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Title: Thomas Dobson, no. 41, South Second Street, Philadelphia, having happily completed the American edition of the Encyclopedia, in eighteen volumes, has been repeatedly urged, by many of his most zealous patrons of that work, to offer a proposal for publishing a supplement to the Encyclopedia; in which the mistakes of former volumes might be corrected, and some account given of the recent discoveries of greatest importance
Identifier(s): text:1603; APSimg6628; Goodman Number: 91
Description: According to the broadside, the supplement was to be based on the work of the Rev. George Gleig, the editor of the "last six volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica." Specifically mentions mechanics, chemistry, engines, machines, mills, watch and clock making, dynamics, astronomy, electricity, and magnetism as subjects areas to be brought up to date in the supplement.; Item call number: 308 Pam., no. 69
Creator: Dobson, Thomas, 1751-1823
Source: Pamphlet Collection (308 Pam.);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Encyclopedias & dictionaries; Science
Date: n.d.

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: From the Utica Morning Herald, January 15, 1896. Oneida historians. Annual meeting of the county historical society. Officers elected and reports presented--women admitted to membership for the first time in the history of the society
Identifier(s): text:1018; APSimg6625; Goodman Number: 46
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. 32.
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; Women's rights; Membership campaigns
Date: 1896

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: St. John's, Newfoundland.... Table shewing the mean temperature, as also the mean height of the barometer in each month in the 8 years, ending 31st December, 1841--with the extremes of each, and the days on which such extremes occurred. Compiled from observations made by Joseph Templeman, of the Colonial Secretary's Office
Identifier(s): text:1747; APSimg6735; Goodman Number: 176; 973 C683 No. 256
Description: Table showing the average temperature and barmetric pressure for an eight-year period in Newfoundland, Canada.; Oversized.
Creator: Templeman, Joseph
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Temperature; Barometers; Weather
Date: ca. 1842

Title: The course of examination and questions propounded in the several schools of the University of Virginia, at the late public examination in July, 1828
Identifier(s): text:36; APSimg6627; Goodman Number: 88
Description: Areas of science-related exam questions listed include: mathematics, under Professor [Charles] Bonnycastle, chemistry and materia medica, under Dr. [John P.] Emmet, and medicine under Drs. [Robley] Dunglison and [Thomas] Johnson. From the papers of Robert M. Patterson.; Item call number: 510 Pam. xp no. 6.
Creator: University of Virginia
Source: Robert Maskell Patterson Papers (510 Pam. xp);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Universities & colleges; Examinations
Date: 1828

Title: Prospectus d'un ouvrage ayant pour titre: Florindie, ou Histoire phisico-économique des végétaux de la torride.... Cet ouvrage, dédié au Cercle des Philadelphes, sera orné d'un grand nombre de figures dessinées & coloriées par l'auteur
Identifier(s): text:1135; local: APSimg6641; local: 192
Description: Received by the American Philosophical Society on March 20, 1789 from [Charles] Arthaud, secretary of the Cercle des Philadelphes. Includes illustration featuring design of sunrays and boughs tied with ribbon.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1086, no. 15.
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Botany; Plants
Date: 1788

Title: Peintures de vases antiques, vulgairement appelés vases étrusques, tirés de différentes collections
Identifier(s): text:1168; local: APSimg6657; local: 263
Description: Prospectus for work proposed and published by C. M. Dubois- Maisonneuve, illustrated by A. Agne-Clener, and written by Millin. Peintures de vases antiques appeared 1808-1810.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1102, no. 5.
Creator: Millin, A. L. (Aubin Louis), 1759-1818et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities; Vases
Date: ca. 1808

Title: Sir[,] I take the liberty to inclose to you the proceedings instituted under the authority of the University of the State of New
Identifier(s): text:597; APSimg6749; Goodman Number: 177
Description: Cover letter and four-page document giving resolutions of the Regents of the University of the State of New York regarding meteorological observations. Requires the 56 institutions under its auspices to begin a regular, systematic program of meteorological observation and offers detailed instructions on the exact procedures required to carry out those observations. Autograph signature of S[imeon] DeWitt who sent the document to John Vaughan on November 24, 1825.; Located in folder: DeWitt, Simeon to John Vaughan. 1825 Nov. 24.
Creator: University of the State of New York
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives, Manuscript Communications (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/a/apsmc.xml
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Weather; Temperature
Date: 1825

Title: Phrenological character of _____ by Mr [C. H. Canfield] practical phrenologist
Identifier(s): text:296; APSimg6552; Goodman Number: 284; 973 C683 No. 596
Description: Phrenological chart, with numerical notations by C. H. Canfield.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Phrenology; Phrenology; Pseudo science
Date: n.d.

