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Title: Synopsis of a course of lectures, on the osteology and paleontology, or the frame-work and fossils, of the class Mammalia.
Identifier(s): text:964; APSimg6727; Goodman Number: 209
Description: Advertises a series of twelve lectures to be offered by this distinguished British anatomist and paleontologist who had become the superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum only one year before this document was issued. According to this broadsheet Owen's lecture was to be devoted almost entirely to fossil mammals.; Item call number: B Ow2.1 no. 22.
Creator: Owen, Richard, 1804-1892
Source: Sir Richard Owen Papers (Mss.B.Ow2);
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Natural history; Paleontology; Fossils; Mammals
Date: 1857

Title: Missourium theristrocaulodon, or Leviathan missouriensis open for exhibition, in the saloon at the rere of Tommey's Hotel, entrance in Great Britain-Street, (opposite the Lying-in-Hospital.) Particular description and explanations given every day at 3o'c
Identifier(s): text:1763; APSimg6475; Goodman Number: 208; 973 C683 No. 484
Description: Advertises one of several sets of skeletal remains of large, New World creatures exhumed by this German-born scientist- showman, who made a living exhibiting his finds for a fee and selling them to museums after their immediate popular appeal had diminished. This particular skeleton, which Richard Owen argued was a species of Mastodon when Koch brought it to London for exhibit, was sold to the British Museum in 1844.; Includes illustration of a man standing beneath a fossil skeleton, with another man riding an elephant next to it.
Creator: Koch, Albert C.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Fossils; Skeletons; Mammoths; Mastodons; Paleontology
Date: [1843]

Title: Great American mastodon!! Now exhibiting at the hall
Identifier(s): text:349; APSimg6744; Goodman Number: 207; 973 C683 No. 477
Description: Indicates that James Darrach will be in attendance with the mastodon to answer all questions of visitors. This nearly complete mastodon skeleton, known as the Warren mastodon, was exhumed by Nathaniel Brewster and A. J. Prime from Orange County, New York, the same county in which Charles Willson Peale had found his mastodon remains nearly fifty years earlier (see #71 above). After mounting by Prime, the skeleton was exhibited in New York State and in various New England towns before being sold to Dr. John Collins Warren of Boston. Warren's heirs, in turn, sold the remains to the American Museum of Natural History in 1907.; Extra oversized.
Creator: Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Natural history; Paleontology; Mastodons
Date: [1845]

Title: Fossil fish in the collections of the [William Willoughby Cole, 3rd] Earl of Enniskillen and Sir Philip Grey [Malpas] Egerton, Bart
Identifier(s): text:769; local: APSimg6698; local: 206
Description: Lists well over 300 species of fossil fish in the two collections. The large fossil fish collection amassed by Enniskillen and Egerton was purchased by the British Museum (Natural History) in 1883.
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Natural history; Fossils; Fish; Paleontology
Date: 1841

Title: Tooth, fossils.
Identifier(s): graphics:766; APSimg5089
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: Natural history; Paleontology; Fossils; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: n.d.

Title: A short account of the behemoth or mammoth
Identifier(s): text:64; APSimg1717; Goodman Number: 210; 973 C683 No. 279
Description: Rembrandt and Rubens Peale, sons of Charles Willson Peale, noted Philadelphia artist and museum proprietor, took one of two skeletons which they and their father had exhumed in New York (see broadside #583) for a European exhibition tour lasting a little over one year (1802-03). In an effort to obtain the funds necessary for their trip across the Atlantic, the two brothers first exhibited the fossilized creature in New York, an exhibit for which this broadside was issued.
Creator: Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Natural history; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Mammoths; Exhibitions; Paleontology
Date: 1802

Title: A concise abstract of the contents of a cabinet of British organic remains, more particularly of Tertiary fossil shells...selected from their respective localities, during a period of twenty-five years, by Richard C. Taylor, Fellow of the Geological Society of London.... It is chiefly in consideration of the great risk attending its removal to its present residence, west of the Alleghanies, that, after a year's deliberation, he has determined to offer it for sale in Philadelphia
Identifier(s): text:1455; APSimg6476; Goodman Number: 211; 973 C683 No. 78
Description: Advertises the sale and lists the contents of fossil collection of this British geologist and mining engineer who immigrated to the United States in 1830. After his arrival to America Taylor became involved in economic geology of Pennsylvania, and his reputation for competency soon won him assignments from as far away as Cuba and Panama. In 1848 Taylor's Statistics of coal was published to highly favorable reviews.
Creator: Taylor, Richard C. (Richard Cowling), 1789-1851
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Fossils; Shells
Date: n.d.

Title: New Discoveries from the Age of Fishes in Pennsylvania: Building on the Paleontological Research of Keith Stewart Thomson
Identifier(s): video:1451
Description: Ted Daeschler gives a glimps into his research on the Devonian era fossils he has collected in Pennsylvania
Subject: History of Science; Geology, Stratigraphic, Devonian; Paleontology, Devonian; Fossils; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-11

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: Letters to Caspar Wistar, 1794-1893
Identifier(s): text:280565
Subject: Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818; American Philosophical Society; Botany; Medicine -- 19th century; Natural history; Yellow fever; Paleontology -- 19th century; Michaux, Francois André, 1770-1855; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Brown, Samuel, 1769-1830; Camper, Adriaan Gilles, 1759-1820; Correia da Serra, José Francisco, 1750-1823; Cuvier, Georges, Baron, 1769-1832; Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823; Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831; Palisot de Beauvois, Ambrose-Marie-François-Joseph, 1752-1820; Raffeneau-Delile, Alire, 1778-1850; Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb; Warden, David Bailie (1772-1845)
Date: 1794-1893