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Title: Parallelism: Can It Solve the Computer Performance Bottleneck?
Identifier(s): video:792; 2007_11_002
Description: Dr. Allen proposes that parallel computing - a type of computation in which many calculations or the execution of processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time - can help solve the "performance bottleneck" of home computers.
Subject: History of Computing; History of Science; Parallel computers; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2007-11-08

Title: Symposium: The Future of Information. Part I: The Future of News.
Identifier(s): video:812; 2007_11_007
Description: Intorduced by Linda Greenhouse, Bill Kovach starts the symposium discussing who is a journalist in the emerging world of online news.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 153, No. 2 (Jun., 2009).
Subject: History of Science; Democracy; Citizen journalism; Emerging technology; Political power; Self determination; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2007-11-09

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: Turnbull, A. B. to Benjamin Smith Barton, 1809 June 24; Medical Society of London - Acknowledgement of discourse
Identifier(s): text:333687
Creator: Turnbull, A. B.et al
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medicine--Societies, etc; Medical Society of London
Date: 1809-06-24; 2019

Title: Prospectus d'un supplément à l'Encyclopédie alphabétique, extrait de l'Encyclopédie par order des matieres. ...ce 10 decembre 1783
Identifier(s): text:788; APSimg6677; Goodman Number: 101
Description: Prospectus for a supplement to an encyclopedia sent to Benjamin Franklin in 1783. See also Goodman #107 (Mss.B.F85: vol. 77, no. 69).; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, no. 70.
Creator: Société Typographique
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: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Encyclopedias & dictionaries
Date: 1783

Title: An unlimited daily calendar; serving for every year, before and after the Christian era, both for the old and new styles
Identifier(s): text:1762; APSimg6505; Goodman Number: 302; 973 C683 No. 488
Description: Paper instrument with sliding rectangular sheet.
Creator: Garnett, J.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Calendars
Date: n.d.

Title: Royal Menagerie, Exeter 'Change, Strand, revived and improved by S. Polito, the first emporium of living curiosities in the known world; is now classically divided into three different apartments, in a most substantial, clean, and beautiful order
Identifier(s): text:350; APSimg6524; Goodman Number: 75; 973 C683 No. 742
Description: Begun by Gilbert Pidcock in the last decades of the eighteenth century, the Royal Menagerie at Exeter Change was purchased in 1810 by S. Polito, an experienced traveling menagerist. Both Pidcock and his successor successfully promoted their enterprise through enthusiastic advertising in the form of newspaper ads, handbills, and broadsides such as the one above.
Creator: Royal Menagerie, London
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Natural history; Zoos
Date: 1816

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: 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: A living whale! And monstrous living crocodile. In a communication to the Boston Journal, Professor Agassiz gives the following description of the white whale.... [Page 2:] Catalogue. ...Boston, June 3, 1861.
Identifier(s): text:135; APSimg6414; Goodman Number: 65; 973 C683 No. 706
Description: Reprints a letter describing a specimen of white whale by Louis Agassiz which was originally printed in the Boston Journal. Issued only one year after broadside #480, Cutting and Butler had increased the size of their establishment to include 47 tanks of fish and other aquatic animals and 17 cages of terrestrial animals.
Creator: Boston Aquarial and Zoological Gardens
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Aquariums; Zoos; Whales
Date: 1861

Title: A new astronomical instrument. Shewing the day of the month, change and age of the moon, the places of the sun and moon in the ecliptic, with the times of the rising, southing and setting of the sun, moon, and stars of the first, second, and third magnitude, from A.D. 1756 to 1805 inclusive
Identifier(s): text:1756; APSimg6705; Goodman Number: 301; 973 C683 No. 440
Description: Paper astronomical instrument composed of moveable concentric circles imprinted with various scales for ascertaining the day of the month, change and age of the moon, the places of the sun and moon in the ecliptic, etc. Illustrated: outlines of the various constellations contained in the innermost circle.
Creator: Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Astronomical instruments; Stargazing; Almanacs
Date: 1757

