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Title: The North American sylva, [missing line] of the forest trees, of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia, considered particularly, with respect to their uses in the arts and introduction in commerce. Including also the description and figures of the most useful European forest trees.
Identifier(s): text:1783; APSimg6470; Goodman Number: 197; 973 C683 No. 44
Description: Prospectus for an English-language version of Michaux's three volume work published in 1817. Michaux's North America sylva was first published in French (1810-13).
Creator: Michaux, François André, 1770-1855
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Botany; Forests; Trees
Date: 1817

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: Evening problems
Identifier(s): text:35; APSimg6636; Goodman Number: 157
Description: Twenty-four mathematical problems in algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. A chemist and natural philosopher, Patterson was professor at the University of Pennsylvania (1813-1820), the University of Virginia (1828-1835), and later director of the United States Mint.; Item call number: 510 Pam. xp, no. 5.
Creator: Patterson, Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854
Source: Robert Maskell Patterson Papers (510 Pam. xp);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Mathematics; Geometry; Education
Date: 1822

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 ?

Title: S'il es une enterprise qui puisse espérer de trouver une protection spéciale dans le sein des sociétés savantes
Identifier(s): text:596; APSimg6602; Goodman Number: 93
Description: Prospectus for periodical attempting to establish a regular international communication between "savans, l'industrie, et la librairie de diverses contrées civilisées." Signed in type: Le Directeur général du Bulletin universel des sciences et de l'industrie, with the autograph signature of Bar[on] de Férussac. Ferussac's Bulletin, as the work came to be popularly known, was published from 1824 to 1831.
Creator: Férussac, André-Etienne-Just-Pascal-Joseph-François d'Audebard, baron de, 1786-1836
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: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Natural history; International communication; Organizations
Date: 1824

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: Meteorological observations made at Springmill, 13 miles, NNW. of Philadelphia, 40°9' N. Month of December, 1787
Identifier(s): text:603; APSimg6610; Goodman Number: 169
Description: One of the regular monthly meteorological observation tables kept by Peter Legaux, a Frenchman who attempted to set up a vineyard outside of Philadelphia. Legaux's observations were widely disseminated in the Columbian Magazine and in the form of broadsides which may have been offprints from that publication.; See also Goodman #170, 171.
Creator: Legaux, Peter, 1748-1827
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (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
Date: 1787

Title: The comet. Elements of the orbit of the comet, now visible. 1811.
Identifier(s): text:609; APSimg6605; Goodman Number: 112
Description: Communication submitted by this largely self-taught astronomer and mathemetician is read before the American Philosophical Society on December 6, 1811. Cf. Minutes, p. 431.
Creator: Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838
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: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Comets; Eclipses; Stargazing
Date: 1811

Title: Scientific lectures! Chemistry. Professor Hindman, formerly prof. of natural sciences in West Winfield Seminary, assisted by Perley Ainsworth, artist, will deliver a lecture on chemistry
Identifier(s): text:230; APSimg6450; Goodman Number: 130
Description: Manuscript addition to broadside indicates that the lecture was to be given at the "School House--Sacketts Harbor, N.Y, on Thursday evening, Aug. 7, 1859."
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Public speaking
Date: 1859

Title: The subscriber, proposing to devote his time to instruction in the practical operations of chemistry, has taken a laboratory, in which he will give personal attention to such as are desirous of acquiring a knowledge of the science, as well as the manipulations necessary for extending such knowledge or for making scientific researches. ...Philadelphia, March 3, 1836.
Identifier(s): text:1778; APSimg6447; Goodman Number: 126; 973 C683 No. 183
Description: Booth, one of America's first "professional" consulting chemists, returned to Philadelphia from his studies abroad in 1836 to begin instruction on qualitative and quantitative analysis. Booth lists the following as references: A[lexander] D. Bache, F[ranklin] Bache, Dr. [George B.] Wood, Dr. [Robert E.] Griffith, and Henry Troth.
Creator: Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Education
Date: 1836

Title: Propostition faite aux amis des sciences et des arts. Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur l'Archiduc Charles, Généralissime, a daigné m'autoriser à entreprendre un voyage dans l'Orient; ce voyage doit avoir lieu vers la fin de novembre de l'année prochaine, et j'y serai accompagné des personnes, et muni des instrumens propres à en assurer le succès
Identifier(s): text:1775; APSimg6509; Goodman Number: 322; 973 C683 No. 303
Description: Manuscript date of December 20, 1806. Indicates that principle purpose of the visit is to obtain information on the natural history of the horse but that if possible questions posed by individuals on general natural history, geography, philology, technology, archaeology, and numismatics would also be answered.
Creator: Högelmüller, Georg Ritter von, 1770-1826
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Natural history; Horses; Travel
Date: 1806

