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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: 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: 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: 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

Title: Journal of morphology
Identifier(s): text:300; APSimg6485; Goodman Number: 231; 973 C683 No. 204
Description: Prospectus for this journal of animal morphology founded in 1887 and devoted to "embryological, anatomical, and histological subjects." Whitman, a biologist who made valuable contributions in embryology, comparative anatomy, taxonomy, evolution, and animal behavior, held a variety of posts in museums and academic institutions during his lifetime.
Creator: Whitman, Charles Otis, 1842-1910
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Zoology
Date: ca. 1887

Title: Just arrived!!! A great serpent, from America
Identifier(s): text:317; APSimg6532; Goodman Number: 225; 973 C683 No. 744
Description: Advertises the exhibition of a "sea-serpent" captured near the coast of Cape Ann Harbor. At first glance it appears that the serpent is 50 feet long, but closer examination of this carefully worded document reveals that the animal on exhibit is merely the "same breed" as the "great one" which was able to elude its would-be captors.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Specimens; Animal shows
Date: ca. 1818

Title: Latham's History of birds, with etchings by the author, accurately coloured. ...A complete history of birds, down to the present time
Identifier(s): text:306; APSimg6483; Goodman Number: 226; 973 C683 No. 246
Description: Prospectus for a work from John Latham, a British physician who retired from practice in 1796 to devote his full energies to the study which he had enjoyed from his youth, ornithology. His History of birds was published in 11 volumes, 1821-28.
Creator: Latham, John, 1740-1837
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Ornithology; Birds
Date: [ca. 1821]

Title: The acorns and their germination
Identifier(s): text:1182; local: APSimg6640; local: 191
Description: Describes the structure and development of acorns in numerous species of oaks (Quercus). Reprinted from the Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 4 (no. 1), pp. 190-92.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1183, no. 7.
Creator: Engelmann, George, 1809-1884et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Botany; Oaks; Seeds
Date: [1880]

Title: Directions for taking care of the cochineal insects while at sea / Soins a observer pour la Conservation des Insects Cochenille a bord des Vaisseaux Sur Mer
Identifier(s): text:1191; local: APSimg6643; local: 213
Description: Detailed instructions on shipping this economically valuable insect to the "settlements in India." In English and French.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1198, no. 5.
Creator: Anderson, James, 1739-1808et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Insects; Dyeing; Ocean travel
Date: 1789

Title: A concise abstract of the contents of a cabinet of British organic remains, more particularly of Tertiary fossil shells...selected from their respective localities, during a period of twenty-five years, by Richard C. Taylor, Fellow of the Geological Society of London.... It is chiefly in consideration of the great risk attending its removal to its present residence, west of the Alleghanies, that, after a year's deliberation, he has determined to offer it for sale in Philadelphia
Identifier(s): text:1455; APSimg6476; Goodman Number: 211; 973 C683 No. 78
Description: Advertises the sale and lists the contents of fossil collection of this British geologist and mining engineer who immigrated to the United States in 1830. After his arrival to America Taylor became involved in economic geology of Pennsylvania, and his reputation for competency soon won him assignments from as far away as Cuba and Panama. In 1848 Taylor's Statistics of coal was published to highly favorable reviews.
Creator: Taylor, Richard C. (Richard Cowling), 1789-1851
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Fossils; Shells
Date: n.d.

Title: Popular lectures on natural history, ...as lecture committees repeatedly ask for notices of the press regarding the lectures of Professor Morse, the following are selected from hundreds
Identifier(s): text:584; APSimg6647; Goodman Number: 228a
Description: Numerous newspaper testimonials attesting to Morse's skill as a lecturer of natural history. After studying conchology under Louis Agassiz at the Lawrence Scientific School, Morse went on to become an active zoologist, popular lecturer, and beginning in 1880, director of the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts. Includes testimonial in German. See also Goodman #228 (973 C683, no. 497).; Item call number: 920 Pam., no. 349.
Creator: Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925
Source: Pamphlet Collection (920 Pam.);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Public speaking; Zoology
Date: n.d.

