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Title: Monsieur, Le Musée de Paris ayant transporté ses séances au local de M. [Jean-François] Pilatre de Rozier....A l'hôtel du Musée de Paris...le 28 août 1783
Identifier(s): text:85; APSimg6396; Goodman Number: 32; 973 C683 No. 570
Description: Sent to Benjamin Franklin while he was in Passy, France. Manuscript signature of [Jean-François] Cailhava [d'Estendoux], president of the society.
Creator: Musée de Paris
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Galleries & museums; Invitations
Date: 1783

Title: Directions for using the compound achromatic microscope manufactured by A. Abraham, 20, Lord Street, Liverpool, and Abraham and Dancer, 13, Cross Street, King Street, Manchester
Identifier(s): text:661; APSimg6668; Goodman Number: 294
Description: Directions for using a compound achromatic microscope. Includes illustatrion of microscope and accessories.
Creator: Abraham, A.
Source: Thomas Court Scientific Instruments Collection (Mss.509.078.M582);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Microscopes; Scientific equipment
Date: n.d.

Title: Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A., July 21, 1880. Sir: It is with deep regret that I am obliged to inform you of the death of Count Louis François de Pourtalès, the keeper of this museum
Identifier(s): text:143; APSimg6415; Goodman Number: 67; 973 C683 No. 656
Description: Black-bordered notification of the death of this Swiss naturalist who came to the United States in 1846 and became the keeper of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard from 1873 until his death.
Creator: Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Announcements; Galleries & museums; Death
Date: 1880

Title: Directions for taking care of the cochineal insects while at sea / Soins a observer pour la Conservation des Insects Cochenille a bord des Vaisseaux Sur Mer
Identifier(s): text:1191; local: APSimg6643; local: 213
Description: Detailed instructions on shipping this economically valuable insect to the "settlements in India." In English and French.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1198, no. 5.
Creator: Anderson, James, 1739-1808et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Insects; Dyeing; Ocean travel
Date: 1789

Title: Meteorological observations made at the apartments of the Albany Institute, Albany Academy, for thirty-seven successive hours, commencing six a.m. of the twenty-first of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six--ending six p.m. of the following day.
Identifier(s): text:1754; APSimg6465; Goodman Number: 163; 973 C683 No. 307
Description: Observations on the 21st and 22nd of March, June[,] September and December, are made by the South African Literary and Philosophical Institution, the Royal Society of London, the Albany Institute, John S. M'Cord, Esq. of Montreal, and Professor [Benjamin F.] Joslin of Union College, Schenectady. Includes account of instruments used and procedures followed in making the observations. Signed in type by M. H. Webster and Philip Ten Eyck of the committee on meteorology.
Creator: Albany Institute
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Weather
Date: 1836

Title: Tableau des grossissemens obtenus par la combinaison des oculaires et de systèmes achromatiques avec une distance visuelle de 250 millimèters
Identifier(s): text:665; APSimg6671; Goodman Number: 310
Description: Table partially filled-in with manuscript notes, detailing enlargements obtained by the combination of microscopic eyepieces and achromatic systems from a distance of 250 millimeters. From an early Oberhauer microscope.
Source: Thomas Court Scientific Instruments Collection (Mss.509.078.M582);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Microscopes; Scientific equipment
Date: [ca. 1835]

Title: (From the Utica Morning Herald, Jan. 13, 1872 [sic; should be 1892?].) Historical. Annual Meeting of the Oneida Society. Reports presented and officers elected--an able address by S. N. D. North of Boston on "The evolution of the factory system."
Identifier(s): text:1021; APSimg6621; Goodman Number: 42
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. 20.
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; Factories; Capitalism; Industrialization
Date: 1892?

Title: Baradelle L'ainé, ingénieur en instrumens de mathematique et de phisique
Identifier(s): text:304; APSimg6503; Goodman Number: 295; 973 C683 No. 556
Description: Advertising card for a French maker and seller of mathematical, scientific, navigational, and nautical instruments.
Creator: Baradelle L'ainé
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Scientific equipment; Navigational equipment
Date: n.d.

