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Title: Tillkånna gifves att...Peter Jonas Bergius, dog i Stockholm. den 10 Julii 1790
Identifier(s): text:235; APSimg6474; Goodman Number: 205; 973 C683 No. 221
Description: Notification of death of famous Swedish physician and botanist. Includes list of the scientific societies of which Bergius was a member. Read at APS meeting January 24, 1791.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Bergius, Peter Jonas, 1730-1790; Announcements
Date: 1790

Title: To be seen at _____ an extraordinary animal, supposed to be a ranging tiger or cougar; it was caught in the town of Sidney, and is allowed by those gentlemen who have seen it, to be one of the most surprising animals ever seen in this part of the country
Identifier(s): text:1597; APSimg6648; Goodman Number: 230
Description: Small broadside advertising the exhibition of an unidentified large, wild cat.; Item call number: 308 Pam., no. 105.
Source: Pamphlet Collection (308 Pam.);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Wild cats; Animal shows
Date: n.d.

Title: A catalogue of garden-seeds, fruit-trees, flower-roots, and choice plants, sold by Powell and Eddie, seedsmen, at the King's Head, near Fetter-lane, in Holbourn, London
Identifier(s): text:334; APSimg6737; Goodman Number: 201; 973 C683 No. 235
Description: A list of seeds, herbs, and flowers available for sale.; Oversized.
Creator: Powell and Eddie
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Herbs; Flowers; Trees
Date: n.d.

Title: The following letter furnished for the minutes by Mr. Price, will explain the history of the purchase of oaks in Europe
Identifier(s): text:1131; local: APSimg6642; local: 199
Description: Reproduces letter sent by John C. Cresson, chief engineer of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, to Eli K. Price, chairman of the committee on nurseries, regarding the purchase of oaks in Europe for the Michaux Grove and Nursery in Fairmount Park.; Item call number: Pam. v. 951, no. 5.
Creator: Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.). Office of the Chief Engineeret al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.); Oaks; Horticulture
Date: 1874

Title: Professor Agassiz proposes to publish the principal results of his investigations of the natural history of the United States
Identifier(s): text:547; APSimg6653; Goodman Number: 245
Description: Cover letter recommending a forthcoming publication by Agassiz, see Goodman #234 (590 Pam. no. 28b) for the prospectus which this letter probably accompanied.; Item call number: 590 Pam. no. 28c.
Creator: Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878
Source: Zoological Pamphlet Collection (590 Pam.);
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Natural history; Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873; Zoology
Date: 1855

Title: Important to naturalists, scientific institutions, &c. ...Just published, price one guinea to subscribers--thirty shillings to non-subscribers, The natural history of the order Cetacea, and the oceanic inhabitants of the Arctic regions.
Identifier(s): text:320; APSimg6481; Goodman Number: 219; 973 C683 No. 160
Description: Advertisement for a work published in 1834 by this London physician and naturalist. Originally enclosed in a letter (APS Archives; March 19, 1835) from the Verulam Philosophical Society of London of which Dewhurst was the president.
Creator: Dewhurst, H. W. (Henry William)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Marine biology; Arctic regions
Date: [ca. 1835]

Title: The great work of Professor Agassiz. Contributions to the natural history of the United States, by Louis Agassiz. In ten volumes, quarto.... Extracts from the prospectus
Identifier(s): text:546; APSimg6650; Goodman Number: 234
Description: Prospectus for the publication of Agassiz's work on the natural history of the United States of which only 4 volumes of the proposed 10 were published between 1857 and 1862. According to Agassiz's biographer, Edward Lurie, the work was too complex for the general public and too descriptive for the increasing number of naturalists interested in the more theoretical notions proposed in works like those of Charles Darwin. Reproduces notices from several Boston newspapers and the National Intelligencer (Washington).; Item call number: 590 Pam. 28b.
Creator: Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Source: Zoological Pamphlet Collection (590 Pam.);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Natural history; Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873; Zoology
Date: 1855

Title: Paris, ce __ juin 1782. M. _____[,] J'ai l'honneur de vous prévenir que je viens de recevoir la seconde livraison des Oeuvres complettes de M. Charles Bonnet...
Identifier(s): text:783; APSimg6683; Goodman Number: 244
Description: Contains autograph signature of Hardouin. Two years previous to the above document Hardouin sent a letter to Benjamin Franklin desiring to know if he was interested in subscribing to the works of Charles Bonnet (see B:F85:vol.14:no.152).; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, no. 71.
Creator: Hardouin
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: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Natural history; Books
Date: 1782

Title: Camellia Place, Spruce Street, west of Broad, Philadelphia. The proprietor of this establishment offers for sale 20,000 Camellia japonicas, of all sizes, embracing the newest kinds in cultivation
Identifier(s): text:843; APSimg6721; Goodman Number: 195
Description: Lists 128 varieties of camellias for sale. According to this broadside, Mackenzie's nursery contained over 20,000 camellias and 10,000 roses.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Mackenzie, Peter
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: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Nurseries (Horticulture); Plants; Roses
Date: 1847

Title: 13 Exchange Street, Boston, April 4, 1874. The accompanying article, "In the laboratory with Agassiz," appears in Every Saturday of April 4, 1874, and by the kind permission of the author and publisher is placed at the disposal of the Agassiz Memorial Committee.
Identifier(s): text:1776; APSimg6486; Goodman Number: 236; 973 C683 No. 644
Description: The introduction is signed in type by Ja[me]s M. Barnard, treasurer of the fund. Samuel H. Scudder's anecdotal account of his first contact with Agassiz.
Creator: Agassiz Memorial Committtee
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873; Natural history; Zoology; Fish
Date: 1874

