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Title: Proposals, by Abraham Small, no. 165, Chestnut Street, 2nd door below Fifth Street, Philadelphia, for publishing by subscription, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge. New series--volume II
Identifier(s): text:1417; APSimg6424; Goodman Number: 89; 973 C683 No. 503
Description: On obverse, includes manuscript addition apparently indicating several of the subscribers: "David Hosack of New York, [Edm.-François] Jomard of Paris, the 'editor of the Am. journal of medical sciences,' Edward Everett of Boston, H. Niles of Baltimore, and [Severin] Lorich."; Broadside contains partial tear at top of page.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society
Date: 1823

Title: Prospectus du Cercle des Philadelphes, Établi au Cap
Identifier(s): text:1136; local: APSimg6617; local: 25
Description: Prospectus of a publication on the scientific society Cercle des Philadelphes.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1086, no. 11.
Creator: Cercle des Philadelpheset al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Science
Date: ca. 1784

Title: Sir-- At a meeting of citizens called in this city, a few months since, to consider the practicability and expediency of establishing a National Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the undersigned were appointed a committee to mature a constitution, and to make report of the same, at a subsequent meeting. ...A meeting will be held on Monday evening, October 17th, at 7 o'clock in Clinton Hall, when a report of the proceedings of the committee will be presented...and a society organized. ...New-York, Oct. 14, 1836
Identifier(s): text:1758; APSimg6397; Goodman Number: 36; 973 C683 No. 698
Description: Typed invitation to meet and form an organization: the National Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Signed in type by William A. Duer, Gorham D. Abbot, Peter G. Stuyvesant, John Knox, Samuel Ward, Henry Cary, William Bard, John Proudfit, and John T. Gilchrist.
Creator: National Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Invitations; Organizations
Date: 1836

Title: Constitution of the West-Point Lyceum of Natural History
Identifier(s): text:103; APSimg6399; Goodman Number: 62; 973 C683 No. 735
Description: Constitution of a society comprised of members from the United States Military Academy who are concerned with the advancement of natural history, the West-Point Lyceum of Natural History.
Creator: West-Point Lyceum of Natural History
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Constitutions; Natural history; Organizations; Military academies
Date: [ca. 1825]

Title: Sir, A number of the citizens of this state have recently formed a society under the title of the Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina
Identifier(s): text:114; APSimg6407; Goodman Number: 30; 973 C683 No. 80
Description: Circular letter, originally sent to John Vaughan, requesting the receiver to aid the society with observations and discoveries and to communicate this request to others. Especially entreats reader to forward natural history specimens in order that the society might augment the holdings of its newly-founded museum. Autograph signature of Stephen Elliot, president of the society.
Creator: Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Natural history; Organizations; Galleries & museums
Date: ca. 1813

Title: Atto di aggiudicazione dei premi d'onore del concorso 1892-93. Modena, 10 Febbraio 1895
Identifier(s): text:147; APSimg6409; Goodman Number: 50; 973 C683 No. 479
Description: Signed in type by the academy's president, Pietro Riccardi and its secretary general, Giorgio Ferrari Moreni.
Creator: Reale Accademia di scienze, lettere e d'arti di Modena
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Educational organizations
Date: 1895

Title: Notice sur la séance publique du Cercle des Philadelphes, tenue le 15 août 1788. [Page 2:] Programme des prix proposes par le Cercle des Philadelphes
Identifier(s): text:1156; local: APSimg6618; local: 27
Description: Lists several prizes proposed by the society, including: a means of manufacturing paper resistent to insects, a method of determining the point of "lessive" in the manufacture of sugar, the most efficient use of slave labor in the cultivation of sugar, a discussion of the maladies produced by different species of worms and fish, and a method of preventing insects from infesting the Royal grainhouses.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1101, no. 15.
Creator: Cercle des Philadelpheset al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Natural history; Organizations; Awards
Date: 1788

Title: By order of the president. Sir, The committee (to whom the consideration of the papers communicated to the society at their weekly meetings is referred...) having been appointed to meet at the society's house in Crane-Court, Fleetstreet
Identifier(s): text:816; APSimg6675; Goodman Number: 54
Description: Invitation to attend a meeting of a committe of the Royal Society, London. Includes autograph signature of Emanuel Mendes da Costa, dated July 13, 1767.
Creator: Royal Society (Great Britain)
Source: Franklin-Bache Papers (Mss.B.F85.ba); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85ba-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Meetings; Organizations
Date: 1767

Title: Geleerde en Andere Genootshappen
Identifier(s): text:599; APSimg6600; Goodman Number: 22
Description: Page 1 lists officers and members of the publication and museum committees. Page 2 gives a list of the 77 members of the society. Manuscript addition indicates that the document lists "committees and members in 1818."; Left hand portion of document missing.
Creator: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen
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; Natural history; Organizations
Date: ca. 1818

Title: Monsieur, Le Musée de Paris ayant transporté ses séances au local de M. [Jean-François] Pilatre de Rozier....A l'hôtel du Musée de Paris...le 28 août 1783
Identifier(s): text:85; APSimg6396; Goodman Number: 32; 973 C683 No. 570
Description: Sent to Benjamin Franklin while he was in Passy, France. Manuscript signature of [Jean-François] Cailhava [d'Estendoux], president of the society.
Creator: Musée de Paris
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Galleries & museums; Invitations
Date: 1783

Title: (From the Utica Morning Herald, Jan. 13, 1872 [sic; should be 1892?].) Historical. Annual Meeting of the Oneida Society. Reports presented and officers elected--an able address by S. N. D. North of Boston on "The evolution of the factory system."
Identifier(s): text:1021; APSimg6621; Goodman Number: 42
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. 20.
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; Factories; Capitalism; Industrialization
Date: 1892?

