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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Table showing the behavior of certain minerals with citric acid alone, and with reagents
Identifier(s): text:252; APSimg6446; Goodman Number: 125; 973 C683 No. 171
Description: Gives the results of the combination of 200 "species" of minerals with citric acid alone and with the addition of NaNo3 and KI.; Those interested in the details of the methods used in the experiments are referred to the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. I, pp. 1 and 153.
Creator: Bolton, Henry Carrington, 1843-1903
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Minerals
Date: 1880

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: 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: [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