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Title: Meteorology. Mr. A. Andrews of Boston, would respectfully inform the citizens of this town, that he will give a lecture on meteorology or the "philosophy of storms," at _____ on _____ evening
Identifier(s): text:367; APSimg6538; Goodman Number: 164; 973 C683 No. 534
Description: Notes that lecture was to be given at the "The Academy--Dudley" on Monday, January 24, 1842. In addition to his meteorological lecture, Andrews also advertises that any person who comes at 3 p.m. the day of the lecture will be able to employ his compound microscope to examine natural history specimens and that those staying after the lecture will be able to use his telescope.
Creator: Andrews, A.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Natural history; Meteorology; Public speaking
Date: ca. 1842

Title: Public lectures. The faculty of arts announce the following courses of historical and scientific lectures, to be delivered in the College Hall. ...Philadelphia, November 23, 1846
Identifier(s): text:233; APSimg6454; Goodman Number: 141; 973 C683 No. 639
Description: Advertises a series of ten lectures on electricity to be given by Professor [John F.] Frazer. Signed in type by Geo[rge] Allen, secretary of the faculty of arts.
Creator: University of Pennsylvania. Department of Arts
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Electricity; Electricity; Public speaking; Universities & colleges
Date: 1846

Title: Astronomical exhibition. Or, amusement and science combined. Charles Pritchard, will deliver, before such of the ladies and gentlemen of this place as may be pleased to honor him with their company, a lecture on astronomy--attended with an interesting exhibition, calculated to amuse and afford instruction, on a new plan, intended to expand the mind in a knowledge of the Creator's works
Identifier(s): text:1426; APSimg6442; Goodman Number: 120; 973 C683 No. 486
Description: Pritchard claims to exhibit over 50 astronomical figures during his lecture. However, despite its title, the exhibition was also scheduled to include a "splendid collection of wild beasts" and several allegorical paintings. Page 2 contains recommendations from persons residing in the eastern United States.
Creator: Pritchard, Charles
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Public speaking
Date: [ca. 1824]

Title: Popular lectures on natural history, ...as lecture committees repeatedly ask for notices of the press regarding the lectures of Professor Morse, the following are selected from hundreds
Identifier(s): text:584; APSimg6647; Goodman Number: 228a
Description: Numerous newspaper testimonials attesting to Morse's skill as a lecturer of natural history. After studying conchology under Louis Agassiz at the Lawrence Scientific School, Morse went on to become an active zoologist, popular lecturer, and beginning in 1880, director of the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts. Includes testimonial in German. See also Goodman #228 (973 C683, no. 497).; Item call number: 920 Pam., no. 349.
Creator: Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925
Source: Pamphlet Collection (920 Pam.);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Public speaking; Zoology
Date: n.d.

Title: Scientific lectures! Chemistry. Professor Hindman, formerly prof. of natural sciences in West Winfield Seminary, assisted by Perley Ainsworth, artist, will deliver a lecture on chemistry
Identifier(s): text:230; APSimg6450; Goodman Number: 130
Description: Manuscript addition to broadside indicates that the lecture was to be given at the "School House--Sacketts Harbor, N.Y, on Thursday evening, Aug. 7, 1859."
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Public speaking
Date: 1859

Title: Newport, March 16, 1752. Notice is hereby given to the curious, that at the Court-House, in the Council-Chamber, is now to be exhibited, and continued from day to day, for a week or two; a course of experiments, on the newly-discovered electrical fire: containing; not only the most curious of those that have been published in Europe, but a considerable number of new ones lately made in Philadelphia; to be accompanied with methodical lectures on the nature and properties of that wonderful element
Identifier(s): text:1772; APSimg6453; Goodman Number: 140; 973 C683 No. 275
Description: Kinnersley, collaborator with Benjamin Franklin in his electrical studies, lectured on electricity and lightning in Philadelphia, Newport, New York, and elsewhere before accepting an appointment as professor of English at the College of Philadelphia in 1753.; Photocopy. Location of original source unknown.
Creator: Kinnersley, Ebenezer, 1711-1778
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Electricity; Electricity--Experiments; Fire; Public speaking
Date: 1752

