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- Title
- Prospectus du Cercle des Philadelphes, Établi au Cap
- Identifier(s)
- text:1136; local: APSimg6617; local: 25
- Description
- Prospectus of a publication on the scientific society Cercle des Philadelphes.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1086, no. 11.
- Creator
- Cercle des Philadelpheset al
- Subject
- Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Science
- Date
- ca. 1784
- Title
- Sir-- At a meeting of citizens called in this city, a few months since, to consider the practicability and expediency of establishing a National Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the undersigned were appointed a committee to mature a constitution, and to make report of the same, at a subsequent meeting. ...A meeting will be held on Monday evening, October 17th, at 7 o'clock in Clinton Hall, when a report of the proceedings of the committee will be presented...and a society organized. ...New-York, Oct. 14, 1836
- Identifier(s)
- text:1758; APSimg6397; Goodman Number: 36; 973 C683 No. 698
- Description
- Typed invitation to meet and form an organization: the National Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Signed in type by William A. Duer, Gorham D. Abbot, Peter G. Stuyvesant, John Knox, Samuel Ward, Henry Cary, William Bard, John Proudfit, and John T. Gilchrist.
- Creator
- National Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
- Source
- Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
- Subject
- Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Invitations; Organizations
- Date
- 1836
- Title
- Constitution of the West-Point Lyceum of Natural History
- Identifier(s)
- text:103; APSimg6399; Goodman Number: 62; 973 C683 No. 735
- Description
- Constitution of a society comprised of members from the United States Military Academy who are concerned with the advancement of natural history, the West-Point Lyceum of Natural History.
- Creator
- West-Point Lyceum of Natural History
- Source
- Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
- Subject
- Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Constitutions; Natural history; Organizations; Military academies
- Date
- [ca. 1825]
- Title
- Circular. It is proposed to commence a system of education, in Rutgers' College, consistent with the improvements of the age, in the all important art of instruction. By the system intended to be pursued, the arts and sciences will be taught practically as well as theoretically.... The arts will be taught by practice, under skilful [sic] professors, the sciences as follows
- Identifier(s)
- text:1409; APSimg6421; Goodman Number: 83; 973 C683 No. 428
- Description
- In addition to listing the new program of science instruction at the college, the circular also requests donations of natural history specimens for the college museum and funds to purchase scientific apparatus.; A section is cut out and missing from the circular.
- Creator
- Rutgers College
- Source
- Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
- Subject
- Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Universities & colleges; Teaching; Sciences
- Date
- n.d.
- Title
- Sir, A number of the citizens of this state have recently formed a society under the title of the Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina
- Identifier(s)
- text:114; APSimg6407; Goodman Number: 30; 973 C683 No. 80
- Description
- Circular letter, originally sent to John Vaughan, requesting the receiver to aid the society with observations and discoveries and to communicate this request to others. Especially entreats reader to forward natural history specimens in order that the society might augment the holdings of its newly-founded museum. Autograph signature of Stephen Elliot, president of the society.
- Creator
- Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina
- Source
- Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
- Subject
- Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Natural history; Organizations; Galleries & museums
- Date
- ca. 1813
- Title
- Atto di aggiudicazione dei premi d'onore del concorso 1892-93. Modena, 10 Febbraio 1895
- Identifier(s)
- text:147; APSimg6409; Goodman Number: 50; 973 C683 No. 479
- Description
- Signed in type by the academy's president, Pietro Riccardi and its secretary general, Giorgio Ferrari Moreni.
