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Title: By the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. ...To Horatio T. Austin, Esq., C.B., captain of Her Majesty's Ship "Resolute," in charge of an expedition to the Arctic Sea
Identifier(s): text:835; APSimg6716; Goodman Number: 317
Description: Copy of Austin's military orders to search the Arctic Sea for the missing ships, Erebus and Terror, under the command of Sir John Franklin (see also Goodman #314). Signed in type by F. T. Baring, M. F. F. Berkeley, and J. Parker. ; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Great Britain. Admiralty
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; Arctic regions; Discovery & exploration; Grinnell Expedition
Date: 1850

Title: Gentlemen, I thank you for the honor you do me in the favor of this visit; and I will endeavor to explain to you in as few words as possible, my design in forming this museum, and the motive which induced me to request you, gentlemen, to take on yourselves the trouble of becoming visitors and directors of it
Identifier(s): text:1749; APSimg6523; Goodman Number: 70; 973 C683 No. 358
Description: Describes purpose and present state of Peale's Museum. Peale's attempt to create a public institution of his museum began with the creation of a board of "visitors" or trustees who were to initially provide advice and financial support, and later completely oversee the museum's operation. Signed in type by Charles Willson Peale.
Creator: Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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; Specimens; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778
Date: 1792

Title: Vaughan, Benjamin to Benjamin Franklin, 1782 January 09; Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835. to Benjamin Franklin
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:11058
Description: Benjamin Vaughan writes to Benjamin Franklin. He sends a number of papers including on on fair rings, on the "inflammation" of candles, and another on the riots during the Protestant petitions. Vaughan mentions that he is about to publish a response to "systems connected with atheism." He writes about some letters and other matters related to John Laurens and, perhaps, Henry Laurens, West India, and the bearer of the letter, Mr. Courtauld.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Political Philosophy; Social networks--18th century; Science--History--18th century; Atheism--History; Laurens, John, 1754-1782; Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792
Date: 1782-01-09; 2022

Title: Honor to Dr. Kane
Identifier(s): text:833; APSimg6713; Goodman Number: 323
Description: Resolutions of the Arcana Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons to procure funds for erection of a monument to Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, the famed Arctic explorer.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Freemasons. Arcana Lodge, No. 246 (New York, N.Y.)
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; Monuments; Fund raising; Fraternal organizations
Date: ca. 1857

Title: The Natural History of Edward Lear
Identifier(s): video:1464
Description: Peck gives a lecture based on his work for his most recent book of the same title.; Natura History of Edward Lear. (David R. Godine, Publisher: 2016)
Subject: History of Science; Natural history illustrators, Great Britain, Biography; Natural history illustration; Artists, Great Britain, Biography; Poets, English, 19th century, Biography; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-11

Title: The Exploration of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt by NASA’s New Horizons Mission
Identifier(s): video:1454
Description: Hal Weavers gives an inspiring talk on the exploration of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. He talks about NASA's New Horizon's Mission to the Outer System.
Subject: History of Science; Kuiper Belt; Space flight to Pluto; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. New Horizons Mission; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-10

Title: From Sir John Richardson, C.B., Medical Inspector, on equipment for Arctic travelling. Haslar Hospital, Feb. 14th, 1853. In pursuance of the commands of My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, conveyed in your letter of the 12th instant, that I should make such remarks and suggestions, as my experience in Arctic travelling may enable me to do, for the information of Dr. Kane, of the United States Navy, appointed to the command of an expedition
Identifier(s): text:859; APSimg6720; Goodman Number: 330
Description: Includes recommendations on clothing, bedding, tents, weight of equipment, food, sledges, and guides. Sent to Rear Admiral, Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B. For other letters apparently solicted by the British Admiralty for Kane see Goodman #329, and #331-332.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865
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; Arctic regions; Discovery & exploration
Date: 1853

Title: Arduous and Delicate Task: Princess Dashkova, the Academy of Sciences, and the Taming of Natural Philosophy
Identifier(s): video:654; 2006_04_008
Description: Gordin talks about Princess Dashkova, the first women elected to the APS. The talk focuses on Dashkova's influence on the Northern Enlightenment.
Subject: History of Science; Philosophy, Modern, Russia, 18th century; Dashkova, E. R. (Ekaterina Romanovna), kni?a?gini?a?, 1743-1810; Imperatorskai?a? akademii?a? nauk (Russia); APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2006-04-27

Title: The Perfect Storm
Identifier(s): video:1157; 2013_04_008
Description: Richard A.F. Penrose Lecture; Professor Munk gives the R. A. F. Penrose Lecture. He discusses his career in oceanography and his love of the sea.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 157, No. 4 (December 2013), pp. 369-392;Podcast: https://www.amphilsoc.org/museum/exhibitions/great-talks-american-philosophical-society/long-history-climate-science
Subject: History of Science; Waves; Storms; Beaches; Ocean wave; Seas; Ocean tides; Great circles; Surfing; The R. A. F. Penrose Lecture; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2013-04-26

Title: Woolwich, Feb. 24, 1853. Sir, With reference to the letter which you addressed to me on the 12th of February, in respect to Dr. Kane's Arctic Expedition, I must limit the suggestions...to..."magnetic observations."
Identifier(s): text:840; APSimg6718; Goodman Number: 332
Description: Recommends use of Kater's azimuth compass and Fox's apparatus for the inclination and force. Sent to Rear Admiral, Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B. For three other documents solicited by the British Admiralty to aid Dr. Kane in his search see Goodman #329-331.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883
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; Arctic regions; Compasses; Discovery & exploration; Discovery & exploration
Date: 1853

