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Title: Boston, November 1, 1838. In consequence of communications between members of the American Philosophical Society, in Philadelphia, and gentlemen in Boston, a meeting was held in the latter place, of gentlemen belonging to Boston, Salem, and the University at Cambridge...to form an institution to be called the American Institution for the Cultivation of Science, having for its object the advancement of physical science and literature
Identifier(s): text:1765; APSimg6389; Goodman Number: 8; 973 C683 No. 192
Description: Resolution concerning formation of the American Institution for the Cultivation of Science. Lists the following members of the committee of correspondence: John C. Warren, Judge [Joseph] Story, John Pickering, F. C. Gray, Daniel Treadwell, and Dr. [Enoch] Hale. Signed in type by John C. Warren, chairman of the committee.
Creator: American Institution for the Cultivation of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Resolutions
Date: 1838

Title: Dem Rector und Lehrer-Collegium des Gymnasiums zu Görlitz
Identifier(s): text:384; APSimg6518; Goodman Number: 39; 973 C683 No. 472
Description: Reproduces address delivered in honor of the three-hundreth anniversary of the gymnasium which indicates that the school has had a science-based curriculum since its inception during the Renaissance.; Oversized.
Creator: Oberlausitzische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Education; Schools; Science; Anniversaries
Date: 1865

Title: Discovery of viviparous fish in Louisiana. New Orleans, Nov. 1, 1854
Identifier(s): text:559; APSimg6645; Goodman Number: 220
Description: Reprinted from the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal.; Item call number: 590 Pam. v. 14, no. 2.
Creator: Dowler, Bennet, 1797-1879
Source: Zoological Pamphlet Collection (590 Pam. v. 14);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Fish
Date: 1854

Title: The subscriber has taken a laboratory, in which he proposes to perform analyses of the various ores, as those of iron, lead, copper, silver, gold, &c.; of the earths, as those of lime, clay, sand, &c.; and likewise the products of art. Instruction in the methods of analysis will also be communicated
Identifier(s): text:1781; APSimg6448; Goodman Number: 127; 973 C683 No. 184
Description: In addition to the instruction in chemistry Booth offered in another broadside (See Goodman #126, or 973 C683 no. 183), in this document, issued only one week later, he also advertises the ability to perform chemical analysis of ores, earths, and "the products of art." The following are listed as references: A. D. Bache, W. H. Keating, 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; Minerals; Dirt
Date: 1836

Title: Philadelphia, December 1857. Sir, I beg leave to transmit to you the copy of a resolution adopted by the American Association at its last meeting, and to invite your advice and guidance in the preparation of an appropriate report to that body. I have supposed that the several topics which such a report should embrace, may fitly arrange themselves under the following heads
Identifier(s): text:1769; APSimg6461; Goodman Number: 154; 973 C683 No. 630
Description: Autographed circular letter from J[ohn] K. Kane to Prof. J[ohn] F[ries] Frazer dated December 21, 1857. Lists six general topics which the committee on the coast survey of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is expected to investigate. Also gives a list of the twenty members appointed by the association to the committee: J[ohn] K. Kane, Joseph G. Totten, Benjamin Peirce, John Torrey, Joseph Henry, J. F. Frazer, Wm. Chauvenet, F. A. P. Barnard, John Le Conte, W. M. Gillespie, F. H. Smith, W. H. C. Bartlett, Walcott Gibbs, Stephen Alexander, Lewis R. Gibbes, Joseph Winbock, James Phillips, William Ferrel, Edward Hitchcock, and James D. Dana. Signed in type by Joseph Lovering, permanent secretary of the association.
Creator: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Organizations; Surveying
Date: 1857

Title: 1838. Observations made at London for 25 successive hours commencing at 6 a.m. of the 21st September, and ending 6 a.m. on the 22nd. London Clock Time. By Robert Carr Woods, Esq. Mem. Geog. Soc., Paris, Royal Acad. Sci. Lisbon, &c. &c.
Identifier(s): text:345; APSimg6541; Goodman Number: 178; 973 C683 No. 469
Description: Meteorological observations of London for a twenty-five hour period.
Creator: Woods, Robert Carr
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Weather; Clouds
Date: [1838]

