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Title: Report of the Boston committee, appointed by the meeting of merchants and others, on the subject of procuring a telescope of the first class, for astronomical observations, &c.
Identifier(s): text:131; APSimg6443; Goodman Number: 121; 973 C683 No. 449
Description: Gives succinct view of the importance of telescopes in science and commerce in an effort to garner support for the purchase of a high quality telescope in Boston. Especially stresses the role of astronomical observation in navigation. Signed in type by John Pickering, Francis C. Gray, Jona[than] Phillips, W[illia]m Appleton, and Israel Lombard, members of the committee.
Creator: Boston Committee
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Longitude; Telescopes
Date: 1843

Title: Philadelphia, November 1, 1776. Sir, Your company is requested at the Philosophical Society Hall, this evening at six o'clock, on business of importance
Identifier(s): text:592; APSimg6598; Goodman Number: 9
Description: Invitation to attend a meeting at Philosophical Society Hall.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society--Meetings; Organizations
Date: 1776

Title: Catalogue of books, French and English, late the property of A. J. Dallas, Esquire, dec'd. ...April 11, 1817
Identifier(s): text:140; APSimg6435; Goodman Number: 99; 973 C683 No. 336
Description: Books available for auction. Includes several science-related publications.; Contains numerical annotations.
Creator: Passmore & Birckhead
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Auction catalogs; Books
Date: 1817

Title: Salem, Mass., Feby. 28, 1866. Your address has been received for publication in the Naturalists' Directory and will appear in the second part, now in press. To assist in securing accuracy your attention is called to the enclosed slip relating to yourself, and you will confer a favor on the editor of the "Directory" by correcting any errors and returning it to him as soon as possible.
Identifier(s): text:1386; APSimg6431; Goodman Number: 92; 973 C683 No. 607
Description: Signed in type by F[rederic] W[ard] Putnam, superintendent of the museum of the Essex Institute and editor of parts I and II of the Naturalists' Directory published by the institute and appended to its Proceedings in 1865-66. After a hiatus of over 11 years, the Naturalists' Directory resumed publication in 1877 under the editorship of Samuel E. Cassino and has been irregularly published up to the present.
Creator: Essex Institute
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Natural history; Organizations
Date: 1866

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: 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: From the Utica Morning Herald, January 12, 1898. Historical Society. Annual address delivered by William Cary Sanger
Identifier(s): text:1022; APSimg6626; Goodman Number: 47
Description: Document summarizing the proceedings of a meeting of the Oneida Historical Society. Appears to be an offprint from the Utica Morning Herald. The Oneida Historical Society was founded in 1876 and continues to exist today.; Item call number: Pam. v. 89, no. 35.
Creator: Oneida Historical Society at Utica
Source: Pamphlet Collection (Pam. v. 89);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Historical societies; New York (State); Patriotism
Date: 1898

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: 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: 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: (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: College of New Jersey. Examination in chemistry. (Required.) Saturday, Dec. 19, 1885
Identifier(s): text:847; APSimg6712; Goodman Number: 134
Description: Nine questions ranging from "Which of all elements studied is most abundant?" to "What do chemists mean by saying carbon is a tetrad?" from Schank who began instruction of chemistry at the College of New Jersey in 1854, was promoted to the rank of professor in 1857, and became emeritus in 1892.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Schanck, John Stillwell, 1817-1898.
Source: Elisha Kent Kane Papers. Printed Material. (Mss.B.K132.p); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.K132.p-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Examinations; Universities & colleges
Date: 1885

Title: This is to certify that _____ of _____ was this __ day of _____ 18__, admitted and sworn to the freedom of the above named Company
Identifier(s): text:663; APSimg6672; Goodman Number: 313
Description: Certificate of membership for the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, London, which includes the seal and oath of the organization.
Creator: Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers (Great Britain)
Source: Thomas Court Scientific Instruments Collection (Mss.509.078.M582);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Eyeglasses; Organizations; Optical industry
Date: [18__]

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]