Title: On Friday the 21st of January, 1825, this splendid establishment was opened to the subscribers and their friends. Upwards of three hundred ladies and gentlemen were present.... Inaugural lecture. Bath: Printed by Richard Cruttwell, St. James's-Street
Identifier(s): text:1354; APSimg6405; Goodman Number: 23; 973 C683 No. 424
Description: The inaugural lecturer, Sir George Gibbes, M.D., indicates that the "institution is intended to include the whole range of literary and philosophical inquiry" and details numerous areas worthy of scientific investigation. From the Bath Chronicle, January 27, 1825.
Creator: Bath Literary Institution
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Public speaking; Science
Date: 1825

Title: Librairie de Pichon et Didier. Cours de l'histoire naturelle des Mammifères, professé au Jardin du Roi par M. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, les lundis, mercredis et vendredis. Recueilli par une Société de Sténographes, revu par le professeur, et publié par leçons. Prospectus.
Identifier(s): text:1070; local: APSimg6646; local: 222
Description: Prospectus for the publication of a lecture series of Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire who in 1793 became professor of zoology at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris at the young age of 21. When the Jardin was reorganized in June of 1793, Geoffroy was named professor of quadrupeds, cetaceans, birds, reptiles, and fish.; Item call number: Pam. v. 105, no. 20.
Creator: Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne, 1772-1844et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Mammals; Public speaking
Date: 1793

Title: Lecture[.] Perley Ainsworth, artist, will deliver a lecture at _____ on _____ ev'g, _____ 185_[.] He will illustrate his subjects with many beautiful experiments, explaining the laws of chemical affinity, combustion, galvanism, electricity, gas making and ballooning!
Identifier(s): text:1470; APSimg6445; Goodman Number: 124; 973 C683 No. 710
Description: Ainsworth was one of many itinerant popular lecturers who traveled across the United States in the nineteenth century. He was at one time associated with a Professor Hindman under whom he may have learned his trade (see Goodman #130).
Creator: Ainsworth, Perley
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Public speaking
Date: [185_]

Title: The analysis of a lecture upon the eidouranion; or astronomical lucernal, explaining the courses, distances, situations, magnitudes and motions of the heavenly bodies
Identifier(s): text:151; APSimg6439; Goodman Number: 110; 973 C683 No. 102
Description: Includes list of illustrations to be exhibited during the lecture. Manuscript note indicates that the broadside was presented to the American Philosophical Society by Thomas Stewardson, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, April 1897.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Public speaking; Stargazing
Date: n.d.

Title: Lectures on geology. By John Finch, F.B.S. Author of several geological essays
Identifier(s): text:240; APSimg6457; Goodman Number: 146; 973 C683 No. 574
Description: Proposal to offer a series of 12 lectures on geology, probably in Boston. Finch, a British geologist, traveled extensively in the eastern United States and Canada in the second and third decades of the nineteenth century, publishing articles on the geology of the areas he visited in American scientific journals. In 1833 he published a full account of his stay in America under the title Travels in the United States and Canada, containing some account of their scientific institutions, and a few notices of the geology and mineralogy of those countries (London, 1833).
Creator: Finch, John, Esq.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Geology; Public speaking
Date: [ca. 1830]

Title: To the nobility and gentry in particular, and public in general. Robert Raper, successor to the late famous Addrian Van Brocola, the first inventor and proprietor of the philosophical fire, and the undermentioned chymical preparations, which has gained him great esteem, at the Italian, German, and British Courts
Identifier(s): text:1464; APSimg6451; Goodman Number: 133; 973 C683 No. 523
Description: Inscription: "[illegible] of Union Street[,] Leeds, Honorable Thos. FitzMorris[,] Liverpool.
Creator: Raper, Robert
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Public speaking
Date: n.d.

