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Title: Why Don’t We Get More Cancer
Identifier(s): video:1611
Description: Dr. Bissell talks about the processes in developemental biology. How are tumors like organs? Why do our organs and other body parts "know" to stop growing?; Further reading: Nature Medicine volume 17 (2011). pages 320–329.
Subject: History of Science; Cancer, Research; Tumors; Developmental biology; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2019-11-08

Title: From the Utica Morning Herald, January 11, 1893. Local historians. Annual meeting of the Oneida Historical Society. Officers elected
Identifier(s): text:1026; APSimg6624; Goodman Number: 45
Description: Document summarizing the proceedings of a meeting of the Oneida Historical Society. Appears to be an offprint from the Utica Morning Herald. The Oneida Historical Society was founded in 1876 and continues to exist today.; Item call number: Pam. v. 89, no. 29.
Creator: Oneida Historical Society at Utica
Source: Pamphlet Collection (Pam. v. 89);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Historical societies; Judicial proceedings
Date: 1893

Title: Dorsey, John Syng to the Medical Professors of the University Philadelphia, 1806 January 2; Dorsey, John Syng, 1783-1818
Identifier(s): text:332733
Creator: Dorsey, John Syng, 1783-1818et al
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medical education; Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date: 1806-01-02; 2019

Title: Foulke, William Parker to Thomas B. Florence
Description: Letter regarding fees for use of Dr. Hayes' vessel in Boston.
Subject: Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration; Science and Technology; Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881
Date: 1861-03-09

Title: Amusement here with science is combin'd, to please, improve, and cultivate the mind
Identifier(s): text:137; APSimg6412; Goodman Number: 63; 973 C683 No. 164
Description: This broadside, apparently made up of parts clipped from a larger item and pasted together, is possibly an advertisement for Peale's Museum. Ill.: wood engraving by Lansing of eagle holding shield and arrows.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Galleries & museums; Advertisements
Date: n.d.

Title: Observations meteorologiques faites a Springmill, 1787-1800 ... Part I; Part I
Identifier(s): text:345725
Description: One of two volumes that contains the meteorological records Peter Legaux kept for fourteen years in Spring Mill, Pennsylvania. One portion contains his correspondence to the American Philosophical Society in which he explains his methods for recording data. The materials dated 1801 were addressed to Thomas Jefferson, then president of the APS. The second part of the collection contains the raw data. Also included in the data collection are records from the 1740s to the 1770s for Philadelphia that are believed to be done by Phineas [possibly Israel] Pemberton. One chart is addressed to Benjamin Franklin, "président de l'Etat de Pennsylvanie et président de la société phylosophique...1789." All or most of the material was sent to Thomas Jefferson as president of the United States and of the American Philosophical Society.; Includes an English translation of the above Observations and copies made by M. Legaux of tables 2-5.
Creator: Legaux, Peter, 1748-1827et al
Subject: Science and technology; Meteorology; Meteorology--Observations; Weather; Legaux, Peter, 1748-1827; American Philosophical Society
Date: 1801-02-25; 2021

Title: Marvels of Bacterial Behavior
Identifier(s): video:501; 2005_04_013
Description: An engaging lecture on the history of bacteria, how they move, and how they grow.
Subject: History of Science; Bacteria, Physiology; Bacteria, Movement; Microbiology; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2005-04-29

Title: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1907-1909
Identifier(s): text:276910
Subject: Sabin, Florence Rena, 1871-1953; American Association for the Advancement of Science
Date: 1907-1909

Title: SYMPOSIUM: Exploration and Discovery in the American Imagination. Part IV: Earth, Moon, Mars and Beyond: The Future of Space Exploration
Identifier(s): video:374; 2004_11_004
Description: In Honor of Edward C. Carter II, 1928 - 2002; Marsha Ivins replaces John Mace Grunsfeld. Her energetic talk discusses the living conditions on the International Space Station.
Subject: History of Science; Astronauts, Living conditions; International Space Station; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2004-11-12

Title: North east entrance in Kensington Road. Admit the bearer to the ceremony of laying the first stone of the Hall of Arts & Sciences, Kensington Gore
Identifier(s): text:315; APSimg6515; Goodman Number: 349; 973 C683 No. 677
Description: Ticket to admit the bearer to the ceremony of laying the first stone of the Hall of Arts & Sciences, Kensington Gore.
Creator: Kensington Gore Hall of Arts and Sciences
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Miscellaneous; Broadside Subdivision: ; Building dedications; Educational facilities
Date: 1867