Title: To the public. The address of the New-York Historical Society
Identifier(s): text:826; APSimg6691; Goodman Number: 38
Description: Originally contained with letter from Samuel Miller to Ebenezer Hazard, October 24, 1810, indicating to Hazard that he had been elected an honorary member of the society. Requests receiver to "promote the objects of our institution" by transmitting books, pamphlets, maps, and manuscripts on various subjects and includes a specific request for "statistical tables- -tables of diseases, births, and deaths, and of population; of meteorological observations and facts relating to climate." Signed in type by John Pintard, recording secretary.; Folder #32.
Creator: New-York Historical Society
Source: Ebenezer Hazard Papers (Mss.B.H338);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Historical societies; History; Natural history
Date: 1809

Title: Lectures on geology. By John Finch, F.B.S. Author of several geological essays
Identifier(s): text:240; APSimg6457; Goodman Number: 146; 973 C683 No. 574
Description: Proposal to offer a series of 12 lectures on geology, probably in Boston. Finch, a British geologist, traveled extensively in the eastern United States and Canada in the second and third decades of the nineteenth century, publishing articles on the geology of the areas he visited in American scientific journals. In 1833 he published a full account of his stay in America under the title Travels in the United States and Canada, containing some account of their scientific institutions, and a few notices of the geology and mineralogy of those countries (London, 1833).
Creator: Finch, John, Esq.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Geology; Public speaking
Date: [ca. 1830]

Title: Demonstracion de los anteojos que se han inventado para conservar, y aumentar la vista. Explicacion del uso de los anteojos para todo genero de personas
Identifier(s): text:664; APSimg6670; Goodman Number: 304
Description: Illustrated broadside including numerous images of spectacles and other optical devices created to improve or enhance vision. Engraved by "Paulus Minguet."; Located in folder: Photographs, prints, etc. of optical instrument makers and materials.
Creator: Minguet é Irol, Pablo, d. 1801?
Source: Thomas Court Scientific Instruments Collection (Mss.509.078.M582);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Eyeglasses; Optical devices; Telescopes
Date: n.d.

Title: Royal Menagerie, Exeter 'Change, Strand, the grandest national depot of animated nature in the world, open for inspection every day...contains the greatest assemblage of curiosities ever collected together since the days of the primeval collector of natural curiosities, Old Noah
Identifier(s): text:1759; APSimg6526; Goodman Number: 77; 973 C683 No. 590
Description: A broadside for a nineteenth-century London menagerie possessing a large number and variety of animals from across the globe. The reverse contains a poem entitled "A Public Supper," which advertises the animals on display in rhyme.
Creator: Royal Menagerie, London
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Natural history; Zoos
Date: n.d.

Title: Baltimore, Maryland, _____ 183_. The Maryland Academy of Science and Literature, having lately had the misfortune to lose its valuable museum and library by fire, respectfully and earnestly appeals to those who feel a common interest in its pursuits, for aid in repairing its loss
Identifier(s): text:1774; APSimg6395; Goodman Number: 31; 973 C683 No. 618
Description: Manuscript date of March 19, 1836. Circular letter signed in type by P. McCaulay, president of the academy, and J. Mason Campbell, secretary. Includes instructions for properly preparing natural history specimens to be sent to the academy.
Creator: Maryland Academy of Science and Literature
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Assistance; Organizations
Date: 1836

Title: New-York, March 2, 1829. Sir, Several gentlemen in this city have formed an association for the purpose of sending a suitable person to collect objects in natural history in some of the more remote parts of the United States; to which you are invited to contribute, provided the plan meets your approbation. ...Shares are fixed at $10 each. The expense of the journey for one year, exclusive of transportation of collections, is estimated at $600. Dr. H. Gates, a gentleman well qualified, is engaged, and will depart about the 15th of March, provided forty shares have been then subscribed for.
Identifier(s): text:1757; APSimg6511; Goodman Number: 325; 973 C683 No. 633
Description: Circular letter asking for funding to support the collection of objects in natural history from across the United States. Interested parties are requested to direct their replies to John Le Conte, John Torrey, and William Cooper.
Creator: Lyceum of Natural History (New York, N.Y.)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Natural history; Specimens; Discovery & exploration
Date: 1829