Title: The North American sylva, [missing line] of the forest trees, of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia, considered particularly, with respect to their uses in the arts and introduction in commerce. Including also the description and figures of the most useful European forest trees.
Identifier(s): text:1783; APSimg6470; Goodman Number: 197; 973 C683 No. 44
Description: Prospectus for an English-language version of Michaux's three volume work published in 1817. Michaux's North America sylva was first published in French (1810-13).
Creator: Michaux, François André, 1770-1855
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Botany; Forests; Trees
Date: 1817

Title: Synopsis of a course of lectures, on the osteology and paleontology, or the frame-work and fossils, of the class Mammalia.
Identifier(s): text:964; APSimg6727; Goodman Number: 209
Description: Advertises a series of twelve lectures to be offered by this distinguished British anatomist and paleontologist who had become the superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum only one year before this document was issued. According to this broadsheet Owen's lecture was to be devoted almost entirely to fossil mammals.; Item call number: B Ow2.1 no. 22.
Creator: Owen, Richard, 1804-1892
Source: Sir Richard Owen Papers (Mss.B.Ow2);
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Natural history; Paleontology; Fossils; Mammals
Date: 1857

Title: Proposals for publishing by subscription, a work on the fish of North America, with plates, drawn and coloured from nature. By C. A. Lesueur
Identifier(s): text:567; APSimg6664; Goodman Number: 227
Description: Prospectus for a work on the fish of North America. Intended for a broad audience, subscribers would be able to purchase volumes from the series at forty cents a piece.
Creator: Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846
Source: Pamphlet Collection (597 L56p);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Fish
Date: 1827

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: Librairie de Pichon et Didier. Cours de l'histoire naturelle des Mammifères, professé au Jardin du Roi par M. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, les lundis, mercredis et vendredis. Recueilli par une Société de Sténographes, revu par le professeur, et publié par leçons. Prospectus.
Identifier(s): text:1070; local: APSimg6646; local: 222
Description: Prospectus for the publication of a lecture series of Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire who in 1793 became professor of zoology at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris at the young age of 21. When the Jardin was reorganized in June of 1793, Geoffroy was named professor of quadrupeds, cetaceans, birds, reptiles, and fish.; Item call number: Pam. v. 105, no. 20.
Creator: Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne, 1772-1844et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Mammals; Public speaking
Date: 1793

Title: Discovery of viviparous fish in Louisiana. New Orleans, Nov. 1, 1854
Identifier(s): text:559; APSimg6645; Goodman Number: 220
Description: Reprinted from the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal.; Item call number: 590 Pam. v. 14, no. 2.
Creator: Dowler, Bennet, 1797-1879
Source: Zoological Pamphlet Collection (590 Pam. v. 14);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Fish
Date: 1854

Title: Histoire naturelle économique et politique des poissons utilies; précédée de celle des morses, des phoques et des cétacées
Identifier(s): text:595; APSimg6612; Goodman Number: 229
Description: Prospectus for a work published as Histoire générale des pêches anciennes et modernes dans les mers et les fluves des duex continens (Paris, 1815). Noël de la Morinière's life-long study of fish, both from the viewpoint of their natural history and economic value, earned him the offices of inspector of navigation and inspector general of oceanic fishing in France.; Located in folder: Morniere to Thomas Jefferson. 1813 February 5.
Creator: Morinière, Noël de la, 1765-1822
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/a/apsmc.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Fish; Aquatic animals; Fishing industry
Date: 1812

Title: North America. A working map for illustrating, by coloration, the geographical distribution of life. Prepared for the Boston Society of Natural History by William C. Cleveland
Identifier(s): text:1198; local: APSimg6652; local: 239
Description: On back of map is attached a circular letter from Samuel H. Scudder of the Boston Society of Natural History describing it as a sample of one the society is selling, "designed for marking, by pencil or water-colours, the limits of known distribution of a given species of animals or plants over the area delimited."; Item call number: Pam. v. 1218, no. 4.
Creator: Cleveland, William C.et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Geography; Maps; Natural history
Date: 1868

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