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Title: Washington, D.C.[,] March 18, 1863. Sir, Replies have been received to my circular letter of March 5th from more than three- fifths of the members of the National Academy of Sciences
Identifier(s): text:996; APSimg6615; Goodman Number: 34
Description: Circular letter sent to J. P. Lesley from Senator Henry Wilson announcing that the first meeting of the National Academy of Sciences will take place in New York, Wednesday, April 22nd, 1863.; See also Goodman #33. Located in folder: 1863 Mar 18. Henry Wilson to J. P. Lesley.
Creator: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Source: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; National Academy of Sciences (U.S.); Sciences; Organizations
Date: 1863

Title: Circular. The trustees of the Philadelphia Museum avail themselves of the occasion of a change of their location, which the intended sale of the arcade renders inevitable
Identifier(s): text:139; APSimg6417; Goodman Number: 73; 973 C683 No. 95
Description: Attempt by the trustees of the museum to raise money for the erection of a new building to house Peale's Museum. Faced with recurring financial difficulties, the museum had been formerly incorporated in 1821 under the name of the Philadelphia Museum Company. The new building referred to in the broadside was finally erected in 1838.
Creator: Philadelphia Museum
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Peale’s Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Fund raising
Date: ca. 1835

Title: United States Senate[,] March 5, 1863. Sir, A bill to incorporate the "National Academy of Sciences" has been introduced by me in the Senate, and, having passed through the several stages of legislation, has now become a law under which you are one of the corporators
Identifier(s): text:1013; APSimg6614; Goodman Number: 33
Description: Circular letter from Senator Henry Wilson announcing passage of legislation incorporating the National Academy of Sciences and requesting the best date for the letter's recipient, named as one of the corporators of the academy, to join in a meeting of the newly-formed body. Sent by Wilson to J. P. Lesley, March 5, 1863 and signed by Wilson.; Located in folder: 1863 Mar 5. Henry Wilson to J. P. Lesley.
Creator: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Source: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; National Academy of Sciences (U.S.); Sciences; Organizations
Date: 1863

Title: From the Utica Morning Herald, February 11, 1891. Oneida Historical Society. The monthly meeting held yesterday-- mastodon's teeth and Indian relics
Identifier(s): text:1025; APSimg6620; Goodman Number: 41
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. 26.
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; Mastodons; Antiquities; Indians of North America
Date: 1891

Title: Scientia in bello pax. The United States Military Philosophical Society instituted for the purpose of improving and disseminating military science...have elected _____ a member thereof
Identifier(s): text:1751; APSimg6739; Goodman Number: 60; 973 C683 No. 369
Description: Membership certificate filled in for John Vaughan. Illustrated broadside, including numerous symbols of military science and warfare. The United States Military Philosophical Society held its last recorded meeting November 1, 1813. For more information on the Society, see also Sidney Forman, "The United States Military Philosophical Society, 1802-1813." William and Mary Quarterly. 3rd ser., vol. 2, no. 3 (July 1945): 273-285.; Extra oversized.
Creator: United States Military Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Military organizations; Military art & science; Vaughan, John, 1755-1841
Date: ca. 1803-1810

Title: To the public. ...Conditions...upon which said annual [Magellanic] premiums will be awarded. ...Published by order of the society, at Philadelphia, the 19th day of November, 1786
Identifier(s): text:994; APSimg6748; Goodman Number: 10
Description: Signed in type by James Hutchinson, Robert Patterson, Samuel Magaw, and John Foulke, secretaries of the American Philosophical Society. Originally enclosed in letter from Samuel Vaughan to [Jean] Hermann, professor of medicine at the University of Strasbourg, March 20, 1788. The Magellanic premium was begun in 1786 with a 200-guinea donation from John Hyacinth Magellan, a Portuguese member of the Royal Society, and was awarded periodically to "the author of the best discovery, or most useful improvement relating to navigation, astronomy or natural philosophy, mere natural history only excepted."; Located in folder: 1788 March 20. Samuel Vaughan to Professor Hermann.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Awards; Astronomy; Navigation; Physics
Date: 1786

