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Title: Soft Robots:;
Identifier(s): video:1329;
Description: ; ; George Whitesides gives the Walter L. Robb Lecture on “Useful Knowledge.” He describes his research group's advances in soft robots, which are fabricated in materials that do not use a rigid skeleton to provide mechanical strength, and are actuated pneumatically
Subject: ; History of Science; Robotics; Biometry; The Walter L. Robb Lecture on “Useful Knowledge”; Whitesides Research Group; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2015-04-24

Title: Receipt for University of Pennsylvania Medical Department session; Fox, Edward - Receipt to Paul Hutchinson for U. of P.
Identifier(s): text:333042
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medicine; Medical education; University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Hutchinson, Paul; Fox, Edward, 1752-1822
Date: 1814-1815; 2019

Title: Meteorological observations, 1839-1846
Identifier(s): text:346700
Description: Michael Jacobs was a Pennsylvania Lutheran clergyman and educator; he taught mathematics and natural sciences at Pennsylvania (now Gettysburg) College, 1832-1866. This item contains observations made at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Creator: Jacobs, M. (Michael), 1808-1871et al
Subject: Science and technology; Meteorology; Meteorology--Observations; Weather; Civil War; Jacobs, M. (Michael), 1808-1871; Gettysburg College; Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1839-1846; 2021

Title: To the public. ...Conditions...upon which said annual [Magellanic] premiums will be awarded. ...Published by order of the society, at Philadelphia, the 19th day of November, 1786
Identifier(s): text:994; APSimg6748; Goodman Number: 10
Description: Signed in type by James Hutchinson, Robert Patterson, Samuel Magaw, and John Foulke, secretaries of the American Philosophical Society. Originally enclosed in letter from Samuel Vaughan to [Jean] Hermann, professor of medicine at the University of Strasbourg, March 20, 1788. The Magellanic premium was begun in 1786 with a 200-guinea donation from John Hyacinth Magellan, a Portuguese member of the Royal Society, and was awarded periodically to "the author of the best discovery, or most useful improvement relating to navigation, astronomy or natural philosophy, mere natural history only excepted."; Located in folder: 1788 March 20. Samuel Vaughan to Professor Hermann.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Awards; Astronomy; Navigation; Physics
Date: 1786

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: Tom Starzl and the Evolution of Transplantation
Identifier(s): video:1459
Description: Dr. Barker gives a lecture on Thomas Starzl's work on organ transplantation.; Further reading: http://opac.amphilsoc.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=227499
Subject: History of Science; Organ transplantation, History; Medicine, History; Starzl, Thomas E. (Thomas Earl), 1926-2017; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-09

Title: Committee for the Philadelphia Medical Society to Benjamin Smith Barton, 1815 January 17; Philadelphia Medical Society
Identifier(s): text:333181
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medical education; University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: 1815-01-17; 2019

Title: Bees in Crisis: Colony Collapse, Honey Laundering and Other Problems Bee-Setting American Apiculture
Identifier(s): video:1087; 2011_04_003
Description: Dr. Berenbaum gives us a whirlwind tour of the life of bees. She goes through a little of the history of beekeeping in the United States, ending with the 21st century mass honey making industry.; Berenbaum is the founder of the Insect Fear Film Festival: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_Fear_Film_Festival
Subject: History of Science; Bees, Diseases and pests; Bees, United States; Ecological disturbances, United States; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2011-04-28

Title: Verzeichniss der optischen Werkzeuge welche in dem optischen Institute zu Benedictbeurn[,] Utzschneider et Fraunhofer für nachstehende Preise verfertigt werden
Identifier(s): text:322; APSimg6554; Goodman Number: 311; 973 C683 No. 362
Description: Catalog issued by the optical instrument makers Joseph Utzschneider and Joseph Fraunhofer. Signed in type by J[oseph] Utzschneider.
Creator: Utzschneider, Joseph von, 1763-1840 Fraunhofer, Joseph von, 1787-1826; Utzschneider, Joseph von, 1763-1840 Fraunhofer, Joseph von, 1787-1826
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Optical devices; Scientific apparatus and instruments--Catalogs
Date: 1816

Title: Protections, Privileges, and Patents: Intellectual Property in Plants from the Late Nineteenth Century to 1930
Identifier(s): video:781; 2007_04_010
Description: Dr. Kevles' lecture concerns the changes over the last 3 centuries of patent law.
Subject: History of Science; Intellectual property, United States, History, 19th century; Horticulture, United States, History, 19th century; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2007-04-27

Title: Madagascar: On the Edge of Survival:;
Identifier(s): video:1328;
Description: ; ; The Henry LaBarre Jayne Lecture for 2015 is presented by Dr. Patricia Wright. She discusses the challenges facing the lemurs of Madagascar and how climate change is effecting their habitat.
Subject: ; History of Science; Conservation, Africa; Climate Change, Africa; Lemurs; The Henry LaBarre Jayne Lecture.; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2015-04-25

