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Title: SYMPOSIUM: Science, Art and Knowledge: Practicing Natural History from the Enlightenment to the 21st Century. Part IV: The Linnaean Enterprise: Past, Present and Future.
Identifier(s): video:244; 2004_04_004
Description: Dr. Wilson recalls the contributions of Linneas to natural history and how his classification system revolutionized the science of 18th century.
Subject: History of Science; Botany, Classification, 18th Century; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2004-04-22

Title: Linnaeus. The illustrious Charles von Linnaeus, one of the greatest naturalists the world has ever produced
Identifier(s): text:342; APSimg6489; Goodman Number: 247; 973 C683 No. 581
Description: Biographical sketch of the famed naturalist. Includes an illustrated engraving.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Natural history; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778
Date: 1796

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: 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: 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: Philadelphia, _____ 18__. Sir, It is in conformity with the directions of the Philadelphia Linnean Society, and in their behalf, that we have now the honor of addressing you
Identifier(s): text:711; APSimg6565; Goodman Number: 49
Description: Circular letter, sent to Benjamin Smith Barton on May 18, 1809, requesting the receiver to communicate the results of their natural history observations to the society. Indicates that the society is especially interested in specimens of plants and minerals. Autograph signatures of Sam[uel] Hazard, Sam[uel] Belton, and Sam[ue]l Colhoun, members of the correspondence committee of the Philadelphia Linnean Society.
Creator: Philadelphia Linnean 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; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Linnean Society of Philadelphia; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778; Specimens
Date: ca. 1809