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Title: The next stated meeting will be at 7 o'clock, on Friday evening. (Chair taken at 8 o'clock,) October 2, 1874
Identifier(s): text:74; APSimg6391; Goodman Number: 18; 973 C683 No. 628
Description: Meeting notification card. An album in the APS Archives contains 67 similarly sized and worded notification cards for meetings held between January 5, 1866 and January 7, 1870.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Invitations; Organizations
Date: 1874

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: This is to certify that _____ of _____ was this __ day of _____ 18__, admitted and sworn to the freedom of the above named Company
Identifier(s): text:663; APSimg6672; Goodman Number: 313
Description: Certificate of membership for the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, London, which includes the seal and oath of the organization.
Creator: Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers (Great Britain)
Source: Thomas Court Scientific Instruments Collection (Mss.509.078.M582);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Eyeglasses; Organizations; Optical industry
Date: [18__]

Title: Natural History Society. Founded May 6, 1869. [List of] officers,...executive committee, [and]...members [for 1890]
Identifier(s): text:340; APSimg6517; Goodman Number: 37; 973 C683 No. 258
Description: Reproduced in the 1955 Christmas greeting card of Anna Allen and Albert Hazen Wright. Facsimile. Includes and illustration of an animal border surrounding the list of officers.
Creator: Natural History Society of Cornell
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Natural history; Organizations
Date: 1890

Title: Boston, November 1, 1838. In consequence of communications between members of the American Philosophical Society, in Philadelphia, and gentlemen in Boston, a meeting was held in the latter place, of gentlemen belonging to Boston, Salem, and the University at Cambridge...to form an institution to be called the American Institution for the Cultivation of Science, having for its object the advancement of physical science and literature
Identifier(s): text:1765; APSimg6389; Goodman Number: 8; 973 C683 No. 192
Description: Resolution concerning formation of the American Institution for the Cultivation of Science. Lists the following members of the committee of correspondence: John C. Warren, Judge [Joseph] Story, John Pickering, F. C. Gray, Daniel Treadwell, and Dr. [Enoch] Hale. Signed in type by John C. Warren, chairman of the committee.
Creator: American Institution for the Cultivation of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Resolutions
Date: 1838

Title: Philadelphia, December 1857. Sir, I beg leave to transmit to you the copy of a resolution adopted by the American Association at its last meeting, and to invite your advice and guidance in the preparation of an appropriate report to that body. I have supposed that the several topics which such a report should embrace, may fitly arrange themselves under the following heads
Identifier(s): text:1769; APSimg6461; Goodman Number: 154; 973 C683 No. 630
Description: Autographed circular letter from J[ohn] K. Kane to Prof. J[ohn] F[ries] Frazer dated December 21, 1857. Lists six general topics which the committee on the coast survey of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is expected to investigate. Also gives a list of the twenty members appointed by the association to the committee: J[ohn] K. Kane, Joseph G. Totten, Benjamin Peirce, John Torrey, Joseph Henry, J. F. Frazer, Wm. Chauvenet, F. A. P. Barnard, John Le Conte, W. M. Gillespie, F. H. Smith, W. H. C. Bartlett, Walcott Gibbs, Stephen Alexander, Lewis R. Gibbes, Joseph Winbock, James Phillips, William Ferrel, Edward Hitchcock, and James D. Dana. Signed in type by Joseph Lovering, permanent secretary of the association.
Creator: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Organizations; Surveying
Date: 1857

Title: May 10, 1848. Sir: The Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, at its meeting in Boston, on the 24th of September, 1847, resolved itself into the American Association for the Promotion of Science, elected its officers as such, and appointed the time and place of the first meeting...to be in the city of Philadelphia, on the third Wednesday (20th) of September, 1848, at 10 o'clock, a.m. [Page 2:] List of Officers.
Identifier(s): text:1321; APSimg6402; Goodman Number: 6; 973 C683 No. 211
Description: Signed in type by Samuel George Morton, chairman of the local committee, and Walter R. Johnson, secretary.; Morton and Johnson's reason for referring to their society as the American Association for the Promotion of Science is not entirely clear, for Goodman #3 clearly points out that the American Association of Geologists and Naturalists was resolved into the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the name which the organization has clearly taken by 1849 (see Goodman #4). One possible explanation for the discrepancy might be that both names were proposed at the September 1847 meeting and neither clearly adopted. Alternately, the organization might have been at first known by the name used by Morton above and later change to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (in which case Goodman #3 would postdate this document).
Creator: American Association for the Promotion of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Science; Invitations
Date: 1848

