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Title: A great curiosity. There is a man at present at Mr. Leech's Tavern, the sign of the black horse, in Market-Street ...
Identifier(s): text:985; local: APSimg6690; local: 342
Description: This copy was found pasted into Benjamin Rush's commonplace book and describes a man afflicted with vitiligo, a relatively common familial disease in which areas of depigmentation appear on the skin. In its advanced stages, the depigmentation may spread over the entire body.; Pasted onto pg. 92.
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Miscellaneous; Broadside Subdivision:; Rush, Benjamin, 1745-1813; Cancer; Skin; Human curiosities
Date: 1796

Title: [Fragment missing] and real estate. C. J. Wolbert & Co. invite attention to their sale which will take place on Thursday evening next[,] the 5th August, 1841
Identifier(s): text:130; APSimg6419; Goodman Number: 80; 973 C683 No. 187
Description: Advertisement for an auction. Item number seven to be auctioned is the Philadelphia Museum (see also Goodman #79).
Creator: Wolbert, C. J. & Company, Auctioneers
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Auctions; Peale’s Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1841

Title: Symposium on Space Science and Engineering: Present and Future. Part I: The Present and Future of Space Science and NASA.
Identifier(s): video:1056; 2010_04_019
Description: Paul Hertz talks about NASA's robotics science programs and how they will continue NASA's mission to study and explore space.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol 158, No. 4 (December 2014), pp. 329-353
Subject: History of Science; Spacecraft launching; Planetary orbits; Saturnian satellites; Robotics; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2010-04-24

Title: Engineering Biology for Drugs and Fuels
Identifier(s): video:1028; 2009_11_014
Description: Dr. Keasling uses the example of Malaria to discuss how to engineer biology to fight diseases.
Subject: History of Science; Artemisinins; Microorganisms; Antimalarials; Escherichia coli; Ethanol; Biochemical pathways; Malaria; Diesel fuels; Molecules; Yeasts; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2009-11-13

Title: Medical notes, miscellaneous #1; Medical notes, misc. #1
Identifier(s): text:332737
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medicine; Medical education; University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: 1802-1813; 2019

Title: "The Papers Have Blown Me Up Sky High!": John James Audubon (APS 1831), America's First Celebrity Scientist
Identifier(s): video:1587
Description: Gregory Nobles talks about John Audubon and his connection to the APS. He describes Audubon's path to celebrity.
Subject: History of Science; Scientists, United States, History, 19th century; Audubon, John James, 1785-1851; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2019-04-25

Title: Research Issues Related to Combat Casualty Care
Identifier(s): video:580; 2005_11_006
Description: Dr. Holcomb presents his research of military casualties and the considerations that doctors must take while in battle.
Subject: History of Science; Epidemiology, United States, Armed Services; Military casualties, United States; Military casualties, Research; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2005-11-11

Title: Williamstown, Mass., April, __ 1867. Dear Sir: The Lyceum of Natural History of Williams College proposes to make a strictly scientific expedition to South America. The objects are: astronomical observations, original research into the physical geography of the Andes, and a large collection of the fauna and flora of that prolific region.
Identifier(s): text:1779; APSimg6512; Goodman Number: 326; 973 C683 No. 608
Description: Requests subscriptions for the amount of $1000 for which is promised in exchange a complete set of duplicate specimens collected. Subscriptions to be sent to Prof. Albert Hopkins. Signed in type by Wallace Freeman, Ja[me]s H. Canfield and J. Boyd Thacher, members of the financial committee. Page 3 includes recommendations by Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution (including a promise to loan scientific instruments from that institution) and C. H. Davis of the U. S. Naval Observatory.
Creator: Williams College. Lyceum of Natural History
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Natural history; Scientific expeditions; Specimens; Stargazing; Geography
Date: 1867

Title: Bradford, Thomas to the Medical Professors in the University of Pennsylvania, 1804 July 2; Bradford, Thomas
Identifier(s): text:332794
Creator: Bradford, Thomas, 1781-1851et al
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medical education; Publishing; Booksellers and bookselling; Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853; Carey, Mathew, 1788-1794
Date: 1804-07-02; 2019

Title: SYMPOSIUM: Current Issues in Agriculture. Part III: Treaties, Intellectual Property, Market Power and Food in the Developing World.
Identifier(s): video:428; 2004_11_016
Description: Dr. Herdt gives a lecture on how treaties, intellectual property, market power, and food interact. He focuses on how attempts to help farmers in "developing" countries do the opposite.
Subject: History of Science; Agricultural biotechnology; Food supply; Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2004-11-13