Title: M. ______[,] Vous êtes prié d'honorer de votre présence, jeudi 30 du présent mois d'avril, le rendez-vous de la République des Lettres et des Arts...
Identifier(s): text:784; APSimg6674; Goodman Number: 51
Description: Circular in French inviting the recipient to attend a meeting of the Republic of the Letters and the Arts. Originally enclosed with a letter from Pahin-Champlain de la Blancherie to Benjamin Franklin, January 20, 1779 (see B:F85:vol.40:no.168).; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, No. 38
Creator: République des Lettres et des Arts
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: Societies; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Learning and scholarship; Organizations
Date: 1779

Title: Valuable real estate. Philadelphia Museum. Peremptory sale
Identifier(s): text:845; APSimg6707; Goodman Number: 79
Description: Faced with severe financial difficulties, the board of trustees of the Philadelphia Museum (more popularly known as Peale's Museum) was forced to sell the building it had erected in 1838 (see Goodman #73: 973 C683, no. 95). On August 5, 1841, Robert Patterson, acting on behalf of the American Philosophical Society, tendered the winning bid for the structure, the society having decided to sell its Philosophical Hall on Independence Square to the city of Philadelphia and move to the relatively new building which had been constructed for the Philadlephia Museum. Negotiations with the city fell through, however, and the Philadelphia Museum was given a temporary reprieve from its financial obligations, while the American Philosophical Society was forced to remain in its original home.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Wolbert, C. J. & Company, Auctioneers
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: Museums and Menageries; American Philosophical Society; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Auctions
Date: 1841

Title: Scientia in bello pax. The United States Military Philosophical Society instituted for the purpose of improving and disseminating military science...have elected _____ a member thereof
Identifier(s): text:302; APSimg6739; Goodman Number: 60; 973 C683 No. 369
Description: Membership certificate filled in for John Vaughan. Illustrated broadside, including numerous symbols of military science and warfare. The United States Military Philosophical Society held its last recorded meeting November 1, 1813. For more information on the Society, see also Sidney Forman, "The United States Military Philosophical Society, 1802-1813." William and Mary Quarterly. 3rd ser., vol. 2, no. 3 (July 1945): 273-285.; Extra oversized.
Creator: United States Military Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Military organizations; Military art & science; Vaughan, John, 1755-1841
Date: ca. 1803-1810

Title: [Fragment missing] and real estate. C. J. Wolbert & Co. invite attention to their sale which will take place on Thursday evening next[,] the 5th August, 1841
Identifier(s): text:130; APSimg6419; Goodman Number: 80; 973 C683 No. 187
Description: Advertisement for an auction. Item number seven to be auctioned is the Philadelphia Museum (see also Goodman #79).
Creator: Wolbert, C. J. & Company, Auctioneers
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Auctions; Peale’s Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1841

Title: Premiums. The American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge, in order the more effectually to answer the ends of their institution, have agreed to appropriate, annually, a part of their funds to be disposed of in premiums to the authors of the best performances, inventions, or improvements, relative to certain specific subjects of useful knowledge. The following premiums, therefore, are now proposed by the society.
Identifier(s): text:1770; APSimg6516; Goodman Number: 11; 973 C683 No. 251
Description: Includes information on seven premiums offered by the society for the best entries in the following categories: system of liberal education, method for computing longitude by lunar observation, improvement of a ship's pump, improvement of stoves, method of preventing premature decay of peach trees, experimental treatise on vegetable dyes, and improvement of lamps. Also includes a notice of the conditions of the Magellanic premium. Note at base of this broadside requests printers of "newspapers and other periodical publications, in the United States and in Europe" to "republish the above information." Signed in type by W[illiam] Barton and John Bleakley, secretaries of the American Philosophical Society.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Awards; Education; Longitude; Inventions
Date: 1796

Title: Circular. At a meeting of the aid committee of the trustees of the fund for a fire-proof building for the American Philosophical Society, it was resolved...
Identifier(s): text:610; APSimg6599; Goodman Number: 17
Description: Subscription aimed at raising money for a larger, fire-proof building for the society. Committee included Franklin Peale, John C. Cresson, Robert Cornelius, Henry Winsor, Edward Hartshornes, and Thomas P. James.
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; Fund raising; Organizations' facilities
Date: ca. 1867