Title: The substance of the two memoirs on the new characters to be used in chemistry, to elucidate the systematical synopsis arranged by W. Jackson
Identifier(s): text:360; APSimg6531; Goodman Number: 132; 973 C683 No. 356
Description: According to the text this work was extracted by Jackson from the "Register of the Royal Academy of Sciences" and published to accompany his synopsis (see Goodman #131). The two original memoirs by Adet and Hassenfratz were summarized and reviewed by Antoine Lavoisier, Claude-Louis Berthollet, and Antoine-François de Fourcroy in June 1787.
Creator: Jackson, William
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Symbols
Date: 1799

Title: Histoire naturelle économique et politique des poissons utilies; précédée de celle des morses, des phoques et des cétacées
Identifier(s): text:595; APSimg6612; Goodman Number: 229
Description: Prospectus for a work published as Histoire générale des pêches anciennes et modernes dans les mers et les fluves des duex continens (Paris, 1815). Noël de la Morinière's life-long study of fish, both from the viewpoint of their natural history and economic value, earned him the offices of inspector of navigation and inspector general of oceanic fishing in France.; Located in folder: Morniere to Thomas Jefferson. 1813 February 5.
Creator: Morinière, Noël de la, 1765-1822
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/a/apsmc.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Fish; Aquatic animals; Fishing industry
Date: 1812

Title: May 10, 1848. Sir: The Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, at its meeting in Boston, on the 24th of September, 1847, resolved itself into the American Association for the Promotion of Science, elected its officers as such, and appointed the time and place of the first meeting...to be in the city of Philadelphia, on the third Wednesday (20th) of September, 1848, at 10 o'clock, a.m. [Page 2:] List of Officers.
Identifier(s): text:1321; APSimg6402; Goodman Number: 6; 973 C683 No. 211
Description: Signed in type by Samuel George Morton, chairman of the local committee, and Walter R. Johnson, secretary.; Morton and Johnson's reason for referring to their society as the American Association for the Promotion of Science is not entirely clear, for Goodman #3 clearly points out that the American Association of Geologists and Naturalists was resolved into the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the name which the organization has clearly taken by 1849 (see Goodman #4). One possible explanation for the discrepancy might be that both names were proposed at the September 1847 meeting and neither clearly adopted. Alternately, the organization might have been at first known by the name used by Morton above and later change to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (in which case Goodman #3 would postdate this document).
Creator: American Association for the Promotion of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Science; Invitations
Date: 1848

Title: From the Utica Morning Herald, January 11, 1893. Local historians. Annual meeting of the Oneida Historical Society. Officers elected
Identifier(s): text:1026; APSimg6624; Goodman Number: 45
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. 29.
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; Judicial proceedings
Date: 1893

Title: Dr. Rees's New cyclopedia. Samuel F. Bradford is preparing to publish by subscription the New cyclopedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts and sciences, in twenty volumes quarto
Identifier(s): text:337; APSimg6734; Goodman Number: 102; 973 C683 No. 406
Description: Prospectus for an American edition of a new dictionary of arts and sciences based upon Chamber's Dictionary, also edited by Abraham Rees. Includes a lengthy list of contributors to the dictionary.; Oversized.
Creator: Rees, Abraham, 1743-1825
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Encyclopedias & dictionaries; Science
Date: n.d.

Title: M. Troyon informé, pendant son dernier séjour à Paris, que de fausses accusations portées sur son compte, par M. Adolphe Morlot, de Berne, ont été reproduites dans la Société impérial des Antiquaires de France et colportées dans plusieurs pays, croit devoir livrer à la publicité la lettre ci-après adressée le 28 août 1862
Identifier(s): text:533; APSimg6666; Goodman Number: 266
Description: Reproduces letter by J. Gay, vice president of the Commission des musées du canton de Vaud, in which Gay points out the falseness of several unnamed accusations made by Morlot regarding a recent excavation undertaken by Troyon.; Item call number: 571 P19, no. 7.
Creator: Troyon, Frédéric, 1815-1866
Source: Pamphlets relating to prehistoric archaeology (571 P19);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Archaeological sites; Archaeology
Date: 1862

Title: The Bulletin of the scientific laboratories of Denison University. Vol. I.
Identifier(s): text:138; APSimg6433; Goodman Number: 96; 973 C683 No. 609
Description: Prospectus for a periodical issued under the editorship of Herrick. Originally enclosed in a letter form Herrick to J. P. Lesley, February 17, 1886.
Creator: Herrick, C. L. (Clarence Luther), 1858-1904
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Science; Periodicals
Date: ca. 1866

Title: Amusement here with science is combin'd, to please, improve, and cultivate the mind
Identifier(s): text:137; APSimg6412; Goodman Number: 63; 973 C683 No. 164
Description: This broadside, apparently made up of parts clipped from a larger item and pasted together, is possibly an advertisement for Peale's Museum. Ill.: wood engraving by Lansing of eagle holding shield and arrows.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Galleries & museums; Advertisements
Date: n.d.

