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Title: Proposals for publishing by subscription, dedicated, by permission, to the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company, Illustrations of Indian zoology, consisting of coloured plates of new or hitherto unfigured Indian animals, from the collection of Major-General [Thomas] Hardwicke...selected and arranged by John Edward Gray
Identifier(s): text:1784; APSimg6701; Goodman Number: 224; 973 C683 No. 387
Description: Prospectus for a two volume work (1830-34) from this prolific naturalist who between 1824 and 1863 published 497 papers on scientific subjects. In 1840 Gray succeeded J. G. Children as keeper of the zoological department of the British Museum, a post he kept until three months before his death.; Duplicate copy in John Edward Gray Papers (B G784).
Creator: Gray, John Edward (1800-1875)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Animals; Zoology
Date: ca. 1830

Title: Journal of morphology
Identifier(s): text:300; APSimg6485; Goodman Number: 231; 973 C683 No. 204
Description: Prospectus for this journal of animal morphology founded in 1887 and devoted to "embryological, anatomical, and histological subjects." Whitman, a biologist who made valuable contributions in embryology, comparative anatomy, taxonomy, evolution, and animal behavior, held a variety of posts in museums and academic institutions during his lifetime.
Creator: Whitman, Charles Otis, 1842-1910
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Zoology
Date: ca. 1887

Title: Just arrived!!! A great serpent, from America
Identifier(s): text:317; APSimg6532; Goodman Number: 225; 973 C683 No. 744
Description: Advertises the exhibition of a "sea-serpent" captured near the coast of Cape Ann Harbor. At first glance it appears that the serpent is 50 feet long, but closer examination of this carefully worded document reveals that the animal on exhibit is merely the "same breed" as the "great one" which was able to elude its would-be captors.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Specimens; Animal shows
Date: ca. 1818

Title: Latham's History of birds, with etchings by the author, accurately coloured. ...A complete history of birds, down to the present time
Identifier(s): text:306; APSimg6483; Goodman Number: 226; 973 C683 No. 246
Description: Prospectus for a work from John Latham, a British physician who retired from practice in 1796 to devote his full energies to the study which he had enjoyed from his youth, ornithology. His History of birds was published in 11 volumes, 1821-28.
Creator: Latham, John, 1740-1837
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Ornithology; Birds
Date: [ca. 1821]

Title: Directions for taking care of the cochineal insects while at sea / Soins a observer pour la Conservation des Insects Cochenille a bord des Vaisseaux Sur Mer
Identifier(s): text:1191; local: APSimg6643; local: 213
Description: Detailed instructions on shipping this economically valuable insect to the "settlements in India." In English and French.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1198, no. 5.
Creator: Anderson, James, 1739-1808et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Insects; Dyeing; Ocean travel
Date: 1789

Title: Popular lectures on natural history, ...as lecture committees repeatedly ask for notices of the press regarding the lectures of Professor Morse, the following are selected from hundreds
Identifier(s): text:584; APSimg6647; Goodman Number: 228a
Description: Numerous newspaper testimonials attesting to Morse's skill as a lecturer of natural history. After studying conchology under Louis Agassiz at the Lawrence Scientific School, Morse went on to become an active zoologist, popular lecturer, and beginning in 1880, director of the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts. Includes testimonial in German. See also Goodman #228 (973 C683, no. 497).; Item call number: 920 Pam., no. 349.
Creator: Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925
Source: Pamphlet Collection (920 Pam.);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Public speaking; Zoology
Date: n.d.

Title: Proposals for publishing by subscription, a work on the fish of North America, with plates, drawn and coloured from nature. By C. A. Lesueur
Identifier(s): text:567; APSimg6664; Goodman Number: 227
Description: Prospectus for a work on the fish of North America. Intended for a broad audience, subscribers would be able to purchase volumes from the series at forty cents a piece.
Creator: Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846
Source: Pamphlet Collection (597 L56p);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Fish
Date: 1827

Title: Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques, tant des espèces qu'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus
Identifier(s): text:338; APSimg6482; Goodman Number: 221; 973 C683 No. 86
Description: Prospectus for work begun by Jean-Baptiste de Férussac and completed by his son, André-Etienne, and G.-P. Deshayes. The last fascicle of the work was not published until 1851.
Creator: Férussac, André-Etienne-Just-Pascal-Joseph-François d'Audebard, baron de, 1786-1836
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Marine biology; Aquatic animals
Date: [ca. 1819]

Title: Librairie de Pichon et Didier. Cours de l'histoire naturelle des Mammifères, professé au Jardin du Roi par M. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, les lundis, mercredis et vendredis. Recueilli par une Société de Sténographes, revu par le professeur, et publié par leçons. Prospectus.
Identifier(s): text:1070; local: APSimg6646; local: 222
Description: Prospectus for the publication of a lecture series of Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire who in 1793 became professor of zoology at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris at the young age of 21. When the Jardin was reorganized in June of 1793, Geoffroy was named professor of quadrupeds, cetaceans, birds, reptiles, and fish.; Item call number: Pam. v. 105, no. 20.
Creator: Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne, 1772-1844et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Mammals; Public speaking
Date: 1793

Title: Discovery of viviparous fish in Louisiana. New Orleans, Nov. 1, 1854
Identifier(s): text:559; APSimg6645; Goodman Number: 220
Description: Reprinted from the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal.; Item call number: 590 Pam. v. 14, no. 2.
Creator: Dowler, Bennet, 1797-1879
Source: Zoological Pamphlet Collection (590 Pam. v. 14);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Fish
Date: 1854

