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Title: Meteorological observations, 1842-1843
Identifier(s): text:346763
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: 1842-1843; 2021

Title: Symposium: Discoveries in Astronomy. Part III: The Discovery of Quasars.
Identifier(s): video:1000; 2009_11_005
Description: Maarten Schmidt talks about the discovery of quasars and the use of large optical telescopes.
Subject: History of Science; Red shift, Emission spectra, Quasars, Radio spectrum, Line spectra, Emission line stars, Telescopes, Wavelengths; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2009-11-12

Title: The officers and counsellrs [sic] of the American Philosophical Society, hold a stated meeting at their hall tomorrow evening at __ o'clock
Identifier(s): text:700; APSimg6575; Goodman Number: 13
Description: Manuscript date of June 25, 1812. Manuscript addition instructs the recipient, B[enjamin] S. Barton, to "please bring the tribute to the memory of J[ohn] B[ayard] S[mith]."
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; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; American Philosophical Society--Meetings
Date: 180_

Title: The classes for the different branches of education will be opened, the ensuing session, as follows.... Edinburgh College, September 12, 1810
Identifier(s): text:705; APSimg6579; Goodman Number: 86
Description: Among others, this broadside lists classes, scheduled meeting times, and instructors in medicine and botany. Signed in type by Andrew Duncan, junior secretary of the college.
Creator: University of Edinburgh
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: Education; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Universities & colleges; Teaching; Sciences
Date: 1810

Title: Proxy. I hereby constitute _____ to be my attorney, to deliberate and vote for me at a meeting of the stockholders of the Philadelphia Museum Company.... September _____, 1836.
Identifier(s): text:146; APSimg6418; Goodman Number: 74; 973 C683 No. 603
Description: A blank legal form for creating a proxy for a meeting of the stockholders of the Philadelphia Museum Company.
Creator: Philadelphia Museum
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Galleries & museums; Meetings; Voting; Peale’s Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1836

Title: On Sheet Ice Melt in a Warming Climate and What We Should Do About It
Identifier(s): video:1562
Description: Eric Rignor talks about the sea ice of the Antarctic and Greenland. How much is melting? What can we do about it?
Subject: History of Science; Climate change; Sea ice, Research, Antarctica; Sea ice, Research, Greenland Sea.; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2019-04-26

Title: Medical notes, miscellaneous #2; Medical notes, misc. #2
Identifier(s): text:333137
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medicine; Medical education; University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: 1814-11-14; 2019

Title: Monsieur, La Commission centrale de la Société de Géographie a décidé dans sa séance du 22 septembre 1836, qu'il serait formé au
Identifier(s): text:604; APSimg6732; Goodman Number: 78
Description: Received by the American Philosophical Society on November 1, 1836. Circular letter containing the autograph signature of Roux de Rochelle, president of the Central Commission. Proposes the construction of a geographical museum where objects of natural history, art, and antiquity can be housed.; Located in folder: Rec'd 1836 November 1.
Creator: Société de géographie (France)
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: Museums and Menageries; Galleries & museums; Geography; Natural history
Date: [1836]

Title: From the Utica Herald, January 27, 1891. Oneida Historical Society. Standing committees appointed--relics to be sent to the World's Fair
Identifier(s): text:1019; APSimg6619; Goodman Number: 40
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. 25.
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; Antiquities; Exhibitions; Indians of North America
Date: 1891

Title: Society for Social Responsibility in Science. Newsletter
Identifier(s): text:350991
Subject: Society for Social Responsibility in Science SSRS newsletter; Society for Social Responsibility in Science; Science--Moral and ethical aspects; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Buzzati-Traverso, Adriano A.; Reynolds, Earle L.; Benfey, O. Theodor (Otto Theodor), 1925-; Paschkis, V. (Victor); Levins, Richard A.; Davidon, William C.; Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005; Steenbeck, Max, 1904-1981; Hytten, Eyvind; Polster, Norman E.; Ackerman, Eugene, 1920-2014
Date: 1957-1967