- Creator
- Reale Accademia di scienze, lettere e d'arti di Modena
- Source
- Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
- Subject
- Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Educational organizations
- Date
- 1895
- Title
- A catalogue of officers and students in Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, January 1st, 1820
- Identifier(s)
- text:292; APSimg6740; Goodman Number: 84; 973 C683 No. 34
- Description
- Lists Constantine S. Rafinesque as professor of botany and natural history, and teacher of modern languages, Charles Caldwell as professor of the institutes of medicine, teacher of materia medica, and dean of the medical faculty, Samuel Brown, professor of theory and practice of physic, Benjamin W. Dudley as professor of anatomy and surgery, William Richardson as professor of obstetrics, and diseases of women and children, James Blythe as professor of chemistry, and Robert H. Bishop as professor of natural philosophy and mathematics. Also includes list of medical students at the university.; Extra oversized.
- Creator
- Transylvania University
- Source
- Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
- Subject
- Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Universities & colleges; Teachers; Students
- Date
- 1820
- Title
- Notice sur la séance publique du Cercle des Philadelphes, tenue le 15 août 1788. [Page 2:] Programme des prix proposes par le Cercle des Philadelphes
- Identifier(s)
- text:1156; local: APSimg6618; local: 27
- Description
- Lists several prizes proposed by the society, including: a means of manufacturing paper resistent to insects, a method of determining the point of "lessive" in the manufacture of sugar, the most efficient use of slave labor in the cultivation of sugar, a discussion of the maladies produced by different species of worms and fish, and a method of preventing insects from infesting the Royal grainhouses.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1101, no. 15.
- Creator
- Cercle des Philadelpheset al
- Subject
- Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Natural history; Organizations; Awards
- Date
- 1788
- Title
- By order of the president. Sir, The committee (to whom the consideration of the papers communicated to the society at their weekly meetings is referred...) having been appointed to meet at the society's house in Crane-Court, Fleetstreet
- Identifier(s)
- text:816; APSimg6675; Goodman Number: 54
- Description
- Invitation to attend a meeting of a committe of the Royal Society, London. Includes autograph signature of Emanuel Mendes da Costa, dated July 13, 1767.
- Creator
- Royal Society (Great Britain)
- Source
- Franklin-Bache Papers (Mss.B.F85.ba); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85ba-ead.xml
- Subject
- Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Meetings; Organizations
- Date
- 1767
- Title
- Geleerde en Andere Genootshappen
- Identifier(s)
- text:599; APSimg6600; Goodman Number: 22
- Description
- Page 1 lists officers and members of the publication and museum committees. Page 2 gives a list of the 77 members of the society. Manuscript addition indicates that the document lists "committees and members in 1818."; Left hand portion of document missing.
- Creator
- Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen
- 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; Natural history; Organizations
- Date
- ca. 1818
- Title
- Monsieur, Le Musée de Paris ayant transporté ses séances au local de M. [Jean-François] Pilatre de Rozier....A l'hôtel du Musée de Paris...le 28 août 1783
- Identifier(s)
- text:85; APSimg6396; Goodman Number: 32; 973 C683 No. 570
- Description
- Sent to Benjamin Franklin while he was in Passy, France. Manuscript signature of [Jean-François] Cailhava [d'Estendoux], president of the society.
- Creator
- Musée de Paris
- Source
- Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
- Subject
- Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Galleries & museums; Invitations
- Date
- 1783
- Title
- Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A., July 21, 1880. Sir: It is with deep regret that I am obliged to inform you of the death of Count Louis François de Pourtalès, the keeper of this museum
- Identifier(s)
- text:143; APSimg6415; Goodman Number: 67; 973 C683 No. 656
- Description
- Black-bordered notification of the death of this Swiss naturalist who came to the United States in 1846 and became the keeper of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard from 1873 until his death.
- Creator
- Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology
- Source
- Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
- Subject
- Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Announcements; Galleries & museums; Death
- Date
- 1880
- Title
- (From the Utica Morning Herald, Jan. 13, 1872 [sic; should be 1892?].) Historical. Annual Meeting of the Oneida Society. Reports presented and officers elected--an able address by S. N. D. North of Boston on "The evolution of the factory system."
- Identifier(s)
- text:1021; APSimg6621; Goodman Number: 42
- 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. 20.