Title: Symposium: Current Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Across Disciplinary Lines. Part III: Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Comparison Divides Us.
Identifier(s): video:1076; 2010_11_015
Description: Dr. Fiske talks about the psychological effects of comparing social status. How does class consciousness divide American society?; Further reading: Fiske, S. Envy Up, Scorn Down : How Status Divides Us (Russell Sage: 2012)
Subject: History of Science; Comparission (Psychology); Social classes, United States; Class consciousness, United States.; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2010-11-13

Title: From the Utica Morning Herald, January 15, 1896. Oneida historians. Annual meeting of the county historical society. Officers elected and reports presented--women admitted to membership for the first time in the history of the society
Identifier(s): text:1018; APSimg6625; Goodman Number: 46
Description: Document summarizing the proceedings of a meeting of the Oneida Historical Society. Appears to be an offprint from the Utica Morning Herald. The Oneida Historical Society was founded in 1876 and continues to exist today.; Item call number: Pam. v. 89, no. 32.
Creator: Oneida Historical Society at Utica
Source: Pamphlet Collection (Pam. v. 89);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Historical societies; Women's rights; Membership campaigns
Date: 1896

Title: Beyond Mice and Menus
Identifier(s): video:60; 2003_11_001
Description: Dr. Grosz gives an engaging lecture on the history of computers and how she believes the world of computers should move forward and beyond "mice and menus"
Subject: History of Computing; History of Science; Computer systems; Computers; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2003-11-14

Title: Our Simple and Strange Universe
Identifier(s): video:1507
Description: Professor David Spergel discusses theoretical and general relativity and how they effect our view of the universe.
Subject: History of Science; Astrophysics, Study and teaching; Dark matter (Astronomy), Research.; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-04-27

Title: Lincoln and Marfan Syndrome
Identifier(s): video:1570
Description: Ron Fairman discusses Marfan syndrome and how Lincoln was terminally ill at the time of his assasination. Marfan syndrome would have killed him within a year of his murder.
Subject: History of Science; Marfan syndrome, Patients, Biography; Genetic disorders; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2019-04-25

Title: The Galactic Center: Unveiling the Pulse of Our Galaxy
Identifier(s): video:1020; 2012_11_015
Description: How do you study something you can't see? Dr. Ghez tells the story of how scientists have found black holes.; Further reading: Science. New Series, Vol. 300, No. 5627 (Jun. 20, 2003), pp. 1898-1903
Subject: History of Science; Stars; Black holes (Astronomy); Milky Way; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2012-11-10

Title: Fetal Surgery for Spina Bifida: Trials and Tribulations
Identifier(s): video:1013; 2012_11_009
Description: Dr. Adzick's talk focuses on his research conducting fetal surgery for Spina Bifida. He leads the field of fetal surgery for birth defects.
Subject: History of Science; Spina bifida, Surgery; Fetal disease, Diagnosis; Fetal Diseases, surgery.; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2012-11-09

Title: Accepting Transplantation for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: A Real Philosophical Debate for the Medical Community and the Society
Identifier(s): video:986; 2009_04_007
Description: Dr. Lantieri's lecture details the history of plastic surgery from the 17th century to modern facial surgery. He discusses the bioethics involved in the field and its future.
Subject: History of Science; Face, Transplantation; Bioethics, Plastic surgery; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2009-04-24

Title: The course of examination and questions propounded in the several schools of the University of Virginia, at the late public examination in July, 1828
Identifier(s): text:36; APSimg6627; Goodman Number: 88
Description: Areas of science-related exam questions listed include: mathematics, under Professor [Charles] Bonnycastle, chemistry and materia medica, under Dr. [John P.] Emmet, and medicine under Drs. [Robley] Dunglison and [Thomas] Johnson. From the papers of Robert M. Patterson.; Item call number: 510 Pam. xp no. 6.
Creator: University of Virginia
Source: Robert Maskell Patterson Papers (510 Pam. xp);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Universities & colleges; Examinations
Date: 1828

Title: To the public. The address of the New-York Historical Society
Identifier(s): text:826; APSimg6691; Goodman Number: 38
Description: Originally contained with letter from Samuel Miller to Ebenezer Hazard, October 24, 1810, indicating to Hazard that he had been elected an honorary member of the society. Requests receiver to "promote the objects of our institution" by transmitting books, pamphlets, maps, and manuscripts on various subjects and includes a specific request for "statistical tables- -tables of diseases, births, and deaths, and of population; of meteorological observations and facts relating to climate." Signed in type by John Pintard, recording secretary.; Folder #32.
Creator: New-York Historical Society
Source: Ebenezer Hazard Papers (Mss.B.H338);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Historical societies; History; Natural history
Date: 1809