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Title: Important to naturalists, scientific institutions, &c. ...Just published, price one guinea to subscribers--thirty shillings to non-subscribers, The natural history of the order Cetacea, and the oceanic inhabitants of the Arctic regions.
Identifier(s): text:320; APSimg6481; Goodman Number: 219; 973 C683 No. 160
Description: Advertisement for a work published in 1834 by this London physician and naturalist. Originally enclosed in a letter (APS Archives; March 19, 1835) from the Verulam Philosophical Society of London of which Dewhurst was the president.
Creator: Dewhurst, H. W. (Henry William)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Marine biology; Arctic regions
Date: [ca. 1835]

Title: City Museum. Callowhill Street, below Fifth. Another great bill. [List of attractions]
Identifier(s): text:371; APSimg6521; Goodman Number: 66; 973 C683 No. 520
Description: The many attractions advertised in the broadside include: a magnetic ship and magnetic batteries; natural history specimens, all "scientifically prepared and arranged"; an Indian cabinet; a collection of paintings and statues; as well as song, dance, drama, and a show by Tom Thumb. Lists Ashton & Company as the proprietors of the museum, M. W. Dickeson as professor of natural sciences, W[illia]m T.W. Dickeson as curator, John E. McDonough as stage manager, and J. J. Egan as scenic artist. Ill.: facade of the museum.
Creator: City Museum of Philadelphia
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Natural history; Galleries & museums; Theatrical productions
Date: 1854

Title: The great work of Professor Agassiz. Contributions to the natural history of the United States, by Louis Agassiz. In ten volumes, quarto.... Extracts from the prospectus
Identifier(s): text:546; APSimg6650; Goodman Number: 234
Description: Prospectus for the publication of Agassiz's work on the natural history of the United States of which only 4 volumes of the proposed 10 were published between 1857 and 1862. According to Agassiz's biographer, Edward Lurie, the work was too complex for the general public and too descriptive for the increasing number of naturalists interested in the more theoretical notions proposed in works like those of Charles Darwin. Reproduces notices from several Boston newspapers and the National Intelligencer (Washington).; Item call number: 590 Pam. 28b.
Creator: Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Source: Zoological Pamphlet Collection (590 Pam.);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Natural history; Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873; Zoology
Date: 1855

Title: Paris, ce __ juin 1782. M. _____[,] J'ai l'honneur de vous prévenir que je viens de recevoir la seconde livraison des Oeuvres complettes de M. Charles Bonnet...
Identifier(s): text:783; APSimg6683; Goodman Number: 244
Description: Contains autograph signature of Hardouin. Two years previous to the above document Hardouin sent a letter to Benjamin Franklin desiring to know if he was interested in subscribing to the works of Charles Bonnet (see B:F85:vol.14:no.152).; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, no. 71.
Creator: Hardouin
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: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Natural history; Books
Date: 1782

Title: 13 Exchange Street, Boston, April 4, 1874. The accompanying article, "In the laboratory with Agassiz," appears in Every Saturday of April 4, 1874, and by the kind permission of the author and publisher is placed at the disposal of the Agassiz Memorial Committee.
Identifier(s): text:1776; APSimg6486; Goodman Number: 236; 973 C683 No. 644
Description: The introduction is signed in type by Ja[me]s M. Barnard, treasurer of the fund. Samuel H. Scudder's anecdotal account of his first contact with Agassiz.
Creator: Agassiz Memorial Committtee
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873; Natural history; Zoology; Fish
Date: 1874

Title: Great Alachua - Savana, East Florida
Identifier(s): graphics:853; APSimg1446; Negative Number: 661.016
Description: Oversized.
Creator: Bartram, William, 1739-1823
Source: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B284d-ead.xml
Subject: Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Bartram, William, 1739-1823; Maps; Florida--Description and travel; Discovery & exploration
Date: 1766?

