 1868

Title: First Book of Zoology. By Edward S. Morse, Ph. D., Formerly Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology in Bowdoin College.
Identifier(s): text:352; APSimg6484; Goodman Number: 228; 973 C683 No. 497
Description: Advertises zoological textbook for school age children published in 1875. After studying conchology under Louis Agassiz at the Lawrence Scientific School, Morse went on to become an active zoologist, popular lecturer (see Goodman #228a), and beginning in 1880, director of the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts.; Includes four specimen illustrations.
Creator: Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Zoology; Animals
Date: [ca. 1875]

Title: Details of the rise and fall of the Mississippi River at Natchez landing, for more than twenty years, by a gentleman who arrived there in August of 1798, and has been since resident in its vicinity
Identifier(s): text:362; APSimg6540; Goodman Number: 174; 973 C683 No. 309
Description: Appears to have been separately printed from a newspaper article. Sergeant's observations of the Mississippi River for the years 1798-1818 were made while he was territorial governor of Mississippi (1798-1801) and then as plantation owner when his reappointment was denied by Jefferson.
Creator: Sergeant, Winthrop, 1753-1820
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Mississippi River - Description and travel
Date: ca. 1819

Title: Williamstown, Mass., April, __ 1867. Dear Sir: The Lyceum of Natural History of Williams College proposes to make a strictly scientific expedition to South America. The objects are: astronomical observations, original research into the physical geography of the Andes, and a large collection of the fauna and flora of that prolific region.
Identifier(s): text:1779; APSimg6512; Goodman Number: 326; 973 C683 No. 608
Description: Requests subscriptions for the amount of $1000 for which is promised in exchange a complete set of duplicate specimens collected. Subscriptions to be sent to Prof. Albert Hopkins. Signed in type by Wallace Freeman, Ja[me]s H. Canfield and J. Boyd Thacher, members of the financial committee. Page 3 includes recommendations by Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution (including a promise to loan scientific instruments from that institution) and C. H. Davis of the U. S. Naval Observatory.
Creator: Williams College. Lyceum of Natural History
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Natural history; Scientific expeditions; Specimens; Stargazing; Geography
Date: 1867