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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: 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: Third circular of the committee, relating to the contemplated meeting to commence on the first Monday of April 1844. To which are added certain proceedings of the board of management of the institute.
Identifier(s): text:145; APSimg6408; Goodman Number: 35; 973 C683 No. 713
Description: Discusses plans for the first annual meeting of the National Institute as well as its scope and general goals. Includes minutes of the board of management, December 23, 1843, and copies of circulars issued by the board on October 15, 1842 and February 24, 1843. Lists the following as members of the committee: Joseph C. Spencer, Joseph R. Ingersoll, Robert J. Walker, W[illia]m C. Rives, Rufus Choate, W[illia]m C. Preston, Abbott Lawrence, and Alexander Dallas Bache. Signed in type by Joseph P. Ingersoll.; Top portion of sheet partially destroyed.
Creator: National Institute for the Promotion of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Meetings; Organizations; Science
Date: 1844

Title: From the Utica Morning Herald, April 12, 1892. Oneida Historians[.] Listen to an address on "The Oneida Institute." Dr. Smith Baker the speaker at the monthly meeting of the society- -business transacted
Identifier(s): text:1024; APSimg6622; Goodman Number: 43
Description: Incomplete, one-page expcerpt of a 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. 27.
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; Seminaries
Date: 1892

Title: Maison d'éducation et école de mathématiques, sous l'autorité & la jurisdiction de Monsieur le Chantre de l'Église de Paris...[et] sous la direction de M. Arnauld
Identifier(s): text:780; APSimg6676; Goodman Number: 82
Description: Advertisement for a House of Education and School of Mathematics under the direction of Mr. Arnauld, promising a distinguished education in a vast house with a good environment. Originally enclosed with letter from Arnauld to Benjamin Franklin, November 26, 1782 (see B:F85:vol.26:no.72).; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, no. 86.
Creator: Arnauld
Source: Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Education; Mathematics
Date: 1782

Title: Tickets of admission to Zoological Garden, Philadelphia
Identifier(s): text:148; APSimg6420; Goodman Number: 81; 973 C683 No. 707
Description: Three different tickets of admission for the Zoological Garden, Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Zoological Society was incorporated in 1859 and its Zoological Garden opened in 1874, making it among the first permanent zoos in the United States.
Creator: Zoological Society of Philadelphia
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Tickets; Zoos
Date: n.d.

Title: Philadelphia Meeting, 1884. Sir:-- I have the honor to inform you that at a recent meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia, you were elected a member of the local committee for the reception of the British and American Associations for the Advancement of Science, who will meet in this city in September, 1884
Identifier(s): text:1761; APSimg 6388; Goodman Number: 5; 973 C683 No. 643
Description: Form letter signed in type by Joseph Leidy, chairman of the local committee and H. Carvill Lewis, secretary.
Creator: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Membership campaigns; Organizations
Date: 1884

Title: Liste des membres qui composent la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice. 1er[.] septembre 1836
Identifier(s): text:136; APSimg6410; Goodman Number: 58; 973 C683 No. 377
Description: Last page of document lists rules and gives a short history of the society.
Creator: Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Natural history
Date: 1836

Title: Rooms of the Amer. Philosophical Soc.[,] Philadelphia, _____ 1863. To the secretary of the _____[.] Sir: You will please find at the rooms of the _____ a package of our publications
Identifier(s): text:76; APSimg6390; Goodman Number: 16; 973 C683 No. 496
Description: Blank form concerning the shipment of APS publications. Signed in type by J. Peter Lesley, librarian and junior secretary.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Forms (Documents); Organizations
Date: 1863

Title: The American Philosophical Society...requests the honor of Mr. _____ company at the St. George Hotel on Monday, March 15 1880 at 5 p.m. at a dinner to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the society
Identifier(s): text:75; APSimg6392; Goodman Number: 19; 973 C683 No. 614
Description: Invitation to a dinner to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the American Philosophical Society. Signed in type by William A. Ingham, J. Sergeant Price and Henry Phillips, Jr.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Invitations; Organizations
Date: 1880

Title: Circular. The American Geographical and Statistical Society, formed in October 1851...asks for the co-operation of professional and mercantile men, in the assurance that its aims are worthy of their notice. The following are the officers of the society elected Feb. 21, 1852
Identifier(s): text:858; APSimg6714; Goodman Number: 7
Description: Lists the following officers: George Bancroft, president; Henry Grinnell, Francis L. Hawks, and John C. Zimmerman, vice presidents; Charles Congdon, treasurer; M. Dudley Bean, S. De Witt Bloodgood, and Archibald Russell, secretaries; and Joshua Leavitt, librarian. Also lists the ten members of the executive committee of the society.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: American Geographical and Statistical Society
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; Organizations; Membership campaigns; Geography; Stats
Date: 1852

