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Title: Table of constituent parts of earthy minerals (Call number: 549 C74)
Identifier(s): text:510; APSimg6751; Goodman Number: 142
Description: Includes over 150 minerals and gives per cent composition of silex, alumine, magnesia, "oxyd" of manganese, potash and water of each. Presented to the American Philosophical Society by the author, April 7, 1815. According to the document the names given to the minerals were "chiefly based on [Abraham Gottlob] Werner."; Extra oversized. Located in map cabinet.
Creator: Conrad, Solomon White, 1779-1831
Source: Printed Material; http://opac.amphilsoc.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=185118
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Minerals; Geology
Date: 1815

Title: Archean characters of the rocks of the Nucleal Ranges of the Antilles
Identifier(s): text:1106; local: APSimg6634; local: 148
Description: As noted on the broadside, "Read at the Bath meeting of the British Association, 1888."; Item call number: Pam. v. 382, no. 4.
Creator: Frazer, Persifor, 1844-1909et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Geology; Rocks
Date: ca. 1888

Title: On a specimen of quartz from Australia and three specimens of oligoclase from North Carolina exhibiting curious optical properties
Identifier(s): text:1107; local: APSimg6633; local: 147
Description: As noted on the broadside, "Read at the Bath meeting of the British Association, 1888." Frazer, minerologist, metallurgist, chemist, and son of the Philadelphia scientist, John F. Frazer, points out that George F. Kunz, gemmist for Tiffany and Company, and reporter of precious stones for the United States Geological Survey, requested him to call attention to these minerals.; Item call number: Pam. v. 382, no. 3.
Creator: Frazer, Persifor, 1844-1909et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Geology; Quartz; Minerals
Date: ca. 1888

Title: Geology of the Pacific and other regions visited by the U.S. Exploring Expedition under C. Wilkes, U. S. N., in the years 1838-1842, by James D. Dana, geologist of the expedition
Identifier(s): text:1115; local: APSimg6632; local: 144
Description: Prospectus for Dana's unofficial version of his geological report. The official government editions of the Wilkes Expedition reports were limited to 100 copies which led a number of authors to publish unofficial editions for wider distribution.; Item call number: Pam. v. 389, no. 11.
Creator: Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Geology; Discovery & exploration
Date: 1856

Title: Collections de roches et de petrifications par livraisons. Comptoir de Minéraux à Heidelberg. En decembre 1826 nous instruisimes le public de notre project de fourner par livraisons des collections de roches et de petrifications, à un prix moderé. ...nous nous sommes déterminé à annoncer une second édition des collections de roches et de pétrifications par livraisons
Identifier(s): text:1477; APSimg6460; Goodman Number: 153; 973 C683 No. 393
Description: An attempt by an enterprising mineral dealer from Heidelberg to sell entire rock collections in parts.
Creator: Heidelberger Mineralien-Comptoir
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Minerals; Selling
Date: [1832]

Title: Lectures on geology. By John Finch, F.B.S. Author of several geological essays
Identifier(s): text:240; APSimg6457; Goodman Number: 146; 973 C683 No. 574
Description: Proposal to offer a series of 12 lectures on geology, probably in Boston. Finch, a British geologist, traveled extensively in the eastern United States and Canada in the second and third decades of the nineteenth century, publishing articles on the geology of the areas he visited in American scientific journals. In 1833 he published a full account of his stay in America under the title Travels in the United States and Canada, containing some account of their scientific institutions, and a few notices of the geology and mineralogy of those countries (London, 1833).
Creator: Finch, John, Esq.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Geology; Public speaking
Date: [ca. 1830]

Title: Elementary treatise on mineralogy. Prospectus of a treatise on mineralogy; adapted to the present state of science; including important applications to the arts and manufactures
Identifier(s): text:258; APSimg6458; Goodman Number: 151; 973 C683 No. 419
Description: Elementary treatise on mineralogy. Prospectus of a treatise on mineralogy; adapted to the present state of science; including important applications to the arts and manufactures.; Godon's Elementary treatise was apparently never published.
Creator: Godon, S[ilvain] (ca. 1774-1840)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Minerals; Industry
Date: 1810

Title: Sammlungen von mineralien, petrefakten und krystall-modellen/ Collections de minéraux, de petrifications et modèles de cristaux
Identifier(s): text:250; APSimg6459; Goodman Number: 152; 973 C683 No. 392
Description: German and French in two columns. Advertises that samples sold are perfectly suited for teaching and study.; Torn along the left margin, making it difficult to read portions of the German text on the left half of the page.
Creator: Heidelberger Mineralien-Comptoir
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Industry; Minerals
Date: 1828

Title: Sur les gisements de cinq séries de gaz hydrocarbonés provenant des roches paléozoïques de l'Amérique du Nord;
Identifier(s): text:1149; local: APSimg6635; local: 149
Description: Descriptions of natural gas samples and the five localities in North America from which they were collected by Foucou.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1094, no. 14.
Creator: Foucou, Félix, b. 1831et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Natural gas; Geology
Date: 1868

Title: Scientific lecture. Prof. Edgerton of Michigan has the pleasure of announcing to the citizens of _____ that he will lecture on _____ evening _____ upon the following subjects
Identifier(s): text:386; APSimg6535; Goodman Number: 145; 973 C683 No. 519
Description: Edgerton was an itinerant lecturer who, from the list of topics given in this broadside, spoke primarily of the relationship between geology and Christianity from a catastrophist's point of view. In addition Edgerton also lectured on the "phenomenon and the philosophy of storms."
Creator: Edgerton, Professor
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Public speaking; Geology; Christianity; Storms
Date: ca. 1840?

Title: Syllabus of the lectures of Thomas Cooper, Esq. M.D. as professor of geology and mineralogy in the University of Pennsylvania
Identifier(s): text:600; APSimg6608; Goodman Number: 143
Description: Cooper, important as a dessiminator of scientific information and promoter of science in America, was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1815 to 1819 and is best known for the American editions he prepared for several English textbooks and his description of Joseph Priestley's scientific work (see Goodman #128).
Creator: Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839
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: Geology and Mineralogy; Geology; Minerals; Public speaking; Universities & colleges
Date: ca. 1815-1819

Title: [Ticket for] admittance to lectures on mineralogy, by S. Godon
Identifier(s): text:709; APSimg6574; Goodman Number: 150
Description: Ticket for lecture on mineralogy. Manuscript notation on ticket indicates that it was issued to Benjamin Smith Barton in 1809.
Creator: Godon, S[ilvain] (ca. 1774-1840)
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: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Minerals; Public speaking; Geology
Date: ca. 1809