- 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; Factories; Capitalism; Industrialization
- Date
- 1892?
- Title
- Annual Election of Officers and Councilors, 1896...[Obverse] Officers for 1896
- Identifier(s)
- text:116; APSimg6404; Goodman Number: 20; 973 C683 No. 610
- Description
- Stated meetings of the officers and council [and]...society [as well as the]...stated business of the meeting. ...Officiating secretaries and curators. [Obverse side:] Officers for 1896. [and]...standing committees.
- Creator
- American Philosophical Society
- Source
- Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
- Subject
- Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Organizations
- Date
- 1896
- Title
- "The field is the world." London, May 18, 1860
- Identifier(s)
- text:142; APSimg6411; Goodman Number: 61; 973 C683 No. 591
- Description
- List of resolutions of the Universal Scientific Conference Includes a "list of [20] names annexed to the programme printed in Edinburgh, Feb. 1860, continued." Signed in type by G. Dibley, secretary, pro tempore.
- Creator
- Universal Scientific Congress
- Source
- Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
- Subject
- Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Meetings; Organizations; Resolutions
- Date
- 1860
- Title
- Resolutions in reference to daylight saving adopted by the American Philosophical Society
- Identifier(s)
- text:87; APSimg6393; Goodman Number: 21; 973 C683 No. 612
- Description
- Resolutions in reference to daylight saving adopted by the American Philosophical Society. Urges enactment of U. S. House Bill No. 2609 and Senate Bill No. 1854, both daylight savings bills.
- Creator
- American Philosophical Society
- Source
- Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
- Subject
- Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Resolutions
- Date
- n.d.
- Title
- Constitution of the Paterson Philosophical Society
- Identifier(s)
- text:321; APSimg6519; Goodman Number: 48; 973 C683 No. 604
- Description
- Constitution of the Paterson Philosophical Society.Lists fifteen articles of the constitution of the society, organized January 15, 1827 and disbanded by December 1839. Signed in type by A. H. Freeman.
- Creator
- Paterson Philosophical Society
- Source
- Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
- Subject
- Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Natural history; Organizations; Organizational rules
- Date
- 1827
- Title
- (From the Utica Morning Herald, April 13, 1892). Oneida Historical Society. Business session held yesterday afternoon--a paper by General C. W. Darling on "Pre-historic archaeology of America" read last evening
- Identifier(s)
- text:1020; APSimg6623; Goodman Number: 44
- 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. 28.
- 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; Archaeological sites; Antiquities
- Date
- 1892
- Title
- Catalogue of fishes, mollusca, zoophytes, &c., &c., at Aquarial Gardens, no. 21 Bromfield Street, Boston. Cutting and Butler,...proprietors. ...Boston, May 29, 1860
- Identifier(s)
- text:128; APSimg6413; Goodman Number: 64; 973 C683 No. 480
- Description
- Lists the contents of 40 tanks of aquatic specimens and nine cages of land animals.
- Creator
- Boston Aquarial and Zoological Gardens
- Source
- Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
- Subject
- Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Aquariums; Zoos
- Date
- 1860
- Title
- Philosophical Hall, Philadelphia, (Circular.) Sir, the American Philosophical Society have always considered the antiquity, changes, and present state of their country as primary objects of their research; and with a view to facilitate such discoveries, a permanent committee has been established, among whose duties the following have been recommended as requiring particular attention.
- Identifier(s)
- text:1341; APSimg6403; Goodman Number: 12; 973 C683 No. 106
- Description
- Gives the following as members of the committee: Thomas Jefferson, James Wilkinson, George Turner, Caspar Wistar, Adam Seybert, C[harles] W[illson] Peale, and Jon[athan] Williams. Circular letter signed by Jon[athan] Williams, chairman of the committee.
- Creator
- American Philosophical Society
- Source
- Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
- Subject
- Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Committees; Natural history
- Date
- 1797 ?