Title: Royal Menagerie, Exeter 'Change, Strand, revived and improved by S. Polito, the first emporium of living curiosities in the known world; is now classically divided into three different apartments, in a most substantial, clean, and beautiful order
Identifier(s): text:350; APSimg6524; Goodman Number: 75; 973 C683 No. 742
Description: Begun by Gilbert Pidcock in the last decades of the eighteenth century, the Royal Menagerie at Exeter Change was purchased in 1810 by S. Polito, an experienced traveling menagerist. Both Pidcock and his successor successfully promoted their enterprise through enthusiastic advertising in the form of newspaper ads, handbills, and broadsides such as the one above.
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: 1816

Title: Academia Scientiarium Imperialis L: S: Academiam Petri Magni auspiciis.... Datum ex Academia Scientiarum M: Januar: D: 14 A: 1726. [Saint Petersburg]: Typis mandatum Typographia Petropolitana
Identifier(s): text:65; APSimg6387; Goodman Number: 2; 973 C683 No. 531
Description: Announcement in Latin of the first series of lectures to be given at the college of the academy by the following: Daniel Bernoulli, Theophilus Sigefrid Bayer, Nicolaus Bernoulli, Christianus Martini, J. C. Buxbaum, Jacobus Hermannus, J. Peter Kohl, J. Simon Beckenstein, Michael Burger, Johannes Georgius Du Vernoy, Georgius Bernhardus Bulffinger, C. F. Gross, F. C. Majer, and Joseph-Nicolaus Delilse. Also gives instructors in the gymansium.
Creator: Académie impériale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Announcements; Public speaking; Natural history
Date: 1726

Title: Les chaires à l'Université Impériale de Vilna que l'assemblée générale de professeurs tenue le 18. julliet 1803 a declarées vacantes pour ètre publiées, sont...
Identifier(s): text:154; APSimg6422; Goodman Number: 85; 973 C683 No. 282
Description: Advertises vacancies in physics, natural history, agriculture, mathematics, clinical medicine, and veterinary medicine.
Creator: Université Impériale de Vilna
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Science; Universities & colleges
Date: 1803

Title: Sujets de prix, proposés par l'Académie...pour l'année 1782.... [Page 2:] Pour l'année 1783. ...A Lyon, le 5 septembre 1780
Identifier(s): text:63; APSimg6386; Goodman Number: 1; 973 C683 No. 207
Description: Gives details of two prizes proposed and funded by Abbé Guillame-Thomas-François Raynal. The first, to be awarded in 1782, offers 600 livres for the best entry relating to the prosperity of manufacturing in Lyon. The second, to be awarded in 1783,offers 1200 livres for the best entry discussing the beneficial and detrimental effects of the discovery of America. Signed in type by [Marc-Antoine-Louis Claret de Fleurieu de] La Tourrette, perpetual secretary of the academy.
Creator: Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Awards; Organizations; Discovery & exploration; Industry
Date: 1780

Title: A living whale! And monstrous living crocodile. In a communication to the Boston Journal, Professor Agassiz gives the following description of the white whale.... [Page 2:] Catalogue. ...Boston, June 3, 1861.
Identifier(s): text:135; APSimg6414; Goodman Number: 65; 973 C683 No. 706
Description: Reprints a letter describing a specimen of white whale by Louis Agassiz which was originally printed in the Boston Journal. Issued only one year after broadside #480, Cutting and Butler had increased the size of their establishment to include 47 tanks of fish and other aquatic animals and 17 cages of terrestrial 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; Whales
Date: 1861

Title: Tableau du Cercle des Philadelphes, Établi au Cap-François avec l'approbation du Roi, le 15 août 1784
Identifier(s): text:117; APSimg6406; Goodman Number: 26; 973 C683 No. 190
Description: Lists the 89 members of this short-lived scientific society and classifies them according to the various membership categories. Among the members given are two Americans, Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
Creator: Cercle des Philadelphes
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations
Date: 1787

Title: Circular. Providence, R. I.[,] Nov. 1, 1830. At an adjourned meeting of the board of trustees of the Rhode-Island Historical Society, holden [sic] October 25, 1830, the subject of the early history of our country being under consideration, and the board being deeply impressed with the importance of procuring every authentic paper and document relative thereto, that it is in our power to obtain...
Identifier(s): text:1307; APSimg6398; Goodman Number: 52; 973 C683 No. 619
Description: An attempt to gather support for the passage of an act in Congress which would authorize the U. S. Government to obtain records relating to the early settlement of America in the possession of the British government. Signed in type by Usher Parsons, W. R. Staples, and Thomas H. Webb, members of the library committee of the society.
Creator: Rhode Island Historical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Circulars; Records (Information); Colonies
Date: 1830

Title: Sir[,] The Royal Society have receiv'd your present of _____ and I am directed to return you their thanks for the same
Identifier(s): text:695; APSimg6567; Goodman Number: 56
Description: All three copies sent from Royal Society to Benjamin Smith Barton on the following dates: December 7, 1797, February 1, 1798, and April 17, 1799. All contain autograph signature of Charles Peter Layard, secretary of the Royal Society. In them Barton is thanked for sending the following: "Collection for an essay towards a materia medica of the United States," "Papers relative to certain American antiquities," and "New views of the origin of the tribes and nations of America." 3 copies.
Creator: Royal Society (Great Britain)
Source: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B284d-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Organizations
Date: ca. 1797-1799