Title: Training a New Generation of Biologists: The Genome-Enabled Field Biologist
Identifier(s): video:1027; 2009_11_013
Description: Dr. Baldwin talks about biology training programs and the split between ecology departments and biology departments.
Subject: History of Science; Ecological genetics; Flowers, Nectar; Genes; Chemical ecology; Metabolites; Transcriptional regulatory elements; Natural history; Phenotypic traits; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2009-11-13

Title: Kane's funeral march. Composed and respectfully inscribed to the memory of Elisha Kent Kane, M.D., U.S.N. by William H. Shuster
Identifier(s): text:327; APSimg6556; Goodman Number: 333; 973 C683 No. 522
Description: Compostion written in honor of this famed physician and Arctic explorer. Cover page includes illustrated profile of Kane.
Creator: Shuster, William H.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Musical notation; Funeral rites & ceremonies; Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857
Date: 1859

Title: Skeleton of the mammoth is now to be seen at the museum, in a separate room. For admittance to which, 50 cents; to the museum, as usual, 25 cents
Identifier(s): text:365; APSimg6733; Goodman Number: 71; 973 C683 No. 583
Description: Apparently issued in conjunction with the opening of the "mammoth room" in Peale's Museum, December 24, 1801. Peale exhumed his fossilized specimen from marl pits in New York with financial aid (in the form of a no-interest loan) from the American Philosophical Society.
Creator: Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Natural history; Mammoths; Fossils; Paleontology
Date: ca. 1801

Title: Rules and orders of the Linnean Society
Identifier(s): text:698; APSimg6564; Goodman Number: 28
Description: Note at bottom of the document indicates that the society "will consider themselves highly indebted" to anyone sending "dissertations, specimens, books, drawings, or other communications; particularly such as tend to illustrate the natural history of Great Britain and Ireland; addressed to Dr. [James Edward] Smith." Smith, one of the three founders of the Linnean Society, served as its president for forty years.
Creator: Linnean Society of London
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; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778; Organizational rules
Date: ca. 1788-1795

Title: Benjamin Franklin and Erasable Writing
Identifier(s): video:636; 2006_04_004
Description: Dr. Stallybrass starts with Franklin's table of virtues and how it led to his invention of "erasable writing."
Subject: History of Science; Scientists, History, 18th century; Inventions, History, 18th century; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, Views on conduct of life; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2006-04-27

Title: List of the [members of the] Linnean Society, 1798
Identifier(s): text:691; APSimg6580; Goodman Number: 29
Description: Lists honorary members (4), fellows (173), foreign members (76), and associates (34) of this famed natural history society begun by James Edward Smith, Samuel Goodenough, and Thomas Marsham.
Creator: Linnean Society of London
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; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778; Organizations
Date: 1798

Title: The Magic Inside Your Cell Phone and Its Broad Societal Impact
Identifier(s): video:1512
Description: The Herman Heine Goldstine Lecture discusses not only the physical make-up of the cell phone, but how it has changed society.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 161, No. 2 (June 2017) pp. 138-154.
Subject: History of Science; Cell phones, Social aspects, United States; Technology and civilization, United States; Herman Heine Goldstine Lecture; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-04-28

Title: Medical lecture notes vol. 2, 1864-1865; Medical notes - University of Pennsylvania - H.B. Hare #2
Identifier(s): text:332116
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medicine--Study and teaching--History--19th century; Medical education; Medical sciences; Hare, Horace Binney, 1843-1879
Date: 1864-1865; 2020

Title: Dunglison, Robley to Harriet Clark Hare, 1858 October 1
Identifier(s): text:303520
Subject: Science--United States--19th century; Death notices; Chemists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia; Education; Chemistry; Death; Smithsonian Institution; Jefferson Medical College; Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869; Hare, Robert, 1781-1858
Date: 1858-10-01; 2020

Title: Davis, Isaac to Benjamin Smith Barton, 1810 March 12; Davis, Isaac
Identifier(s): text:333431
Creator: Davis, Isaac, 1787-1814et al
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Medical education; Medical students; Examination; Commencement ceremonies; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: 1810-03-12; 2019