Title: Academia Scientiarium Imperialis L: S: Academiam Petri Magni auspiciis.... Datum ex Academia Scientiarum M: Januar: D: 14 A: 1726. [Saint Petersburg]: Typis mandatum Typographia Petropolitana
Identifier(s): text:65; APSimg6387; Goodman Number: 2; 973 C683 No. 531
Description: Announcement in Latin of the first series of lectures to be given at the college of the academy by the following: Daniel Bernoulli, Theophilus Sigefrid Bayer, Nicolaus Bernoulli, Christianus Martini, J. C. Buxbaum, Jacobus Hermannus, J. Peter Kohl, J. Simon Beckenstein, Michael Burger, Johannes Georgius Du Vernoy, Georgius Bernhardus Bulffinger, C. F. Gross, F. C. Majer, and Joseph-Nicolaus Delilse. Also gives instructors in the gymansium.
Creator: Académie impériale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Announcements; Public speaking; Natural history
Date: 1726

Title: Scientific lecture. Prof. Edgerton of Michigan has the pleasure of announcing to the citizens of _____ that he will lecture on _____ evening _____ upon the following subjects
Identifier(s): text:386; APSimg6535; Goodman Number: 145; 973 C683 No. 519
Description: Edgerton was an itinerant lecturer who, from the list of topics given in this broadside, spoke primarily of the relationship between geology and Christianity from a catastrophist's point of view. In addition Edgerton also lectured on the "phenomenon and the philosophy of storms."
Creator: Edgerton, Professor
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Public speaking; Geology; Christianity; Storms
Date: ca. 1840?

Title: Syllabus of the lectures of Thomas Cooper, Esq. M.D. as professor of geology and mineralogy in the University of Pennsylvania
Identifier(s): text:600; APSimg6608; Goodman Number: 143
Description: Cooper, important as a dessiminator of scientific information and promoter of science in America, was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1815 to 1819 and is best known for the American editions he prepared for several English textbooks and his description of Joseph Priestley's scientific work (see Goodman #128).
Creator: Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/a/apsmc.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Geology; Minerals; Public speaking; Universities & colleges
Date: ca. 1815-1819

Title: University of Pennsylvania. A course of lectures on natural history. by Benjamin Smith Barton
Identifier(s): text:694; APSimg6573; Goodman Number: 238
Description: Ticket for admission. Initialed by Barton. Immediately after returning from medical studies abroad in 1789, Barton became professor of natural history and botany at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1795 also assumed the responsibilities of the materia medica chair.; For similar tickets to other lectures offered by him, see Goodman #187, 188.
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; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Natural history; Public speaking
Date: n.d.

Title: Redemptoris typo. Tentamina de electricitate. ...Exercitium istud quod sibi dedicari concessit, présentiâ suâ nobiltabit D. Benjamin Franklin, bene meritorum de electricitate physicorum princeps in Mazarinaeo
Identifier(s): text:787; APSimg6681; Goodman Number: 136
Description: Document announces the defense of a thesis by Louis-Hilaire Fagnan concerning the properties of electricity. Dr. Benjamin Franklin will be present, because the exercise is dedicated to him. See also more complete description with broadside. Includes illustration of Abraham and Isaac.; Hays reference #: Vol. 76, no. 38. Oversized.
Creator: Dumay, Julianus-Maria
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: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Electricity; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Electricity; Public speaking
Date: [1779]

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: Indian antiquities. A course of popular and highly interesting lectures on American archeology will be delivered by Prof. M. W. Dickeson, M.D., illustrated by diagrams, paintings, and upwards of ten thousand specimens of American antiquities, collected by him during a period of twelve years research in the valley of the Mississippi
Identifier(s): text:1785; APSimg6545; Goodman Number: 258; 973 C683 No. 61
Description: Advertises a series of lectures to be given under the auspices of the Jefferson Institute by M. W. Dickeson, archeologist and one-time Philadelphia physician, who spent twelve years in the southern Mississippi valley drawing and excavating mounds which had been erected there by the aboriginal populations. Includes illustrations of Indian artifacts and "Selterstown Mound." Signed in type by Daniel L. Leeds, J. Clement Remington, and John Woolman, members of the committee on lectures.
Creator: Dickeson, Montroville Wilson
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities; Archaeology; Indians of North America; Public speaking
Date: [1851]

Title: University of Pennsylvania. A course of lectures on materia medica. by Benjamin Smith Barton
Identifier(s): text:702; APSimg6582
Description: Ticket for admission. Initialed by Barton. Immediately after returning from medical studies abroad in 1789, Barton became professor of natural history and botany at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1795 also assumed the responsibilities of the materia medica chair.; For similar tickets to other lectures offered by him, see Goodman #187, 188, 238.
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; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Medicine; Medical education; Public speaking
Date: n.d.