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Title: Aliquot rudimenta philosophiae sive pauca introductoria compendia, technologiae, logicae, rhetoricae et physicae
Identifier(s): text:304339
Subject: Evans, David, 1681-1751; Natural theology -- Early works to 1800; Rhetoric -- Early work to 1800; Physics -- Early work to 1800; Natural history; Education
Date: 1747

Title: Peale's Museum, in the State House, Philadelphia. Admittance 25 cents.
Identifier(s): text:701; APSimg6581; Goodman Number: 72
Description: Broadside describing the layout of Peale's Museum and the collections, animals, and specimens within.
Creator: Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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: Museums and Menageries; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Galleries & museums
Date: 1813

Title: Proposals for printing by subscription, on a fine paper, with a new and elegant American letter, cast by John Baine & Co. Travels through North and South-Carolina, Georgia, East and West-Florida.... By William Bartram, botanist, of Philadelphia, who was employed from 1773 to 1777, by the celebrated Doctor Fothergill, of London, to explore the extensive countries above-mentioned.
Identifier(s): text:1764; APSimg6507; Goodman Number: 316; 973 C683 No. 122
Description: Includes extract of Travels describing the Alachua Savannah in East Florida. See also Goodman #315.
Creator: Bartram, William, 1739-1823
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Bartram, William, 1739-1823; Natural history; Discovery & exploration; Indians of North America--Social life and customs.
Date: ca. 1790

Title: A catalogue of botanical, gardening, & agricultural books for sale by Bernard M'Mahon, seedsman, no. 129, Chesnut-Street, Philadelphia
Identifier(s): text:710; APSimg6568; Goodman Number: 196
Description: M'Mahon, author of American gardener's calendar which was republished in eleven editions, was entrusted by Thomas Jefferson with the seeds brought back from the Lewis and Clark Expedition.; A fragment, equaling approximately one-half of the original broadside.
Creator: M’Mahon, Bernard, 1775?-1816
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; Bookselling; Botany; Horticulture
Date: n.d.

Title: Philadelphia, _____ 18__. Sir, It is in conformity with the directions of the Philadelphia Linnean Society, and in their behalf, that we have now the honor of addressing you
Identifier(s): text:711; APSimg6565; Goodman Number: 49
Description: Circular letter, sent to Benjamin Smith Barton on May 18, 1809, requesting the receiver to communicate the results of their natural history observations to the society. Indicates that the society is especially interested in specimens of plants and minerals. Autograph signatures of Sam[uel] Hazard, Sam[uel] Belton, and Sam[ue]l Colhoun, members of the correspondence committee of the Philadelphia Linnean Society.
Creator: Philadelphia Linnean Society
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; Linnean Society of Philadelphia; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778; Specimens
Date: ca. 1809

Title: Proposals, for printing by subscription, in one volume octavo; Travels, through North and South-Carolina, Georgia, and Florida
Identifier(s): text:779; APSimg6689; Goodman Number: 315
Description: Prospectus for Bartram's Travels originally enclosed in a letter from Enoch Story, Jr. to Benjamin Franklin in which the Philadelphia printer sought permission to dedicate the volume to the venerable Franklin and requested that he use his influence to see that the work "not perish for want of encouragement" (see F:85:vol.41:no.201). Though Story did not come to publish Travels, the work did appear five years later from the presses of James and Johnson (see Goodman #316).; Hays reference #: Vol. 76, no. 36. Oversized.
Creator: Bartram, William, 1739-1823
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: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Bartram, William, 1739-1823; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Discovery & exploration; Natural history; Indians of North America
Date: 1786

Title: University of Pennsylvania lecture tickets; Tickets (U. of Pa. Lectures)
Identifier(s): text:333670
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Materia medica; Medicine; Medical education; Lectures and lecturing; Natural history; Botany; Science; University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: 1812-11-03; 2019

Title: To the citizen[s] of the United States of America. Mr. Peale respectfully informs the public, that having formed a design to establish a museum, for a collection, arrangement and preservation of the objects of natural history and things useful and curious.... Philadelphia, February 1, 1790.
Identifier(s): text:1434; local: APSimg6416; local: 69
Description: Requests donation of specimens. Upper left and right-hand corners of broadsides missing. Signed in type by Charles Willson Peale.
Creator: Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)et al
Subject: 973 C683 No. 158; Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Galleries & museums; Natural history; Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1790

Title: Notes on patients and experimental use of roots; Patients and experimental use of roots
Identifier(s): text:333167
Subject: Medicine--Study and teaching--History--19th century; Medicine--Practice--History--18th century; Natural history -- 18th century; Medicine, Experimental; Medicine--Research; Roots (Botany); University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: 1792-1793; 2019

Title: Letters to Caspar Wistar, 1794-1893
Identifier(s): text:280565
Subject: Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818; American Philosophical Society; Botany; Medicine -- 19th century; Natural history; Yellow fever; Paleontology -- 19th century; Michaux, Francois André, 1770-1855; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Brown, Samuel, 1769-1830; Camper, Adriaan Gilles, 1759-1820; Correia da Serra, José Francisco, 1750-1823; Cuvier, Georges, Baron, 1769-1832; Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823; Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831; Palisot de Beauvois, Ambrose-Marie-François-Joseph, 1752-1820; Raffeneau-Delile, Alire, 1778-1850; Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb; Warden, David Bailie (1772-1845)
Date: 1794-1893