Title: City Museum. Callowhill Street, below Fifth. Another great bill. [List of attractions]
Identifier(s): text:371; APSimg6521; Goodman Number: 66; 973 C683 No. 520
Description: The many attractions advertised in the broadside include: a magnetic ship and magnetic batteries; natural history specimens, all "scientifically prepared and arranged"; an Indian cabinet; a collection of paintings and statues; as well as song, dance, drama, and a show by Tom Thumb. Lists Ashton & Company as the proprietors of the museum, M. W. Dickeson as professor of natural sciences, W[illia]m T.W. Dickeson as curator, John E. McDonough as stage manager, and J. J. Egan as scenic artist. Ill.: facade of the museum.
Creator: City Museum of Philadelphia
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Natural history; Galleries & museums; Theatrical productions
Date: 1854

Title: 1858. [List of] stated meetings [and] ...stated business [for the year]. ...Officiating secretaries and curators
Identifier(s): text:842; APSimg6711; Goodman Number: 15
Description: Calendar of meetings for the American Philsophical Society for the year 1858.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: American Philosophical 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; American Philosophical Society--Meetings; American Philosophical Society
Date: 1858

Title: Resolution to be considered at the meeting of the American Philosophical Society, to be held on the 3d of March, 1815
Identifier(s): text:703; APSimg6576; Goodman Number: 14
Description: Proposed resolution repealing the twelfth fundamental law of the society thereby reducing the number of classes under which it was organized from six to four, including: physical and mathematical class; class of useful arts and improvements; historical, statistical, and economical class; and philological and literary class.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
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; American Philosophical Society; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Organizational rules
Date: 1815

Title: The officers and counsellrs [sic] of the American Philosophical Society, hold a stated meeting at their hall tomorrow evening at __ o'clock
Identifier(s): text:700; APSimg6575; Goodman Number: 13
Description: Manuscript date of June 25, 1812. Manuscript addition instructs the recipient, B[enjamin] S. Barton, to "please bring the tribute to the memory of J[ohn] B[ayard] S[mith]."
Creator: American Philosophical Society
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; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; American Philosophical Society--Meetings
Date: 180_

Title: The classes for the different branches of education will be opened, the ensuing session, as follows.... Edinburgh College, September 12, 1810
Identifier(s): text:705; APSimg6579; Goodman Number: 86
Description: Among others, this broadside lists classes, scheduled meeting times, and instructors in medicine and botany. Signed in type by Andrew Duncan, junior secretary of the college.
Creator: University of Edinburgh
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: Education; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Universities & colleges; Teaching; Sciences
Date: 1810

Title: Proxy. I hereby constitute _____ to be my attorney, to deliberate and vote for me at a meeting of the stockholders of the Philadelphia Museum Company.... September _____, 1836.
Identifier(s): text:146; APSimg6418; Goodman Number: 74; 973 C683 No. 603
Description: A blank legal form for creating a proxy for a meeting of the stockholders of the Philadelphia Museum Company.
Creator: Philadelphia Museum
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Galleries & museums; Meetings; Voting; Peale’s Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1836

Title: Monsieur, La Commission centrale de la Société de Géographie a décidé dans sa séance du 22 septembre 1836, qu'il serait formé au
Identifier(s): text:604; APSimg6732; Goodman Number: 78
Description: Received by the American Philosophical Society on November 1, 1836. Circular letter containing the autograph signature of Roux de Rochelle, president of the Central Commission. Proposes the construction of a geographical museum where objects of natural history, art, and antiquity can be housed.; Located in folder: Rec'd 1836 November 1.
Creator: Société de géographie (France)
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: Museums and Menageries; Galleries & museums; Geography; Natural history
Date: [1836]

Title: From the Utica Herald, January 27, 1891. Oneida Historical Society. Standing committees appointed--relics to be sent to the World's Fair
Identifier(s): text:1019; APSimg6619; Goodman Number: 40
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. 25.
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; Antiquities; Exhibitions; Indians of North America
Date: 1891