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Training a New Generation of Biologists: The Genome-Enabled Field Biologist
Identifier(s): video:1027; 2009_11_013
Description: Dr. Baldwin talks about biology training programs and the split between ecology departments and biology departments.
Subject: History of Science; Ecological genetics; Flowers, Nectar; Genes; Chemical ecology; Metabolites; Transcriptional regulatory elements; Natural history; Phenotypic traits; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2009-11-13

Title: Professor Agassiz's lectures. Prof. Agassiz proposes to deliver a course of lectures in Philadelphia, similar to the one just completed by him before the Lowell Institute
Identifier(s): text:822; APSimg6746; Goodman Number: 232
Description: According to the broadside the series of lectures was to be similar to one just completed by Agassiz at the Lowell Institute whose object was "to explain the successive creation of the several divisions of the animal kingdom." Only one year after this lecture series Agassiz returned to America to become professor of zoology and geology at the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard. Lists the following among the 35 members of the lecture committee: J[ohn] K. Kane, R[obert] M. Patterson, Robert Hare, S[amuel] G. Morton, C[harles] D. Meigs, T[homas] D. Mutter, and J[ohn F.] Frazer.; Item call number: B F865.a, no. 17.
Creator: Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Source: John Fries Frazer Papers (Mss.B.F865);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873; Natural history; Creation; Public speaking; Animals
Date: ca. 1846?

Title: Dr. Barton's edition of the whole works of St. Pierre.
Identifier(s): text:696; APSimg6577; Goodman Number: 237
Description: Prospectus for a three volume work published in 1808. Contains a handwritten note on reverse, dated 1810 June 1, concerning specimens that Barton had received from Mr. Yard.
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: Miscellaneous; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737-1814
Date: n.d.

Title: Skeleton of the mammoth is now to be seen at the museum, in a separate room. For admittance to which, 50 cents; to the museum, as usual, 25 cents
Identifier(s): text:365; APSimg6733; Goodman Number: 71; 973 C683 No. 583
Description: Apparently issued in conjunction with the opening of the "mammoth room" in Peale's Museum, December 24, 1801. Peale exhumed his fossilized specimen from marl pits in New York with financial aid (in the form of a no-interest loan) from the American Philosophical Society.
Creator: Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Natural history; Mammoths; Fossils; Paleontology
Date: ca. 1801

Title: Rules and orders of the Linnean Society
Identifier(s): text:698; APSimg6564; Goodman Number: 28
Description: Note at bottom of the document indicates that the society "will consider themselves highly indebted" to anyone sending "dissertations, specimens, books, drawings, or other communications; particularly such as tend to illustrate the natural history of Great Britain and Ireland; addressed to Dr. [James Edward] Smith." Smith, one of the three founders of the Linnean Society, served as its president for forty years.
Creator: Linnean Society of London
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; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778; Organizational rules
Date: ca. 1788-1795

Title: Nachricht. Bey dem heut zu Tage immer mehr geschäzten Studium der Botanik
Identifier(s): text:699; APSimg6569; Goodman Number: 204
Description: Prospectus for Sturm's Deutchlands Flora in Abbilbungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen ansündige published in 1798.
Creator: Sturm, Jakob, 1771-1848
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: Botany and Horticulture; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Botany
Date: 1796

Title: Gentlemen, I thank you for the honor you do me in the favor of this visit; and I will endeavor to explain to you in as few words as possible, my design in forming this museum, and the motive which induced me to request you, gentlemen, to take on yourselves the trouble of becoming visitors and directors of it
Identifier(s): text:1749; APSimg6523; Goodman Number: 70; 973 C683 No. 358
Description: Describes purpose and present state of Peale's Museum. Peale's attempt to create a public institution of his museum began with the creation of a board of "visitors" or trustees who were to initially provide advice and financial support, and later completely oversee the museum's operation. Signed in type by Charles Willson Peale.
Creator: Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Natural history; Specimens; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778
Date: 1792

Title: To the public. The subscriber, intending to publish as account of his voyage from Charleston (S.C.) to the coast of Africa, and his travels when there, hereby solicits subscriptions
Identifier(s): text:693; APSimg6563; Goodman Number: 320
Description: Prospectus for a work published in 1797. Letter on reverse is from J. L. to [Benjamin Smith Barton], April 27, 1797. Signed in type by Joseph Hawkins.
Creator: Hawkins, Joseph, b. 1772
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: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Discovery & exploration; Ocean travel
Date: 1796