Title: Annual Election of Officers and Councilors, 1896...[Obverse] Officers for 1896
Identifier(s): text:116; APSimg6404; Goodman Number: 20; 973 C683 No. 610
Description: Stated meetings of the officers and council [and]...society [as well as the]...stated business of the meeting. ...Officiating secretaries and curators. [Obverse side:] Officers for 1896. [and]...standing committees.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Organizations
Date: 1896

Title: "The field is the world." London, May 18, 1860
Identifier(s): text:142; APSimg6411; Goodman Number: 61; 973 C683 No. 591
Description: List of resolutions of the Universal Scientific Conference Includes a "list of [20] names annexed to the programme printed in Edinburgh, Feb. 1860, continued." Signed in type by G. Dibley, secretary, pro tempore.
Creator: Universal Scientific Congress
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Meetings; Organizations; Resolutions
Date: 1860

Title: Resolutions in reference to daylight saving adopted by the American Philosophical Society
Identifier(s): text:87; APSimg6393; Goodman Number: 21; 973 C683 No. 612
Description: Resolutions in reference to daylight saving adopted by the American Philosophical Society. Urges enactment of U. S. House Bill No. 2609 and Senate Bill No. 1854, both daylight savings bills.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Resolutions
Date: n.d.

Title: Constitution of the Paterson Philosophical Society
Identifier(s): text:321; APSimg6519; Goodman Number: 48; 973 C683 No. 604
Description: Constitution of the Paterson Philosophical Society.Lists fifteen articles of the constitution of the society, organized January 15, 1827 and disbanded by December 1839. Signed in type by A. H. Freeman.
Creator: Paterson Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Natural history; Organizations; Organizational rules
Date: 1827

Title: (From the Utica Morning Herald, April 13, 1892). Oneida Historical Society. Business session held yesterday afternoon--a paper by General C. W. Darling on "Pre-historic archaeology of America" read last evening
Identifier(s): text:1020; APSimg6623; Goodman Number: 44
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. 28.
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; Archaeological sites; Antiquities
Date: 1892

Title: Philosophical Hall, Philadelphia, (Circular.) Sir, the American Philosophical Society have always considered the antiquity, changes, and present state of their country as primary objects of their research; and with a view to facilitate such discoveries, a permanent committee has been established, among whose duties the following have been recommended as requiring particular attention.
Identifier(s): text:1341; APSimg6403; Goodman Number: 12; 973 C683 No. 106
Description: Gives the following as members of the committee: Thomas Jefferson, James Wilkinson, George Turner, Caspar Wistar, Adam Seybert, C[harles] W[illson] Peale, and Jon[athan] Williams. Circular letter signed by Jon[athan] Williams, chairman of the committee.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Committees; Natural history
Date: 1797 ?

Title: Programme of organization of the Smithsonian Institution. (Presented to the Board of Regents, Dec. 8, 1847.)
Identifier(s): text:832; APSimg6710; Goodman Number: 57
Description: Includes an introduction giving "general considerations which should serve as a guide in adopting a plan of organization," as well as "details of the plan to increase knowledge," "details of the plan for diffusing knowledge," and "plan of organization...providing for the two modes of increasing and diffusing knowledge."; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Smithsonian Institution
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; Smithsonian Institution; Organizational rules; Natural history
Date: 1847

Title: Notice. Books, specimens, or communications sent from foreign countries to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, should be addressed to _____ London
Identifier(s): text:608; APSimg6601; Goodman Number: 53
Description: Blank filled in in manuscript: "Mr. Benjamin Bromley, British Museum in." Sent from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to the American Philosophical Society on December 28 1836, with manuscript note attached.
Creator: Royal Society of Edinburgh
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; Natural history; Organizations
Date: ca. 1836

Title: Members
Identifier(s): text:83; APSimg6394; Goodman Number: 24; 973 C683 No. 660
Description: Member list of club. Lists the following as members of the club: C. S. Boker, J. Darrach, Franklin B. Gowen, Isaac Hinckley, W[illia]m Hunt, J. H. Hutchinson, J. L. Le Conte, J. Leidy, S. Weir Mitchell, J. Cheston Morris, J. H. Packard, R. A. F. Penrose, Aubrey H. Smith, Cha[rle]s E. Smith, Caspar Wister, Walter F. Atlee, W. A. Hammond, and Samuel Powell.
Creator: Biological Club
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations
Date: n.d.