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Title: Missourium theristrocaulodon, or Leviathan missouriensis open for exhibition, in the saloon at the rere of Tommey's Hotel, entrance in Great Britain-Street, (opposite the Lying-in-Hospital.) Particular description and explanations given every day at 3o'c
Identifier(s): text:1763; APSimg6475; Goodman Number: 208; 973 C683 No. 484
Description: Advertises one of several sets of skeletal remains of large, New World creatures exhumed by this German-born scientist- showman, who made a living exhibiting his finds for a fee and selling them to museums after their immediate popular appeal had diminished. This particular skeleton, which Richard Owen argued was a species of Mastodon when Koch brought it to London for exhibit, was sold to the British Museum in 1844.; Includes illustration of a man standing beneath a fossil skeleton, with another man riding an elephant next to it.
Creator: Koch, Albert C.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Fossils; Skeletons; Mammoths; Mastodons; Paleontology
Date: [1843]

Title: 13 Exchange Street, Boston, April 4, 1874. The accompanying article, "In the laboratory with Agassiz," appears in Every Saturday of April 4, 1874, and by the kind permission of the author and publisher is placed at the disposal of the Agassiz Memorial Committee.
Identifier(s): text:1776; APSimg6486; Goodman Number: 236; 973 C683 No. 644
Description: The introduction is signed in type by Ja[me]s M. Barnard, treasurer of the fund. Samuel H. Scudder's anecdotal account of his first contact with Agassiz.
Creator: Agassiz Memorial Committtee
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873; Natural history; Zoology; Fish
Date: 1874

Title: Philadelphia Meeting, 1884. Sir:-- I have the honor to inform you that at a recent meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia, you were elected a member of the local committee for the reception of the British and American Associations for the Advancement of Science, who will meet in this city in September, 1884
Identifier(s): text:1761; APSimg 6388; Goodman Number: 5; 973 C683 No. 643
Description: Form letter signed in type by Joseph Leidy, chairman of the local committee and H. Carvill Lewis, secretary.
Creator: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Membership campaigns; Organizations
Date: 1884

Title: [Phrenological chart fragment]
Identifier(s): text:329; APSimg6551; Goodman Number: 282; 973 C683 No. 257
Description: Fragment of a phrenological chart, containing manuscript notes on the reverse, as well as the inscription: "Mr. Fowler's decision on my phrenological traits in 1836. H. R. S."; The chart is torn along the righthand side, rendering some words illegible.
Creator: Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Phrenology; Phrenology; Pseudo science
Date: [ca. 1835-1836]

Title: Liste des membres qui composent la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice. 1er[.] septembre 1836
Identifier(s): text:136; APSimg6410; Goodman Number: 58; 973 C683 No. 377
Description: Last page of document lists rules and gives a short history of the society.
Creator: Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Natural history
Date: 1836

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: ABCDE...
Identifier(s): text:309; APSimg6494; Goodman Number: 267; 973 C683 No. 538
Description: Alphabet and number card for the instruction of Eskimos in Labrador.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Alphabets (Writing systems); Linguistics; Eskimos
Date: [ca. 1850?]

Title: A descriptive catalogue of Mr. Peale's exhibition of perspective views, with changeable effects; or, Nature delineated, and in motion. Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's Head, in Market Street
Identifier(s): text:333; APSimg6522; Goodman Number: 68; 973 C683 No. 16
Description: Charles Willson Peale's famed Philadelphia museum began in his home as a portrait gallery which was soon augmented with a hall of "moving pictures with changeable effects" advertised in the above broadside. Only one year after it was issued Peale began publicly advertising that a portion of his house would henceforth become a "repository for natural curiosities." 2 copies.
Creator: Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Galleries & museums; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Date: 1785

Title: Description of Allan Pollock's patent scale beam. ...All orders for balances for banks, or for hydrostatic weighing, weights and other apparatus, carefully attended to.... Also, a great variety of philosophical instruments, made by Allan Pollock, No. 1, Carver-Street, Boston.
Identifier(s): text:1780; APSimg6506; Goodman Number: 307; 973 C683 No. 300
Description: Description of Allan Pollock's patent scale beam. Includes an illustration of the beam.
Creator: Pollock, Allan
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Scales; Weights & measures
Date: n.d.

Title: The following geographical works have been published by John Melish, and are for sale, at the prices annexed
Identifier(s): text:303; APSimg6514; Goodman Number: 348; 973 C683 No. 77
Description: John Melish, born in Scotland and trained as a cotton merchant, began taking notes during his business travels in the United States on the geography, politics, and social life of the areas he visited. When he settled in Philadelphia in 1812, he published a two volume work, Travels in the United States, and soon thereafter began a highly succesful map publication firm.
Creator: Melish, John, 1771-1822
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Miscellaneous; Broadside Subdivision: ; Geography; Discovery & exploration; Maps
Date: ca. 1815

Title: Great American mastodon!! Now exhibiting at the hall
Identifier(s): text:349; APSimg6744; Goodman Number: 207; 973 C683 No. 477
Description: Indicates that James Darrach will be in attendance with the mastodon to answer all questions of visitors. This nearly complete mastodon skeleton, known as the Warren mastodon, was exhumed by Nathaniel Brewster and A. J. Prime from Orange County, New York, the same county in which Charles Willson Peale had found his mastodon remains nearly fifty years earlier (see #71 above). After mounting by Prime, the skeleton was exhibited in New York State and in various New England towns before being sold to Dr. John Collins Warren of Boston. Warren's heirs, in turn, sold the remains to the American Museum of Natural History in 1907.; Extra oversized.
Creator: Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Natural history; Paleontology; Mastodons
Date: [1845]