Title: Self-Representation in the Brain
Identifier(s): video:988; 2009_04_009
Description: Dr. Churchland focuses on the intersection bertween neuroscience and philosophy.
Subject: History of Science; Brain, Localization of functions; Self-perception; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2009-04-24

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: Circular. Providence, R. I.[,] Nov. 1, 1830. At an adjourned meeting of the board of trustees of the Rhode-Island Historical Society, holden [sic] October 25, 1830, the subject of the early history of our country being under consideration, and the board being deeply impressed with the importance of procuring every authentic paper and document relative thereto, that it is in our power to obtain...
Identifier(s): text:1307; APSimg6398; Goodman Number: 52; 973 C683 No. 619
Description: An attempt to gather support for the passage of an act in Congress which would authorize the U. S. Government to obtain records relating to the early settlement of America in the possession of the British government. Signed in type by Usher Parsons, W. R. Staples, and Thomas H. Webb, members of the library committee of the society.
Creator: Rhode Island Historical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Circulars; Records (Information); Colonies
Date: 1830

Title: Symposium:Current Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Across Disciplinary Lines. Part I: Understanding the Increased Prevalence of Autism
Identifier(s): video:1074; 2010_11_013
Description: Harriet Zuckerman introduces the symposium. She is followed by Peter Bearman who gives a talk on the prevalence of Autism in lower socioeconomic groups.
Subject: History of Science; Autism; Socioeconomic Factors, United States; Inequality, UNited States; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2010-11-13

Title: The Unlikely Birth of Organ Transplantation
Identifier(s): video:982; 2009_04_005
Description: Clyde Barker introduces Dr. Starzl and the Symposium on organ transplantation. Dr. Starzl gives a history of organ transplatation.
Subject: History of Science; Medicine, History; Organ Transplantation, history.; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2009-04-24

Title: William F. Jenks Notes on the Lectures on Physiology and the Institute, Delivered by Francis Gurney Smith M.D., Penn 1864-1865; Medical notes - Lectures on Physiology
Identifier(s): text:332049
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medicine--Study and teaching--History--19th century; Medical education; Science and technology; Medical sciences; Physiology; Cell physiology; Reproduction; Jenks, William F. (William Furness), 1842-1881
Date: 1864-1865; 2020

Title: Medical lecture notes vol. 1, 1865; Medical notes - University of Pennsylvania - H.B. Hare #1
Identifier(s): text:332403
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medicine--Study and teaching--History--19th century; Medical education; Science and technology; Medical sciences; Tonsillitis; Lymphatics; Ulcers; Pharyngitis; Diphtheria; Indigestion; Nutrition; Hare, Horace Binney, 1843-1879
Date: 1865; 2020

Title: A table of French verbs...inscib'd to the American Philosophical Society
Identifier(s): text:314; local: APSimg6741; local: 269
Description: Extra oversized table of the conjugation of French verbs in various tenses, with models for regular and irregular verbs. Includes illustration: wood cut of ship approaching shore inscribed "they steer to Liberty's shores."
Creator: Carré, C. (Charles)et al
Subject: 973 C683 No. 37; Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Language; Grammar; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French--Dictionaries--French; French language--Grammar; Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date: 1780

Title: We venture to state in order the following reasons for the subsidy on a large scale of research unencumbered with teaching
Identifier(s): text:829; APSimg6699; Goodman Number: 347
Description: Signed in type by the author with the signature of Charles Darwin appended to document.; Item call number: B H981.26.
Creator: Appleton, Charles Edward Cutts Birch, 1841-1879 Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920; Appleton, Charles Edward Cutts Birch, 1841-1879 Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920
Source: Thomas Henry Huxley Papers (Mss.B.H981); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.H981-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Miscellaneous; Broadside Subdivision: ; Universities & colleges; Research; Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882; Teaching
Date: ca. 1875