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Title: Plan de souscription, pour le graphometre universel, nouvel instrument mathématique, de l'invention du Sr. A. G. Eckhardt, membre de la Société Royale de Londres
Identifier(s): text:782; APSimg6687; Goodman Number: 299
Description: A machine to "mesure & dessine généralement tous les objets visibles." Also advertises two volumes of plates, the drawings of which were made as samples of the various uses to which the "graphometre" might be applied.; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, no. 76. Oversized.
Creator: Eckhardt, Antoine George, ca. 1740-ca. 1810
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: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Scientific apparatus; Mathematics
Date: n.d.

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: 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 right ascension and declination of ß bootes adapted to the beginning of the year, 1787
Identifier(s): text:790; APSimg6680; Goodman Number: 116
Description: Manuscript notation at top: "For His Excellency B. Franklin Esqr." Ellicott indicates that ß bootes "may be advantageously used in determining latitude" in the United States. Also includes notation that sector constructed by [David] Rittenhouse was used by Ellicott to make his observations.; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, no. 46.
Creator: Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820
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: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Astronomy; Constellations; Stargazing
Date: ca. 1787

Title: To the learned and judicious. [Page 4:] Proposals for printing, by subscription, An easy introduction to the Latin language, adapted to the comprehension of beginners
Identifier(s): text:791; APSimg6685; Goodman Number: 277
Description: Prospectus announcing the creation of a work on the study of Latin for beginners, to be written by the Rev. W. Nixon. Includes specimens of grammar, vocabulary, and translation, in addition to a testimonial of Nixon's work Prosody Made Easy.; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, no. 74.
Creator: Nixon, William
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: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Language; Linguistics; Education
Date: n.d.

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: 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: 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: A catalogue of books written by Dr. Joseph Priestley
Identifier(s): text:297; APSimg6529; Goodman Number: 128; 973 C683 No. 21
Description: In addition to listing 108 works authored by Priestley, this broadside also advertises that the autobiographical Memoirs of Doctor Joseph Priestley to the year 1795 (with a continuation to the time of his death by his son) is in the press, as well as Observations on his life by Thomas Cooper and William Christie. The two works were published by Binns as a single volume in 1806.; Oversized. One of the three copies of this broadside is annotated with the publication dates of Priestley's works.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804; Chemistry; Liberty; Religion
Date: ca. 1806

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: History of the Indian tribes of North America. With biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs. Embellished with 120 portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War at Washington.
Identifier(s): text:380; APSimg6501; Goodman Number: 292; 973 C683 No. 399
Description: Prospectus for a work published in 1838-44. Includes recommendation from Jared Sparks. McKenney was an administrator of Indian affairs for the United States government. Hall was a lawyer, banker, and author who wrote primarily of pioneer life in Illinois and the Ohio Valley.
Creator: McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859 Hall, James, 1793-1868; McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859 Hall, James, 1793-1868
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Indians of North America; Tribal chiefs
Date: 1830

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: Redemptoris typo. Tentamina de electricitate. ...Exercitium istud quod sibi dedicari concessit, présentiâ suâ nobiltabit D. Benjamin Franklin, bene meritorum de electricitate physicorum princeps in Mazarinaeo
Identifier(s): text:787; APSimg6681; Goodman Number: 136
Description: Document announces the defense of a thesis by Louis-Hilaire Fagnan concerning the properties of electricity. Dr. Benjamin Franklin will be present, because the exercise is dedicated to him. See also more complete description with broadside. Includes illustration of Abraham and Isaac.; Hays reference #: Vol. 76, no. 38. Oversized.
Creator: Dumay, Julianus-Maria
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: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Electricity; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Electricity; Public speaking
Date: [1779]

Title: M'Carty & Davis,...Philadelphia, propose publishing by subscription, an original work, entitled, A narrative of the mission of the United Brethen, amongst the Delaware and Mohegan Indians, from its commencement, in the year 1740, to its close, in the year 1808
Identifier(s): text:1753; APSimg6498; Goodman Number: 289; 973 C683 No. 485
Description: Includes recommendation by Peter S. Du Ponceau and Roberts Vaux indicating that the work is "replete with valuable information respecting the Indians; their history, manners, customs." Heckewelder was a Moravian missionary who after withdrawing from active mission work among the Indians of Ohio was pursuaded by Caspar Wistar to record some of the knowledge he had acquired.
Creator: Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Missions; Indians of North America--Social life and customs.
Date: 1819

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: Sir William Jones
Identifier(s): text:358; APSimg6495; Goodman Number: 279; 973 C683 No. 301
Description: Biographical sketch of this famed Oriental scholar. Includes an illustration.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Jones, William, Sir, 1746-1794; Linguistics
Date: n.d.

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: Jubilee of the Right Honorable Professor Lord Kelvin
Identifier(s): text:594; APSimg6752; Goodman Number: 185
Description: Invitation sent to the secretary of the "Philosophical Society, Philadelphia." Signed in type by John Caird, principal and vice-chancellor of the University, and James Bell, Lord Provost of Glasgow.; Oversized.
Creator: University of Glasgow
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: Miscellaneous; Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907; Anniversaries; Universities & colleges
Date: 1896