Title: Figures to denote the force of the wind. [Reverse side:] Letters to denote the state of the weather.
Identifier(s): text:232; APSimg6466; Goodman Number: 165; 973 C683 No. 476
Description: System of symbols to record meteorological data sent by Capt. F[rancis] Beaufort, hydrographer to the British Admiralty, to William Vaughan who, in turn, presented it to the American Philosophical Society, January 14, 1839.
Creator: Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774-1857
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Symbols
Date: [ca. 1839]

Title: To the nobility and gentry in particular, and public in general. Robert Raper, successor to the late famous Addrian Van Brocola, the first inventor and proprietor of the philosophical fire, and the undermentioned chymical preparations, which has gained him great esteem, at the Italian, German, and British Courts
Identifier(s): text:1464; APSimg6451; Goodman Number: 133; 973 C683 No. 523
Description: Inscription: "[illegible] of Union Street[,] Leeds, Honorable Thos. FitzMorris[,] Liverpool.
Creator: Raper, Robert
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Public speaking
Date: n.d.

Title: Paris et ses environs...dictionnaire historique, anecdotique, descriptif et topographique; religieux, politique, militaire, commercial et industriel...
Identifier(s): text:132; APSimg6437; Goodman Number: 104; 973 C683 No. 90
Description: According to this prospectus the following are among the areas to be treated in the descriptions of the various locations: ancient and modern geography, astronomical observations, museums, libraries, academies, natural productions, state of the agriculture, mines, rivers, canals, commerce, industry, and manufactures.
Creator: Saint-Edme, Edme Théodore Bourg, known as, 1785-1852
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Encyclopedias & dictionaries; Cities & towns
Date: n.d.

Title: The Chinese sensitive leaf. This is an account of the remarkably sympathetic power of the Chinese sensitive leaf, invented by one of the most celebrated operators, by the name of Jan Pertista Chaseretto, from China. ...If you wish to know the temper of a person, you lay this leaf in the palm of his left hand, and you will be delighted to see it move of itself
Identifier(s): text:1787; APSimg6513; Goodman Number: 336; 973 C683 No. 589
Description: This is an account of the remarkably sympathetic power of the Chinese sensitive leaf, invented by one of the most celebrated operators, by the name of Jan Pertista Chaseretto, from China.; Reverse of broadside includes French translation of the text.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: "Pseudo Science"; Broadside Subdivision: ; Talismans; Pseudo science; Leaves
Date: n.d.

Title: Table showing the behavior of certain minerals with citric acid alone, and with reagents
Identifier(s): text:252; APSimg6446; Goodman Number: 125; 973 C683 No. 171
Description: Gives the results of the combination of 200 "species" of minerals with citric acid alone and with the addition of NaNo3 and KI.; Those interested in the details of the methods used in the experiments are referred to the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. I, pp. 1 and 153.
Creator: Bolton, Henry Carrington, 1843-1903
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Minerals
Date: 1880

Title: This society is established for the advancement of astronomical science, by means of discussion, aided by a regular and continued series of observations, and extended correspondence. At a meeting of the members held on Tuesday, July 9, the following subjects were proposed for discussion, on the first Tuesday in each month.... 25, Bartlett's Buildings, Holburn. July 15th, 1839
Identifier(s): text:1447; APSimg6444; Goodman Number: 122; 973 C683 No. 338
Description: Signed in type by W. H. White, chairman of the society, and J. M. Cavliêr, honorary secretary.
Creator: Uranian Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Organizations
Date: 1839

Title: Approaching solar eclipse
Identifier(s): text:353; APSimg6527; Goodman Number: 111; 973 C683 No. 39
Description: Includes information regarding the extent of the eclipse in the Philadelphia area, as well as instructions on how it may be safely observed. Also includes a diagram which the represents the eclipse as it will be seen in Philadelphia.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Stargazing; Eclipses
Date: 1806

Title: Prospectus of Lippincott's Magazine. On the first of January, 1868, will be published the first number of this new monthly magazine of literature, science, and education
Identifier(s): text:141; APSimg6434; Goodman Number: 97; 973 C683 No. 342
Description: Prospectus of Lippincott's Magazine announcing the creation of a new magazine to be published in 1868 that will include coverage of topics in literature, science, and education.
Creator: J.B. Lippincott Company
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Periodicals; Science; Education; Literature
Date: ca. 1867

Title: A short account of the behemoth or mammoth
Identifier(s): text:64; APSimg1717; Goodman Number: 210; 973 C683 No. 279
Description: Rembrandt and Rubens Peale, sons of Charles Willson Peale, noted Philadelphia artist and museum proprietor, took one of two skeletons which they and their father had exhumed in New York (see broadside #583) for a European exhibition tour lasting a little over one year (1802-03). In an effort to obtain the funds necessary for their trip across the Atlantic, the two brothers first exhibited the fossilized creature in New York, an exhibit for which this broadside was issued.
Creator: Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Natural history; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Mammoths; Exhibitions; Paleontology
Date: 1802