Title: Circular. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dear Sir:-- At a late meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, Mass., the standing committee was directed, by a general vote of that body, to contract for the publication of the proceedings of the meeting. ...Cambridge, October 5, 1849
Identifier(s): text:1766; APSimg6401; Goodman Number: 4; 973 C683 No. 297
Description: Signed in type by Jeffries Wyman, Louis Agassiz, Benjamin Peirce, Charles H. Davis, Asa Gray, Henry D. Rogers, and E. N. Horsford, members of the committee requested to oversee publication of the proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Creator: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Science; Fund raising
Date: 1849

Title: An account of some parhelia observed at Milford and Camden, Delaware, March 14th, 1841
Identifier(s): text:1084; local: APSimg6630; local: 113
Description: Relates accounts and reproduces drawings of a parhelia by A. Jackson of Camden, Delaware, David Straughn of Milford, Delaware, and Thomas Oliver of Philadelphia. Correlates the reports of stormy weather in Pennsylvania (from meteorological records kept at the Franklin Institute) with the appearance of the astronomical phenomena. Includes two illustrated figures of the parhelia.; Item call number: Pam. v. 139, no. 6.
Creator: Chaloner, A. Denman.et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Stargazing; Sun; Storms
Date: 1841

Title: North east entrance in Kensington Road. Admit the bearer to the ceremony of laying the first stone of the Hall of Arts & Sciences, Kensington Gore
Identifier(s): text:315; APSimg6515; Goodman Number: 349; 973 C683 No. 677
Description: Ticket to admit the bearer to the ceremony of laying the first stone of the Hall of Arts & Sciences, Kensington Gore.
Creator: Kensington Gore Hall of Arts and Sciences
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Miscellaneous; Broadside Subdivision: ; Building dedications; Educational facilities
Date: 1867

Title: North America. A working map for illustrating, by coloration, the geographical distribution of life. Prepared for the Boston Society of Natural History by William C. Cleveland
Identifier(s): text:1198; local: APSimg6652; local: 239
Description: On back of map is attached a circular letter from Samuel H. Scudder of the Boston Society of Natural History describing it as a sample of one the society is selling, "designed for marking, by pencil or water-colours, the limits of known distribution of a given species of animals or plants over the area delimited."; Item call number: Pam. v. 1218, no. 4.
Creator: Cleveland, William C.et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Geography; Maps; Natural history
Date: 1868

Title: Thomas Dobson, no. 41, South Second Street, Philadelphia, having happily completed the American edition of the Encyclopedia, in eighteen volumes, has been repeatedly urged, by many of his most zealous patrons of that work, to offer a proposal for publishing a supplement to the Encyclopedia; in which the mistakes of former volumes might be corrected, and some account given of the recent discoveries of greatest importance
Identifier(s): text:1603; APSimg6628; Goodman Number: 91
Description: According to the broadside, the supplement was to be based on the work of the Rev. George Gleig, the editor of the "last six volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica." Specifically mentions mechanics, chemistry, engines, machines, mills, watch and clock making, dynamics, astronomy, electricity, and magnetism as subjects areas to be brought up to date in the supplement.; Item call number: 308 Pam., no. 69
Creator: Dobson, Thomas, 1751-1823
Source: Pamphlet Collection (308 Pam.);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Encyclopedias & dictionaries; Science
Date: n.d.

Title: The analysis of a lecture upon the eidouranion; or astronomical lucernal, explaining the courses, distances, situations, magnitudes and motions of the heavenly bodies
Identifier(s): text:151; APSimg6439; Goodman Number: 110; 973 C683 No. 102
Description: Includes list of illustrations to be exhibited during the lecture. Manuscript note indicates that the broadside was presented to the American Philosophical Society by Thomas Stewardson, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, April 1897.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Public speaking; Stargazing
Date: n.d.