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Title: Constitution of the Paterson Philosophical Society
Identifier(s): text:321; APSimg6519; Goodman Number: 48; 973 C683 No. 604
Description: Constitution of the Paterson Philosophical Society.Lists fifteen articles of the constitution of the society, organized January 15, 1827 and disbanded by December 1839. Signed in type by A. H. Freeman.
Creator: Paterson Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Natural history; Organizations; Organizational rules
Date: 1827

Title: Programme of organization of the Smithsonian Institution. (Presented to the Board of Regents, Dec. 8, 1847.)
Identifier(s): text:832; APSimg6710; Goodman Number: 57
Description: Includes an introduction giving "general considerations which should serve as a guide in adopting a plan of organization," as well as "details of the plan to increase knowledge," "details of the plan for diffusing knowledge," and "plan of organization...providing for the two modes of increasing and diffusing knowledge."; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Smithsonian Institution
Source: Elisha Kent Kane Papers. Printed Material. (Mss.B.K132.p); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.K132.p-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Smithsonian Institution; Organizational rules; Natural history
Date: 1847

Title: Circular. At the last meeting of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, it was resolved...that the scope of the society should be extended, so as to embrace, henceforth...the advancement of all the departments of positive knowledge.... Objects and rules of the association...called the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Identifier(s): text:1752; APSimg6400; Goodman Number: 3; 973 C683 No. 681
Description: Signed in type by Henry D. Rogers, Benjamin Peirce, and Louis Agassiz, members of a committee appointed to alter the constitution and rules of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists.; See also Goodman #6.
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; Organizational rules
Date: ca. 1847?

Title: Resolution to be considered at the meeting of the American Philosophical Society, to be held on the 3d of March, 1815
Identifier(s): text:703; APSimg6576; Goodman Number: 14
Description: Proposed resolution repealing the twelfth fundamental law of the society thereby reducing the number of classes under which it was organized from six to four, including: physical and mathematical class; class of useful arts and improvements; historical, statistical, and economical class; and philological and literary class.
Creator: American Philosophical 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; American Philosophical Society; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Organizational rules
Date: 1815

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