Title: Public bequests. The following extracts from the will and codicils of the late Isaiah Thomas, L.L.D., of Worcester, (Mass.) shew the amount bequeathed by him for public purposes
Identifier(s): text:374; APSimg6520; Goodman Number: 59; 973 C683 No. 316
Description: Lists the following science-related organizations to which this printer and historian of printing bequeathed his estate at his death: American Antiquarian Society, Massachusetts General Hospital, American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Historical Society in the Commonwealth, New-York Historical Society, Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, Worcester Agricultural Society, Essex Historical Society. The bulk of Thomas' estate was left to American Antiquarian Society which he founded in 1812.
Creator: Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Thomas, Isaiah (1794-1831); Wills; American Antiquarian Society; American Philosophical Society
Date: 1831

Title: Faraday and Franklin
Identifier(s): video:628; 2006_04_002
Description: Dr. Thomas discusses the similarities between Faraday and Franklin, focusing on their inventions and the values of the two men.
Subject: History of Science; Scientists, History, 18th century; Scientists, History, 19th century; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2006-04-27

Title: To the public. The subscriber, intending to publish as account of his voyage from Charleston (S.C.) to the coast of Africa, and his travels when there, hereby solicits subscriptions
Identifier(s): text:693; APSimg6563; Goodman Number: 320
Description: Prospectus for a work published in 1797. Letter on reverse is from J. L. to [Benjamin Smith Barton], April 27, 1797. Signed in type by Joseph Hawkins.
Creator: Hawkins, Joseph, b. 1772
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: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Discovery & exploration; Ocean travel
Date: 1796

Title: Symposium: The Next Influenza Pandemic. Part 2.: The Past Is Never Dead. It’s Not Even Past: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Its Lessons
Identifier(s): video:1606
Description: John Barry gives a lecture regarding the 1918 Influenza Epidemic. He details how faulty public policy combined with poverty made for a particularly destructive pandemic.; Further reading: The Great Influenza: the story of the deadliest pandemic in history (New York : Penguin Books, 2018)
Subject: History of Science; Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919; Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919, United States; Medicine, United States, History, 20th century.; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2019-11-08

Title: The Franklin lifesaving and Arctic exploring expedition. The brilliant effort now making by Henry Grinnell...for the early departure of an expedition which he is fitting out for the Polar Seas, from his own private fortune, for the search and rescue of those who embarked in the exploring expedition which sailed from England under the command of Sir John Franklin, is worthy of every aid and facility which can be extended to so noble and praiseworthy an undertaking
Identifier(s): text:855; APSimg6722; Goodman Number: 318
Description: From the New York Municipal Gazette Extra. The first Grinnell expedition, financed by the New York merchant and philanthropist, Henry Grinnell, was commanded by Lt. Edwin J. DeHaven and included among its crew Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, who would later lead the second Grinnell expedition in search of Franklin.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Meriam, Ebenezer, 1794-1864
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; Arctic regions; Climate; Weather; Weather
Date: 1850

Title: Chemical Studies of Violence and Sex In and Beyond the World of Insects
Identifier(s): video:1113; 2011_11_005
Description: Dr. Meinwald gives the Henry LaBarre Jayne Memorial Lecture. He gives a short history lesson of the chemistry research behind the synthesis of quinine, among others.
Subject: History of Science; Chemistry, History; Quinine, History, 20th century; Purple foxglove; Chemical synthesis; Organic Chemistry; Henry LaBarre Jayne Memorial Lecture; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2011-11-17

Title: A Young Man from “Ultima Thule” Visits Jefferson: Alexander von Humboldt in Philadelphia and Washington
Identifier(s): video:1035; 2009_11_021
Description: Henry LaBarre Jayne Lecture; The Jayne Lecture on Alexander von Humboldt discusses his correspondence with Jefferson.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 155, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 247-262
Subject: History of Science; Slavery; Presidents; Mastodons; United States, History, 19th century; Politics; Physicians; Cartography; Spectacle; Fossil plants; Henry LaBarre Jayne Lecture; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2009-11-14

Title: Tyler, G. to Benjamin Smith Barton, 1808 May 6; Tyler, G.
Identifier(s): text:333665
Description: Tyler's letter is a lament over his brother's lack of success in medical school.
Creator: Tyler, G.et al
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Medicine; Medical education; Diseases; University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: 1808-05-06; 2019

Title: Peale's Museum, in the State House, Philadelphia. Admittance 25 cents.
Identifier(s): text:701; APSimg6581; Goodman Number: 72
Description: Broadside describing the layout of Peale's Museum and the collections, animals, and specimens within.
Creator: Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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: Museums and Menageries; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Galleries & museums
Date: 1813

Title: 2011 Jonathan E. Rhoads Lecture and Medal Ceremony: Books and Men, Redux
Identifier(s): video:1118; 2011_11_010
Description: Dr. Nuland receives the Rhoads medal and gives his lecture on how medicine is taught.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 158, No. 1 (March 2014), pp. 388-397
Subject: History of Science; Prizes, Societies; Surgeons; Medicine, History; Books, History; Medicine, Study and teaching, History, Sources; Jonathan E. Rhoads Lecture; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2011-11-18