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: Annual Election of Officers and Councilors, 1896...[Obverse] Officers for 1896
Identifier(s): text:116; APSimg6404; Goodman Number: 20; 973 C683 No. 610
Description: Stated meetings of the officers and council [and]...society [as well as the]...stated business of the meeting. ...Officiating secretaries and curators. [Obverse side:] Officers for 1896. [and]...standing committees.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Organizations
Date: 1896

Title: Astronomical exhibition. Or, amusement and science combined. Charles Pritchard, will deliver, before such of the ladies and gentlemen of this place as may be pleased to honor him with their company, a lecture on astronomy--attended with an interesting exhibition, calculated to amuse and afford instruction, on a new plan, intended to expand the mind in a knowledge of the Creator's works
Identifier(s): text:1426; APSimg6442; Goodman Number: 120; 973 C683 No. 486
Description: Pritchard claims to exhibit over 50 astronomical figures during his lecture. However, despite its title, the exhibition was also scheduled to include a "splendid collection of wild beasts" and several allegorical paintings. Page 2 contains recommendations from persons residing in the eastern United States.
Creator: Pritchard, Charles
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Public speaking
Date: [ca. 1824]

Title: Evolution; or, the extracting of just roots out of all powers, by one universal rule, as easy as common division
Identifier(s): text:348; APSimg6536; Goodman Number: 159; 973 C683 No. 247
Description: A mathematical broadside examining evolution, or, the extracting of just roots out of all powers.; Portions of the broadside are missing.
Creator: Falck, N. D. (Nikolai Detlef), 1736-1783
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Mathematics
Date: n.d.

Title: "The field is the world." London, May 18, 1860
Identifier(s): text:142; APSimg6411; Goodman Number: 61; 973 C683 No. 591
Description: List of resolutions of the Universal Scientific Conference Includes a "list of [20] names annexed to the programme printed in Edinburgh, Feb. 1860, continued." Signed in type by G. Dibley, secretary, pro tempore.
Creator: Universal Scientific Congress
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Meetings; Organizations; Resolutions
Date: 1860

Title: A concise abstract of the contents of a cabinet of British organic remains, more particularly of Tertiary fossil shells...selected from their respective localities, during a period of twenty-five years, by Richard C. Taylor, Fellow of the Geological Society of London.... It is chiefly in consideration of the great risk attending its removal to its present residence, west of the Alleghanies, that, after a year's deliberation, he has determined to offer it for sale in Philadelphia
Identifier(s): text:1455; APSimg6476; Goodman Number: 211; 973 C683 No. 78
Description: Advertises the sale and lists the contents of fossil collection of this British geologist and mining engineer who immigrated to the United States in 1830. After his arrival to America Taylor became involved in economic geology of Pennsylvania, and his reputation for competency soon won him assignments from as far away as Cuba and Panama. In 1848 Taylor's Statistics of coal was published to highly favorable reviews.
Creator: Taylor, Richard C. (Richard Cowling), 1789-1851
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Fossils; Shells
Date: n.d.

Title: Ladies and gentlemen of London are most respectfully informed that Master Geo. Bidder, aged twelve years and a half...will exhibit his astounding powers to any parties
Identifier(s): text:975; APSimg6695; Goodman Number: 335
Description: Handbill advertising the services of Master George Bidder and his "mental powers of calculation."; See also Goodman #334.
Creator: Bidder, George Parker, 1806-1878
Source: Sir James Paget Letters (Mss.B.P212);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: "Pseudo Science"; Broadside Subdivision: ; Pseudo science; Mathematics; Entertainment
Date: [ca. 1819]

Title: Resolutions in reference to daylight saving adopted by the American Philosophical Society
Identifier(s): text:87; APSimg6393; Goodman Number: 21; 973 C683 No. 612
Description: Resolutions in reference to daylight saving adopted by the American Philosophical Society. Urges enactment of U. S. House Bill No. 2609 and Senate Bill No. 1854, both daylight savings bills.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Resolutions
Date: n.d.

Title: Constitution of the Paterson Philosophical Society
Identifier(s): text:321; APSimg6519; Goodman Number: 48; 973 C683 No. 604
Description: Constitution of the Paterson Philosophical Society.Lists fifteen articles of the constitution of the society, organized January 15, 1827 and disbanded by December 1839. Signed in type by A. H. Freeman.
Creator: Paterson Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Natural history; Organizations; Organizational rules
Date: 1827

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: Popular lectures on natural history, ...as lecture committees repeatedly ask for notices of the press regarding the lectures of Professor Morse, the following are selected from hundreds
Identifier(s): text:584; APSimg6647; Goodman Number: 228a
Description: Numerous newspaper testimonials attesting to Morse's skill as a lecturer of natural history. After studying conchology under Louis Agassiz at the Lawrence Scientific School, Morse went on to become an active zoologist, popular lecturer, and beginning in 1880, director of the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts. Includes testimonial in German. See also Goodman #228 (973 C683, no. 497).; Item call number: 920 Pam., no. 349.
Creator: Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925
Source: Pamphlet Collection (920 Pam.);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Public speaking; Zoology
Date: n.d.

Title: (From the Utica Morning Herald, April 13, 1892). Oneida Historical Society. Business session held yesterday afternoon--a paper by General C. W. Darling on "Pre-historic archaeology of America" read last evening
Identifier(s): text:1020; APSimg6623; Goodman Number: 44
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. 28.
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; Archaeological sites; Antiquities
Date: 1892