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Title: United States Senate[,] March 5, 1863. Sir, A bill to incorporate the "National Academy of Sciences" has been introduced by me in the Senate, and, having passed through the several stages of legislation, has now become a law under which you are one of the corporators
Identifier(s): text:1013; APSimg6614; Goodman Number: 33
Description: Circular letter from Senator Henry Wilson announcing passage of legislation incorporating the National Academy of Sciences and requesting the best date for the letter's recipient, named as one of the corporators of the academy, to join in a meeting of the newly-formed body. Sent by Wilson to J. P. Lesley, March 5, 1863 and signed by Wilson.; Located in folder: 1863 Mar 5. 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

Title: Scientia in bello pax. The United States Military Philosophical Society instituted for the purpose of improving and disseminating military science...have elected _____ a member thereof
Identifier(s): text:1751; APSimg6739; Goodman Number: 60; 973 C683 No. 369
Description: Membership certificate filled in for John Vaughan. Illustrated broadside, including numerous symbols of military science and warfare. The United States Military Philosophical Society held its last recorded meeting November 1, 1813. For more information on the Society, see also Sidney Forman, "The United States Military Philosophical Society, 1802-1813." William and Mary Quarterly. 3rd ser., vol. 2, no. 3 (July 1945): 273-285.; Extra oversized.
Creator: United States Military Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Military organizations; Military art & science; Vaughan, John, 1755-1841
Date: ca. 1803-1810

Title: M. ______[,] Vous êtes prié d'honorer de votre présence, jeudi 30 du présent mois d'avril, le rendez-vous de la République des Lettres et des Arts...
Identifier(s): text:784; APSimg6674; Goodman Number: 51
Description: Circular in French inviting the recipient to attend a meeting of the Republic of the Letters and the Arts. Originally enclosed with a letter from Pahin-Champlain de la Blancherie to Benjamin Franklin, January 20, 1779 (see B:F85:vol.40:no.168).; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, No. 38
Creator: République des Lettres et des Arts
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: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Learning and scholarship; Organizations
Date: 1779

Title: Circular. American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, 6th March, 1849.
Identifier(s): text:591; APSimg6604; Goodman Number: 108
Description: An attempt to obtain expressions of support for Schumacher whose astronomical research and publication were endangered by the strained political relations between Denmark and the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. Requests that scientific societies in the United States add their written support to that rendered by the world scientific community. Reprints such letters of support from A[lexander] von Humboldt, M. [Dominique-François-Jean] Arago, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Signed in type by Edward Everett, Benjamin Peirce, and J. Ingersoll Bowditch, members of the committee appointed to communicate the academy's position.
Creator: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Astronomical observatories; Organizations; Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780-1850
Date: 1849

Title: Scientia in bello pax. The United States Military Philosophical Society instituted for the purpose of improving and disseminating military science...have elected _____ a member thereof
Identifier(s): text:302; APSimg6739; Goodman Number: 60; 973 C683 No. 369
Description: Membership certificate filled in for John Vaughan. Illustrated broadside, including numerous symbols of military science and warfare. The United States Military Philosophical Society held its last recorded meeting November 1, 1813. For more information on the Society, see also Sidney Forman, "The United States Military Philosophical Society, 1802-1813." William and Mary Quarterly. 3rd ser., vol. 2, no. 3 (July 1945): 273-285.; Extra oversized.
Creator: United States Military Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Military organizations; Military art & science; Vaughan, John, 1755-1841
Date: ca. 1803-1810

Title: Circular. At a meeting of the aid committee of the trustees of the fund for a fire-proof building for the American Philosophical Society, it was resolved...
Identifier(s): text:610; APSimg6599; Goodman Number: 17
Description: Subscription aimed at raising money for a larger, fire-proof building for the society. Committee included Franklin Peale, John C. Cresson, Robert Cornelius, Henry Winsor, Edward Hartshornes, and Thomas P. James.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
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: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Fund raising; Organizations' facilities
Date: ca. 1867

Title: List of the [members of the] Linnean Society, 1798
Identifier(s): text:691; APSimg6580; Goodman Number: 29
Description: Lists honorary members (4), fellows (173), foreign members (76), and associates (34) of this famed natural history society begun by James Edward Smith, Samuel Goodenough, and Thomas Marsham.
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; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778; Organizations
Date: 1798

Title: Honor to Dr. Kane
Identifier(s): text:833; APSimg6713; Goodman Number: 323
Description: Resolutions of the Arcana Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons to procure funds for erection of a monument to Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, the famed Arctic explorer.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Freemasons. Arcana Lodge, No. 246 (New York, N.Y.)
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: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857; Monuments; Fund raising; Fraternal organizations
Date: ca. 1857