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Title: Programme of organization of the Smithsonian Institution. (Presented to the Board of Regents, Dec. 8, 1847.)
Identifier(s): text:832; APSimg6710; Goodman Number: 57
Description: Includes an introduction giving "general considerations which should serve as a guide in adopting a plan of organization," as well as "details of the plan to increase knowledge," "details of the plan for diffusing knowledge," and "plan of organization...providing for the two modes of increasing and diffusing knowledge."; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Smithsonian Institution
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: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Smithsonian Institution; Organizational rules; Natural history
Date: 1847

Title: Notice. Books, specimens, or communications sent from foreign countries to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, should be addressed to _____ London
Identifier(s): text:608; APSimg6601; Goodman Number: 53
Description: Blank filled in in manuscript: "Mr. Benjamin Bromley, British Museum in." Sent from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to the American Philosophical Society on December 28 1836, with manuscript note attached.
Creator: Royal Society of Edinburgh
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. 1836

Title: Members
Identifier(s): text:83; APSimg6394; Goodman Number: 24; 973 C683 No. 660
Description: Member list of club. Lists the following as members of the club: C. S. Boker, J. Darrach, Franklin B. Gowen, Isaac Hinckley, W[illia]m Hunt, J. H. Hutchinson, J. L. Le Conte, J. Leidy, S. Weir Mitchell, J. Cheston Morris, J. H. Packard, R. A. F. Penrose, Aubrey H. Smith, Cha[rle]s E. Smith, Caspar Wister, Walter F. Atlee, W. A. Hammond, and Samuel Powell.
Creator: Biological Club
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations
Date: n.d.

Title: Sir[,] These are to give notice that on the thirteenth day of November 179_, being St. Andrew's Day, the council and officers of the Royal Society are to be elected...at which election, your presence is expected
Identifier(s): text:976; APSimg6693; Goodman Number: 55
Description: Autograph signature of Jos[eph] Banks. Sent to [Charles] Burney, November 21, 1794. Date of election has been crossed out in document and changed in manuscript from November 13th to December 1st.
Creator: Royal Society (Great Britain)
Source: Sir James Paget Letters (Mss.B.P212);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Meetings; Organizations; Natural history
Date: 1794

Title: University of Pennsylvania, (Faculty of arts.) October 25th, 1867. A very important change having been made in the system of instruction in the university...a circular was issued, on the 9th of September, by the faculty, containing a detailed statement of the new plan. ...Since the opening of the term, several slight...modifications having been adopted, it is thought best to issue...a full explanation of the new system
Identifier(s): text:1393; APSimg6423; Goodman Number: 87; 973 C683 No. 205
Description: Gives course of studies for the bachelor of arts degree including the following science-related subjects: mathematics, chemistry, physics, physical astronomy, and geography. Signed in type by Francis A. Parkman, secretary of the board of trustees.
Creator: University of Pennsylvania
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Universities & colleges; Science
Date: 1867

Title: Royal Birth. On Thursday, May 22, 1817, the largest lioness in the kingdom, produced two beautiful whelps, male and female (of which one is now living) at the Royal Menagerie, Exeter 'Change, Strand, London, which has recently been substantially improved, by E. Cross, successor to the late S. Polito
Identifier(s): text:1760; APSimg6525; Goodman Number: 76; 973 C683 No. 743
Description: In 1817, the same year this broadside was issued, the menagerie at Exeter Change again changed hands when Edward Cross, an experienced traveling showman and animal dealer, bought the collection. Under Cross the menagerie experienced a phenomenal growth in both its collections and its popularity.
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: ca. 1817

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Boston, November 1, 1838. In consequence of communications between members of the American Philosophical Society, in Philadelphia, and gentlemen in Boston, a meeting was held in the latter place, of gentlemen belonging to Boston, Salem, and the University at Cambridge...to form an institution to be called the American Institution for the Cultivation of Science, having for its object the advancement of physical science and literature
Identifier(s): text:1765; APSimg6389; Goodman Number: 8; 973 C683 No. 192
Description: Resolution concerning formation of the American Institution for the Cultivation of Science. Lists the following members of the committee of correspondence: John C. Warren, Judge [Joseph] Story, John Pickering, F. C. Gray, Daniel Treadwell, and Dr. [Enoch] Hale. Signed in type by John C. Warren, chairman of the committee.
Creator: American Institution for the Cultivation of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Resolutions
Date: 1838

Title: Dem Rector und Lehrer-Collegium des Gymnasiums zu Görlitz
Identifier(s): text:384; APSimg6518; Goodman Number: 39; 973 C683 No. 472
Description: Reproduces address delivered in honor of the three-hundreth anniversary of the gymnasium which indicates that the school has had a science-based curriculum since its inception during the Renaissance.; Oversized.
Creator: Oberlausitzische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Education; Schools; Science; Anniversaries
Date: 1865

Title: May 10, 1848. Sir: The Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, at its meeting in Boston, on the 24th of September, 1847, resolved itself into the American Association for the Promotion of Science, elected its officers as such, and appointed the time and place of the first meeting...to be in the city of Philadelphia, on the third Wednesday (20th) of September, 1848, at 10 o'clock, a.m. [Page 2:] List of Officers.
Identifier(s): text:1321; APSimg6402; Goodman Number: 6; 973 C683 No. 211
Description: Signed in type by Samuel George Morton, chairman of the local committee, and Walter R. Johnson, secretary.; Morton and Johnson's reason for referring to their society as the American Association for the Promotion of Science is not entirely clear, for Goodman #3 clearly points out that the American Association of Geologists and Naturalists was resolved into the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the name which the organization has clearly taken by 1849 (see Goodman #4). One possible explanation for the discrepancy might be that both names were proposed at the September 1847 meeting and neither clearly adopted. Alternately, the organization might have been at first known by the name used by Morton above and later change to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (in which case Goodman #3 would postdate this document).
Creator: American Association for the Promotion of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Science; Invitations
Date: 1848

Title: From the Utica Morning Herald, January 11, 1893. Local historians. Annual meeting of the Oneida Historical Society. Officers elected
Identifier(s): text:1026; APSimg6624; Goodman Number: 45
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. 29.
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; Judicial proceedings
Date: 1893

Title: Amusement here with science is combin'd, to please, improve, and cultivate the mind
Identifier(s): text:137; APSimg6412; Goodman Number: 63; 973 C683 No. 164
Description: This broadside, apparently made up of parts clipped from a larger item and pasted together, is possibly an advertisement for Peale's Museum. Ill.: wood engraving by Lansing of eagle holding shield and arrows.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Galleries & museums; Advertisements
Date: n.d.

Title: Circular. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dear Sir:-- At a late meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, Mass., the standing committee was directed, by a general vote of that body, to contract for the publication of the proceedings of the meeting. ...Cambridge, October 5, 1849
Identifier(s): text:1766; APSimg6401; Goodman Number: 4; 973 C683 No. 297
Description: Signed in type by Jeffries Wyman, Louis Agassiz, Benjamin Peirce, Charles H. Davis, Asa Gray, Henry D. Rogers, and E. N. Horsford, members of the committee requested to oversee publication of the proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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; Fund raising
Date: 1849

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: 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