Title: Dobson, Thomas to whom it may concern, 1804 June 16; Dobson, Thomas
Identifier(s): text:333135
Description: Certificate of William & Thomas Bradford's offer to publish medical thesis (University of Pennsylvania).
Creator: Dobson, Thomas, 1751-1823et al
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medical education; Publishing; Booksellers and bookselling; Dissertations, Academic; Bradford, Thomas, 1781-1851
Date: 1804-06-16; 2019

Title: Medical lecture notes vol. 4, 1864-1865; Medical notes - University of Pennsylvania - H.B. Hare #4
Identifier(s): text:331785
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medicine--Study and teaching--History--19th century; Hare, Horace Binney, 1843-1879
Date: 1864-1865; 2020

Title: Meteorological observations, 1846-1848
Identifier(s): text:346727
Description: Michael Jacobs was a Pennsylvania Lutheran clergyman and educator; he taught mathematics and natural sciences at Pennsylvania (now Gettysburg) College, 1832-1866. This item contains observations made at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Creator: Jacobs, M. (Michael), 1808-1871et al
Subject: Science and technology; Meteorology; Meteorology--Observations; Weather; Civil War; Jacobs, M. (Michael), 1808-1871; Gettysburg College; Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1846-1848; 2021

Title: Bettally and Noseda to William Temple Franklin, 1782 October 1; Bettally and Noseda. to William Temple Franklin
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:26367
Description: Letter from Bettally and Noseda to William Temple Franklin. Sending a sample of Phosphorous candles. Bettally was a French maker and dealer of scientific instruments who was at the time working with Noseda, a partner about whom we know little. This document concerns an invention that Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier had described and announced for sale in the previous day's Journal de Paris: phosphoric candles, or self-igniting candles. Bettally & Noseda, finding that their customers complained of low success rates, soon began selling phosphoric candles of their own manufacture. Franklin was so impressed with these devices that he included phosphoric candles among the recent scientific developments he described to François Steinsky and Jan Ingenhousz. When Thomas Jefferson arrived in Paris in 1784, he was likewise amazed by these “phosphoretic matches” and planned to send some to America. He later learned that they were already being sold in Philadelphia.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Social networks--18th century; Household supplies; Science--History--18th century; Bettally and Noseda; Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823
Date: 1782-10-01; 2022

Title: History of the Grinnell Exploring Expedition to the Arctic Ocean, in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853-4-5. Dr. E. K. Kane, U.S.N., commanding. By William Godfrey, one of the survivors of the expedition.
Identifier(s): text:347; APSimg6508; Goodman Number: 319; 973 C683 No. 94
Description: Prospectus from Godfrey, an ordinary seaman attached to the second Grinnell expedition, who claims in this broadside: "I saved Dr. Kane's life in the Arctic Ocean, and he denounces me in his book as a deserter."
Creator: Godfrey, Wm. C. (William C.)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Discovery & exploration; Grinnell Expedition; Arctic regions
Date: ca. 1857

Title: Valuable real estate. Philadelphia Museum. Peremptory sale
Identifier(s): text:845; APSimg6707; Goodman Number: 79
Description: Faced with severe financial difficulties, the board of trustees of the Philadelphia Museum (more popularly known as Peale's Museum) was forced to sell the building it had erected in 1838 (see Goodman #73: 973 C683, no. 95). On August 5, 1841, Robert Patterson, acting on behalf of the American Philosophical Society, tendered the winning bid for the structure, the society having decided to sell its Philosophical Hall on Independence Square to the city of Philadelphia and move to the relatively new building which had been constructed for the Philadlephia Museum. Negotiations with the city fell through, however, and the Philadelphia Museum was given a temporary reprieve from its financial obligations, while the American Philosophical Society was forced to remain in its original home.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Wolbert, C. J. & Company, Auctioneers
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: Museums and Menageries; American Philosophical Society; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Auctions
Date: 1841

Title: Medical notes, miscellaneous #3; Medical notes, misc. #3
Identifier(s): text:333091
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medicine; Medical education; University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: 1808-1809; 2019

Title: Memorial. To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled: The undersigned memorialists, members of the Maryland Institute and citizens of Baltimore generally...pray that an expedition of recovery be fitted out...[to search for Sir John Franklin and the lost crews of the Erebus and Terror].
Identifier(s): text:856; APSimg6715; Goodman Number: 328
Description: From the papers of John K. Kane, father of Elisha Kent Kane.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Maryland Institute
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; Grinnell Expedition; Discovery & exploration
Date: n.d.

Title: Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering: Henry LaBarre Jayne Lecture
Identifier(s): video:143; 2003_11_009
Description: Henry LaBarre Jayne Lecture; In the Henry La Barre Jayne Lecture, Dr. Vacanti talks about the field of regenerative medicine and tissue replacement, specifically: the need for the field and his own involvement within it.
Subject: History of Science; Tissue culture; Regenerative medicine; Stem cells; Henry La Barre Jayne Lecture; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2003-11-15