Title: Premiums. The American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge, in order the more effectually to answer the ends of their institution, have agreed to appropriate, annually, a part of their funds to be disposed of in premiums to the authors of the best performances, inventions, or improvements, relative to certain specific subjects of useful knowledge. The following premiums, therefore, are now proposed by the society.
Identifier(s): text:1770; APSimg6516; Goodman Number: 11; 973 C683 No. 251
Description: Includes information on seven premiums offered by the society for the best entries in the following categories: system of liberal education, method for computing longitude by lunar observation, improvement of a ship's pump, improvement of stoves, method of preventing premature decay of peach trees, experimental treatise on vegetable dyes, and improvement of lamps. Also includes a notice of the conditions of the Magellanic premium. Note at base of this broadside requests printers of "newspapers and other periodical publications, in the United States and in Europe" to "republish the above information." Signed in type by W[illiam] Barton and John Bleakley, secretaries of the American Philosophical Society.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Awards; Education; Longitude; Inventions
Date: 1796

Title: Verzeichniss derjenigen Werkzeuge, welche in der mechanischen Werkstätte Utzschneider, Liebherr et Werner in München um nachstehende Preise verfertigt werden
Identifier(s): text:331; APSimg6555; Goodman Number: 312; 973 C683 No. 363
Description: Catalog issued by German optical instrument makers. Signed in type by J[oseph] Utzschneider.
Creator: Utzschneider, Joseph von, 1763-1840
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: 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: City Museum. Callowhill Street, below Fifth. Another great bill. [List of attractions]
Identifier(s): text:371; APSimg6521; Goodman Number: 66; 973 C683 No. 520
Description: The many attractions advertised in the broadside include: a magnetic ship and magnetic batteries; natural history specimens, all "scientifically prepared and arranged"; an Indian cabinet; a collection of paintings and statues; as well as song, dance, drama, and a show by Tom Thumb. Lists Ashton & Company as the proprietors of the museum, M. W. Dickeson as professor of natural sciences, W[illia]m T.W. Dickeson as curator, John E. McDonough as stage manager, and J. J. Egan as scenic artist. Ill.: facade of the museum.
Creator: City Museum of Philadelphia
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Natural history; Galleries & museums; Theatrical productions
Date: 1854

Title: 1858. [List of] stated meetings [and] ...stated business [for the year]. ...Officiating secretaries and curators
Identifier(s): text:842; APSimg6711; Goodman Number: 15
Description: Calendar of meetings for the American Philsophical Society for the year 1858.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: American Philosophical 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; American Philosophical Society--Meetings; American Philosophical Society
Date: 1858

Title: Symposium: Action Not Words. Part IV
Identifier(s): video:962; 2008_11_010
Description: Warren Evans of the World Bank discusses the effect of climate change on the world's poorest populations. How the financial crisis, the food crisis, the energy crisis, the poverty crisis and the climate crisis all interact to create tremendously deplorable conditions for the poorest communitees in the poorest countries.
Subject: History of Science; Climatic changes, Social aspects; Climatic changes, Government policy; Climatic changes, Economic aspects; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2008-11-14

Title: Medical notes, miscellaneous #5; Medical notes, misc. #5
Identifier(s): text:333257
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medicine; Medical education; University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: 1810-1811; 2019

Title: Plan de souscription, pour le graphometre universel, nouvel instrument mathématique, de l'invention du Sr. A. G. Eckhardt, membre de la Société Royale de Londres
Identifier(s): text:782; APSimg6687; Goodman Number: 299
Description: A machine to "mesure & dessine généralement tous les objets visibles." Also advertises two volumes of plates, the drawings of which were made as samples of the various uses to which the "graphometre" might be applied.; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, no. 76. Oversized.
Creator: Eckhardt, Antoine George, ca. 1740-ca. 1810
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: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Scientific apparatus; Mathematics
Date: n.d.

Title: University of Pennsylvania medical professor resolution; U. of P. medical professor's resolution
Identifier(s): text:332791
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medicine; Medical education; University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: 1803-02-09; 2019

Title: Resolution to be considered at the meeting of the American Philosophical Society, to be held on the 3d of March, 1815
Identifier(s): text:703; APSimg6576; Goodman Number: 14
Description: Proposed resolution repealing the twelfth fundamental law of the society thereby reducing the number of classes under which it was organized from six to four, including: physical and mathematical class; class of useful arts and improvements; historical, statistical, and economical class; and philological and literary class.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
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; American Philosophical Society; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Organizational rules
Date: 1815