- "Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy" (x)
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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