Title: premiers cahiers d'un ouvrage botanique d'origine Batave, publié récemment sous le titre de Flora Batava, o Représentation & des
Identifier(s): text:593; APSimg6726; Goodman Number: 198
Description: Manuscript date of October 2, 1801. Autograph signature of Johannes Goldberg, minister of political economy of the Batavia Republic. Prospectus the first three volumes of a series to be entitled, Flora Batava, or Representation & Description of the Batavian Plants.; Located in folder: 1801 October 2, Batavian Republic to APS.
Creator: Ministre d'Économie Politique de la Republique Batave
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: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Natural history; Botany; Plants
Date: ca. 1801

Title: A short account of the behemoth or mammoth
Identifier(s): text:64; APSimg1717; Goodman Number: 210; 973 C683 No. 279
Description: Rembrandt and Rubens Peale, sons of Charles Willson Peale, noted Philadelphia artist and museum proprietor, took one of two skeletons which they and their father had exhumed in New York (see broadside #583) for a European exhibition tour lasting a little over one year (1802-03). In an effort to obtain the funds necessary for their trip across the Atlantic, the two brothers first exhibited the fossilized creature in New York, an exhibit for which this broadside was issued.
Creator: Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Natural history; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Mammoths; Exhibitions; Paleontology
Date: 1802

Title: Proposals for printing, by subscription, Elements of zoology or outlines of the natural history of animals. ...Conditions, &c.
Identifier(s): text:704; APSimg6562; Goodman Number: 216
Description: This work, originally intended as companion volume to Barton's popular Elements of botany (1803), was apparently never published under this title. A work of wider scope, A discourse on some of the prinicipal desiderata in natural history, based on a lecture given by Barton to the Phildelphia Linnaean Society on June 1807, was published less than a year after this broadside was issued and probably utilized material meant for Elements of zoology. Manuscript list of some of the subscribers, including Rubens Peale of Peale's Museum in Philadelphia, is appended to the document.
Creator: Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
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: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Animals; Zoology
Date: 1806

Title: Registry of periodical phenomena. 185-
Identifier(s): text:679; APSimg6692; Goodman Number: 249
Description: Includes space for recording desired first appearance of phenomena of nearly 100 species of plants. Page 3 requests information on specific reptiles, fish, insects, and "general phenomena of climate." Page 4 requests specimens on microscopic animals and gives instructions for obtaining the same.
Creator: Smithsonian Institution
Source: Michael Jacobs Meteorological Notebook (Mss.551.5.J12);
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Natural history; Animals; Bird watching; Plants
Date: 185_

Title: Hitcham horticultural show. Programme for July 12th, 1854
Identifier(s): text:768; APSimg6697; Goodman Number: 193
Description: Broadside advertising a horticultural show. The document also indicates that exhibits from the "animal" and "mineral" kingdoms will be shown.
Source: Thomas Campbell Eyton Papers (Mss.B.Ey83);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Horticulture; Natural history; Animals; Minerals
Date: 1854

Title: Funeral of Mr. Darwin, Westminster Abbey. April 26th, 1882, order of procession
Identifier(s): text:736; APSimg6729; Goodman Number: 243
Description: Order of procession for Darwin's funeral. For other related funeral documents see Goodman #241-242; 252.; Item call number: B D25.120
Source: An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.D25-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882; Funeral rites & ceremonies
Date: 1882

Title: Professor Agassiz's lectures. Prof. Agassiz proposes to deliver a course of lectures in Philadelphia, similar to the one just completed by him before the Lowell Institute
Identifier(s): text:822; APSimg6746; Goodman Number: 232
Description: According to the broadside the series of lectures was to be similar to one just completed by Agassiz at the Lowell Institute whose object was "to explain the successive creation of the several divisions of the animal kingdom." Only one year after this lecture series Agassiz returned to America to become professor of zoology and geology at the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard. Lists the following among the 35 members of the lecture committee: J[ohn] K. Kane, R[obert] M. Patterson, Robert Hare, S[amuel] G. Morton, C[harles] D. Meigs, T[homas] D. Mutter, and J[ohn F.] Frazer.; Item call number: B F865.a, no. 17.
Creator: Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Source: John Fries Frazer Papers (Mss.B.F865);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873; Natural history; Creation; Public speaking; Animals
Date: ca. 1846?

Title: Dr. Barton's edition of the whole works of St. Pierre.
Identifier(s): text:696; APSimg6577; Goodman Number: 237
Description: Prospectus for a three volume work published in 1808. Contains a handwritten note on reverse, dated 1810 June 1, concerning specimens that Barton had received from Mr. Yard.
Creator: Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
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: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737-1814
Date: n.d.

Title: Nachricht. Bey dem heut zu Tage immer mehr geschäzten Studium der Botanik
Identifier(s): text:699; APSimg6569; Goodman Number: 204
Description: Prospectus for Sturm's Deutchlands Flora in Abbilbungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen ansündige published in 1798.
Creator: Sturm, Jakob, 1771-1848
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: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Botany
Date: 1796

Title: University of Pennsylvania. A course of lectures on materia medica. by Benjamin Smith Barton
Identifier(s): text:702; APSimg6582
Description: Ticket for admission. Initialed by Barton. Immediately after returning from medical studies abroad in 1789, Barton became professor of natural history and botany at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1795 also assumed the responsibilities of the materia medica chair.; For similar tickets to other lectures offered by him, see Goodman #187, 188, 238.
Creator: Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
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: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Medicine; Medical education; Public speaking
Date: n.d.