Title: Newport, March 16, 1752. Notice is hereby given to the curious, that at the Court-House, in the Council-Chamber, is now to be exhibited, and continued from day to day, for a week or two; a course of experiments, on the newly-discovered electrical fire: containing; not only the most curious of those that have been published in Europe, but a considerable number of new ones lately made in Philadelphia; to be accompanied with methodical lectures on the nature and properties of that wonderful element
Identifier(s): text:1772; APSimg6453; Goodman Number: 140; 973 C683 No. 275
Description: Kinnersley, collaborator with Benjamin Franklin in his electrical studies, lectured on electricity and lightning in Philadelphia, Newport, New York, and elsewhere before accepting an appointment as professor of English at the College of Philadelphia in 1753.; Photocopy. Location of original source unknown.
Creator: Kinnersley, Ebenezer, 1711-1778
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Electricity; Electricity--Experiments; Fire; Public speaking
Date: 1752

Title: Report of a commission appointed to examine the triangulation of Mr. James Ferguson, assistant U.S. Coast Survey upon the coast of the United States, during the years, 1844-45. Coast Survey Office, Washington, March 1, 1847
Identifier(s): text:254; APSimg6462; Goodman Number: 155; 973 C683 No. 631
Description: Signed in type by Benjamin Peirce, Andrew Talcott, and Charles Davies. Reveals the commission decision that the "real character" of Mr. Ferguson's work was "defective and uncertain in results."
Creator: United States. Office of Coast Survey
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Coastlines; Surveying
Date: 1847

Title: Monthly meteorological table for the year 1820, embracing the whole extent of the United States of America and their territories. ...Monthly meteorological table for the year 1821, embracing the whole extent of the United States of America and their territories. ...Comparative table of meteorological observations, taken at several of the military posts in the United States, for the year 1821
Identifier(s): text:1788; APSimg6539; Goodman Number: 172; 973 C683 No. 310
Description: Monthly meteorological tables for the United States during the years 1820 and 1821.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology
Date: 1821

Title: Meteorological observations. 1789.
Identifier(s): text:683; APSimg6724; Goodman Number: 171
Description: Large meteorological chart which Legaux used to make his twice daily meteorological observations. Includes space for "Remarks on[:] vines and grapes, grain and trees, birds and insects, and births and deaths." Filled in for February 1789.; Oversized. See also Goodman #169-170.
Creator: Legaux, Peter, 1748-1827
Source: Peter Legaux Meteorological Notebook (Mss.551.5.L52);
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Weather
Date: 1789

Title: Detail de la grande éclipse de soleil qui doit arriver le 26 Octobre de cette présente année 1753. Calculée pour la Ville de Bordeaux suivant les nouvelles observations de Messieurs de l'Académie Royale des Sciences
Identifier(s): text:339; APSimg6528; Goodman Number: 115; 973 C683 No. 302
Description: Details of the grand solar eclipse of October 26, 1753. Includes calculations as to what times various portions of the sun will be blocked (measured in "doigts") during the eclipse and instructions for observing it without eye damage. Also includes an illustration of the eclipse.
Creator: Tamizey de Larroque, Philippe, 1828-1898
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Eclipses; Stargazing; Sun
Date: 1753

Title: Union encyclopédique pour la propagation des connaissances utiles, par la publication de l'Encylcopédie portative
Identifier(s): text:153; APSimg6425; Goodman Number: 90; 973 C683 No. 398
Description: Manuscript addition indicates that this prospectus and subscription form was sent "sous les auspices de M. Warden," undoubtedly David Bailie Warden (1772-1845), an American citizen who lived in France for over 40 years, serving first as a member of the staff of the America delegation there and when he left that post in 1814, as an unofficial liaison between the French scientific community and American scientists traveling abroad.
Creator: Bailly, C. (Charles), 1800-1862
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Encyclopedias & dictionaries; Science
Date: 1830

Title: ...The greatest number that can be expressed by three figures would...require a line many miles in length.... This greatest number is expressed by the algebraical notation thus, 9(99), or a number derived from a series of multiplications by 9, in which there are three hundred and eighty-seven million, four hundred and twenty thousand, four hundred and eighty-nine rows. Great as this number is, such improvements have been made in arithmetic within the few last centuries, that some of the first and last figures may be discovered.... December 11, 1831.
Identifier(s): text:1767; APSimg6463; Goodman Number: 158; 973 C683 No. 379
Description: Four-page excerpt from a text on mathematics.
Creator: W. F.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Mathematics
Date: 1831

Title: Weights & measures. Monies & coins [comparative chart]
Identifier(s): text:662; APSimg6673; Goodman Number: 343
Description: Comparative chart of weights and measures, monies and coins.
Creator: Cary, William, 1759-1825
Source: Thomas Court Scientific Instruments Collection (Mss.509.078.M582);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Miscellaneous; Broadside Subdivision: ; Weights & measures; Money; Coins
Date: 1815

Title: Synopsis of a course of lectures, on the osteology and paleontology, or the frame-work and fossils, of the class Mammalia.
Identifier(s): text:964; APSimg6727; Goodman Number: 209
Description: Advertises a series of twelve lectures to be offered by this distinguished British anatomist and paleontologist who had become the superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum only one year before this document was issued. According to this broadsheet Owen's lecture was to be devoted almost entirely to fossil mammals.; Item call number: B Ow2.1 no. 22.
Creator: Owen, Richard, 1804-1892
Source: Sir Richard Owen Papers (Mss.B.Ow2);
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Natural history; Paleontology; Fossils; Mammals
Date: 1857