Title: Circular. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dear Sir:-- At a late meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, Mass., the standing committee was directed, by a general vote of that body, to contract for the publication of the proceedings of the meeting. ...Cambridge, October 5, 1849
Identifier(s): text:1766; APSimg6401; Goodman Number: 4; 973 C683 No. 297
Description: Signed in type by Jeffries Wyman, Louis Agassiz, Benjamin Peirce, Charles H. Davis, Asa Gray, Henry D. Rogers, and E. N. Horsford, members of the committee requested to oversee publication of the proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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; Fund raising
Date: 1849

Title: Baltimore, Maryland, _____ 183_. The Maryland Academy of Science and Literature, having lately had the misfortune to lose its valuable museum and library by fire, respectfully and earnestly appeals to those who feel a common interest in its pursuits, for aid in repairing its loss
Identifier(s): text:1774; APSimg6395; Goodman Number: 31; 973 C683 No. 618
Description: Manuscript date of March 19, 1836. Circular letter signed in type by P. McCaulay, president of the academy, and J. Mason Campbell, secretary. Includes instructions for properly preparing natural history specimens to be sent to the academy.
Creator: Maryland Academy of Science and Literature
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Assistance; Organizations
Date: 1836

Title: Third circular of the committee, relating to the contemplated meeting to commence on the first Monday of April 1844. To which are added certain proceedings of the board of management of the institute.
Identifier(s): text:145; APSimg6408; Goodman Number: 35; 973 C683 No. 713
Description: Discusses plans for the first annual meeting of the National Institute as well as its scope and general goals. Includes minutes of the board of management, December 23, 1843, and copies of circulars issued by the board on October 15, 1842 and February 24, 1843. Lists the following as members of the committee: Joseph C. Spencer, Joseph R. Ingersoll, Robert J. Walker, W[illia]m C. Rives, Rufus Choate, W[illia]m C. Preston, Abbott Lawrence, and Alexander Dallas Bache. Signed in type by Joseph P. Ingersoll.; Top portion of sheet partially destroyed.
Creator: National Institute for the Promotion of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Meetings; Organizations; Science
Date: 1844

Title: Philadelphia Meeting, 1884. Sir:-- I have the honor to inform you that at a recent meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia, you were elected a member of the local committee for the reception of the British and American Associations for the Advancement of Science, who will meet in this city in September, 1884
Identifier(s): text:1761; APSimg 6388; Goodman Number: 5; 973 C683 No. 643
Description: Form letter signed in type by Joseph Leidy, chairman of the local committee and H. Carvill Lewis, secretary.
Creator: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Membership campaigns; Organizations
Date: 1884

Title: Liste des membres qui composent la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice. 1er[.] septembre 1836
Identifier(s): text:136; APSimg6410; Goodman Number: 58; 973 C683 No. 377
Description: Last page of document lists rules and gives a short history of the society.
Creator: Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Natural history
Date: 1836

Title: Rooms of the Amer. Philosophical Soc.[,] Philadelphia, _____ 1863. To the secretary of the _____[.] Sir: You will please find at the rooms of the _____ a package of our publications
Identifier(s): text:76; APSimg6390; Goodman Number: 16; 973 C683 No. 496
Description: Blank form concerning the shipment of APS publications. Signed in type by J. Peter Lesley, librarian and junior secretary.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Forms (Documents); Organizations
Date: 1863