Title: Histoire naturelle économique et politique des poissons utilies; précédée de celle des morses, des phoques et des cétacées
Identifier(s): text:595; APSimg6612; Goodman Number: 229
Description: Prospectus for a work published as Histoire générale des pêches anciennes et modernes dans les mers et les fluves des duex continens (Paris, 1815). Noël de la Morinière's life-long study of fish, both from the viewpoint of their natural history and economic value, earned him the offices of inspector of navigation and inspector general of oceanic fishing in France.; Located in folder: Morniere to Thomas Jefferson. 1813 February 5.
Creator: Morinière, Noël de la, 1765-1822
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/a/apsmc.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Fish; Aquatic animals; Fishing industry
Date: 1812

Title: First Book of Zoology. By Edward S. Morse, Ph. D., Formerly Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology in Bowdoin College.
Identifier(s): text:352; APSimg6484; Goodman Number: 228; 973 C683 No. 497
Description: Advertises zoological textbook for school age children published in 1875. After studying conchology under Louis Agassiz at the Lawrence Scientific School, Morse went on to become an active zoologist, popular lecturer (see Goodman #228a), and beginning in 1880, director of the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts.; Includes four specimen illustrations.
Creator: Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Zoology; Animals
Date: [ca. 1875]

Title: Iconografia della fauna Italica di Carlo Luciano Bonaparte Principe di Musignano. Prospetto
Identifier(s): text:383; APSimg6480; Goodman Number: 217; 973 C683 No. 270
Description: Prospectus for a work by this ornithologist and nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte who came to America in 1823 to research a supplement to Alexander Wilson's American ornithology. Returning to Europe at the age of 25, Bonaparte went on to publish numerous ornithological studies and other more general zoological works like the one advertised in this prospectus.
Creator: Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Animals; Zoology
Date: 1832

Title: Libraire de Méquignon-Marvis, Éditeur...Iconographie et histoire naturelle des coléoptères d'Europe...Prospectus...Paris, ce 10 mars 1829
Identifier(s): text:1071; local: APSimg6644; local: 218
Description: Considered as one of the great coleopterists of his time, Dejean claims in this prospectus that Iconographie et histoire naturelle des coléoptères was begun as a collaborative effort between he and Pierre-André Latreille. When Latreille was no longer able to contribute to the undertaking, Dejean obtained the services of Boisduval to complete the work. Lists Carey and Lea as the Philadelphia location to subscribe to the book.; Item call number: Pam. v. 105, no. 23.
Creator: Dejean, Pierre François Marie Auguste, comte, 1780-1845 Boisduval, Jean Alphonse, 1801-1879et al; Dejean, Pierre François Marie Auguste, comte, 1780-1845 Boisduval, Jean Alphonse, 1801-1879et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Beetles
Date: 1829

Title: Proposals, by Edward Poole, for publishing, by subscription, a supplement to the "History of animated nature, by Oliver Goldsmith." Animals peculiar to North America, by John D. Godman, M.D.
Identifier(s): text:294; APSimg6544; Goodman Number: 223; 973 C683 No. 99
Description: Prospectus for an American supplement to Goldsmith's History of animated nature by John D. Godman, physician and naturalist whose American natural history (Philadelphia, 1826-28) is considered one of the first original American publications on mammals.
Creator: Godman, John D. (John Davidson), 1794-1830
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Animals; Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774; Zoology
Date: [1824]

Title: The accompanying portrait of John James Audubon is presented by the Audubon Monument Committees to every contributor of one dollar or more to the monument fund
Identifier(s): text:346; APSimg6479; Goodman Number: 215; 973 C683 No. 716
Description: Signed in type by Tho[ma]s Egleston, chairman of the Audubon monument committees, and N. L. Britton, secretary and treasurer. Includes an illustration of the Audubon monument.
Creator: Audubon Monument Committees
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Audubon, John James, 1785-185; Monuments & memorials
Date: n.d.

Title: To be seen at _____ an extraordinary animal, supposed to be a ranging tiger or cougar; it was caught in the town of Sidney, and is allowed by those gentlemen who have seen it, to be one of the most surprising animals ever seen in this part of the country
Identifier(s): text:1597; APSimg6648; Goodman Number: 230
Description: Small broadside advertising the exhibition of an unidentified large, wild cat.; Item call number: 308 Pam., no. 105.
Source: Pamphlet Collection (308 Pam.);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Wild cats; Animal shows
Date: n.d.

Title: Important to naturalists, scientific institutions, &c. ...Just published, price one guinea to subscribers--thirty shillings to non-subscribers, The natural history of the order Cetacea, and the oceanic inhabitants of the Arctic regions.
Identifier(s): text:320; APSimg6481; Goodman Number: 219; 973 C683 No. 160
Description: Advertisement for a work published in 1834 by this London physician and naturalist. Originally enclosed in a letter (APS Archives; March 19, 1835) from the Verulam Philosophical Society of London of which Dewhurst was the president.
Creator: Dewhurst, H. W. (Henry William)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Marine biology; Arctic regions
Date: [ca. 1835]

Title: Proposals for printing, by subscription, Elements of zoology or outlines of the natural history of animals. ...Conditions, &c.
Identifier(s): text:704; APSimg6562; Goodman Number: 216
Description: This work, originally intended as companion volume to Barton's popular Elements of botany (1803), was apparently never published under this title. A work of wider scope, A discourse on some of the prinicipal desiderata in natural history, based on a lecture given by Barton to the Phildelphia Linnaean Society on June 1807, was published less than a year after this broadside was issued and probably utilized material meant for Elements of zoology. Manuscript list of some of the subscribers, including Rubens Peale of Peale's Museum in Philadelphia, is appended to the document.
Creator: Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
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: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Animals; Zoology
Date: 1806