Title: This society is established for the advancement of astronomical science, by means of discussion, aided by a regular and continued series of observations, and extended correspondence. At a meeting of the members held on Tuesday, July 9, the following subjects were proposed for discussion, on the first Tuesday in each month.... 25, Bartlett's Buildings, Holburn. July 15th, 1839
Identifier(s): text:1447; APSimg6444; Goodman Number: 122; 973 C683 No. 338
Description: Signed in type by W. H. White, chairman of the society, and J. M. Cavliêr, honorary secretary.
Creator: Uranian Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Organizations
Date: 1839

Title: The American Philosophical Society...requests the honor of Mr. _____ company at the St. George Hotel on Monday, March 15 1880 at 5 p.m. at a dinner to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the society
Identifier(s): text:75; APSimg6392; Goodman Number: 19; 973 C683 No. 614
Description: Invitation to a dinner to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the American Philosophical Society. Signed in type by William A. Ingham, J. Sergeant Price and Henry Phillips, Jr.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Invitations; Organizations
Date: 1880

Title: Circular. The American Geographical and Statistical Society, formed in October 1851...asks for the co-operation of professional and mercantile men, in the assurance that its aims are worthy of their notice. The following are the officers of the society elected Feb. 21, 1852
Identifier(s): text:858; APSimg6714; Goodman Number: 7
Description: Lists the following officers: George Bancroft, president; Henry Grinnell, Francis L. Hawks, and John C. Zimmerman, vice presidents; Charles Congdon, treasurer; M. Dudley Bean, S. De Witt Bloodgood, and Archibald Russell, secretaries; and Joshua Leavitt, librarian. Also lists the ten members of the executive committee of the society.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: American Geographical and Statistical Society
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; Organizations; Membership campaigns; Geography; Stats
Date: 1852

Title: Sujets de prix, proposés par l'Académie...pour l'année 1782.... [Page 2:] Pour l'année 1783. ...A Lyon, le 5 septembre 1780
Identifier(s): text:63; APSimg6386; Goodman Number: 1; 973 C683 No. 207
Description: Gives details of two prizes proposed and funded by Abbé Guillame-Thomas-François Raynal. The first, to be awarded in 1782, offers 600 livres for the best entry relating to the prosperity of manufacturing in Lyon. The second, to be awarded in 1783,offers 1200 livres for the best entry discussing the beneficial and detrimental effects of the discovery of America. Signed in type by [Marc-Antoine-Louis Claret de Fleurieu de] La Tourrette, perpetual secretary of the academy.
Creator: Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Awards; Organizations; Discovery & exploration; Industry
Date: 1780

Title: Tableau du Cercle des Philadelphes, Établi au Cap-François avec l'approbation du Roi, le 15 août 1784
Identifier(s): text:117; APSimg6406; Goodman Number: 26; 973 C683 No. 190
Description: Lists the 89 members of this short-lived scientific society and classifies them according to the various membership categories. Among the members given are two Americans, Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
Creator: Cercle des Philadelphes
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations
Date: 1787

Title: Sir[,] The Royal Society have receiv'd your present of _____ and I am directed to return you their thanks for the same
Identifier(s): text:695; APSimg6567; Goodman Number: 56
Description: All three copies sent from Royal Society to Benjamin Smith Barton on the following dates: December 7, 1797, February 1, 1798, and April 17, 1799. All contain autograph signature of Charles Peter Layard, secretary of the Royal Society. In them Barton is thanked for sending the following: "Collection for an essay towards a materia medica of the United States," "Papers relative to certain American antiquities," and "New views of the origin of the tribes and nations of America." 3 copies.
Creator: Royal Society (Great Britain)
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; Organizations
Date: ca. 1797-1799

Title: Washington, D.C.[,] March 18, 1863. Sir, Replies have been received to my circular letter of March 5th from more than three- fifths of the members of the National Academy of Sciences
Identifier(s): text:996; APSimg6615; Goodman Number: 34
Description: Circular letter sent to J. P. Lesley from Senator Henry Wilson announcing that the first meeting of the National Academy of Sciences will take place in New York, Wednesday, April 22nd, 1863.; See also Goodman #33. Located in folder: 1863 Mar 18. Henry Wilson to J. P. Lesley.
Creator: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Source: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; National Academy of Sciences (U.S.); Sciences; Organizations
Date: 1863