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Title: Miscellany. Meteorological observations for May, 1817. State of the thermometer at a tenement of Mr. James Reed, near the Brattle-House, Cambridge
Identifier(s): text:307; APSimg6738; Goodman Number: 173; 973 C683 No. 311
Description: Appears to be a reprint of an article from a newspaper.; Oversized.
Creator: Reed, James
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Temperature; Weather

Title: [Phrenological chart fragment]
Identifier(s): text:329; APSimg6551; Goodman Number: 282; 973 C683 No. 257
Description: Fragment of a phrenological chart, containing manuscript notes on the reverse, as well as the inscription: "Mr. Fowler's decision on my phrenological traits in 1836. H. R. S."; The chart is torn along the righthand side, rendering some words illegible.
Creator: Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Phrenology; Phrenology; Pseudo science

Title: Liste des membres qui composent la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice. 1er[.] septembre 1836
Identifier(s): text:136; APSimg6410; Goodman Number: 58; 973 C683 No. 377
Description: Last page of document lists rules and gives a short history of the society.
Creator: Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Natural history

Title: Elementary treatise on mineralogy. Prospectus of a treatise on mineralogy; adapted to the present state of science; including important applications to the arts and manufactures
Identifier(s): text:258; APSimg6458; Goodman Number: 151; 973 C683 No. 419
Description: Elementary treatise on mineralogy. Prospectus of a treatise on mineralogy; adapted to the present state of science; including important applications to the arts and manufactures.; Godon's Elementary treatise was apparently never published.
Creator: Godon, S[ilvain] (ca. 1774-1840)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Minerals; Industry

Title: New-York, March 2, 1829. Sir, Several gentlemen in this city have formed an association for the purpose of sending a suitable person to collect objects in natural history in some of the more remote parts of the United States; to which you are invited to contribute, provided the plan meets your approbation. ...Shares are fixed at $10 each. The expense of the journey for one year, exclusive of transportation of collections, is estimated at $600. Dr. H. Gates, a gentleman well qualified, is engaged, and will depart about the 15th of March, provided forty shares have been then subscribed for.
Identifier(s): text:1757; APSimg6511; Goodman Number: 325; 973 C683 No. 633
Description: Circular letter asking for funding to support the collection of objects in natural history from across the United States. Interested parties are requested to direct their replies to John Le Conte, John Torrey, and William Cooper.
Creator: Lyceum of Natural History (New York, N.Y.)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Natural history; Specimens; Discovery & exploration

Title: Maison d'éducation et école de mathématiques, sous l'autorité & la jurisdiction de Monsieur le Chantre de l'Église de Paris...[et] sous la direction de M. Arnauld
Identifier(s): text:780; APSimg6676; Goodman Number: 82
Description: Advertisement for a House of Education and School of Mathematics under the direction of Mr. Arnauld, promising a distinguished education in a vast house with a good environment. Originally enclosed with letter from Arnauld to Benjamin Franklin, November 26, 1782 (see B:F85:vol.26:no.72).; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, no. 86.
Creator: Arnauld
Source: Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Education; Mathematics

Title: Sur les gisements de cinq séries de gaz hydrocarbonés provenant des roches paléozoïques de l'Amérique du Nord;
Identifier(s): text:1149; local: APSimg6635; local: 149
Description: Descriptions of natural gas samples and the five localities in North America from which they were collected by Foucou.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1094, no. 14.
Creator: Foucou, Félix, b. 1831et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Natural gas; Geology

Title: Philadelphia Meeting, 1884. Sir:-- I have the honor to inform you that at a recent meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia, you were elected a member of the local committee for the reception of the British and American Associations for the Advancement of Science, who will meet in this city in September, 1884
Identifier(s): text:1761; APSimg 6388; Goodman Number: 5; 973 C683 No. 643
Description: Form letter signed in type by Joseph Leidy, chairman of the local committee and H. Carvill Lewis, secretary.
Creator: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Membership campaigns; Organizations

Title: H. Ewington's universal chronometer or perpetual almanac explained
Identifier(s): text:366; APSimg6504; Goodman Number: 300; 973 C683 No. 172
Description: Paper instrument composed of movable discs for determining the time of sunrise and sunset, length of day and night, and other periodic phenomena.
Creator: Ewington, Harry
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Clocks & watches; Almanacs; Meteorological instruments

Title: Mémoire sur une pendule à baromêtre...
Identifier(s): text:572; APSimg6750; Goodman Number: 308
Description: Advertises a barometer which, by means of a stylet striking a paper grid, automatically records the current level of mercury at intervals as small as every four minutes.; Item call number: 608 P19, no. 16.
Creator: Romilly, Jean, 1714-1796
Source: Benjamin Franklin Library (608 P19); http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/f/franklin/overview.htm
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Barometers; Meteorological instruments

Title: Newport, March 16, 1752. Notice is hereby given to the curious, that at the Court-House, in the Council-Chamber, is now to be exhibited, and continued from day to day, for a week or two; a course of experiments, on the newly-discovered electrical fire: containing; not only the most curious of those that have been published in Europe, but a considerable number of new ones lately made in Philadelphia; to be accompanied with methodical lectures on the nature and properties of that wonderful element
Identifier(s): text:1772; APSimg6453; Goodman Number: 140; 973 C683 No. 275
Description: Kinnersley, collaborator with Benjamin Franklin in his electrical studies, lectured on electricity and lightning in Philadelphia, Newport, New York, and elsewhere before accepting an appointment as professor of English at the College of Philadelphia in 1753.; Photocopy. Location of original source unknown.
Creator: Kinnersley, Ebenezer, 1711-1778
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Electricity; Electricity--Experiments; Fire; Public speaking

Title: North American and Carolina tree, shrub, and plant seed, imported and sold by Powell and Eddie, seedsmen, at the King's-Head, near Fetter-Lane, Holbourn, London
Identifier(s): text:249; APSimg6472; Goodman Number: 202; 973 C683 No. 236
Description: List of seeds available for purchase.
Creator: Powell and Eddie
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Seeds; Horticulture

Title: Propostition faite aux amis des sciences et des arts. Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur l'Archiduc Charles, Généralissime, a daigné m'autoriser à entreprendre un voyage dans l'Orient; ce voyage doit avoir lieu vers la fin de novembre de l'année prochaine, et j'y serai accompagné des personnes, et muni des instrumens propres à en assurer le succès
Identifier(s): text:1775; APSimg6509; Goodman Number: 322; 973 C683 No. 303
Description: Manuscript date of December 20, 1806. Indicates that principle purpose of the visit is to obtain information on the natural history of the horse but that if possible questions posed by individuals on general natural history, geography, philology, technology, archaeology, and numismatics would also be answered.
Creator: Högelmüller, Georg Ritter von, 1770-1826
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Natural history; Horses; Travel

Title: Report of a commission appointed to examine the triangulation of Mr. James Ferguson, assistant U.S. Coast Survey upon the coast of the United States, during the years, 1844-45. Coast Survey Office, Washington, March 1, 1847
Identifier(s): text:254; APSimg6462; Goodman Number: 155; 973 C683 No. 631
Description: Signed in type by Benjamin Peirce, Andrew Talcott, and Charles Davies. Reveals the commission decision that the "real character" of Mr. Ferguson's work was "defective and uncertain in results."
Creator: United States. Office of Coast Survey
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Coastlines; Surveying

Title: Opus maximum; or, great essay to reduce the contingency of the moral world into system or science. First part, containing Psyconomy; or, science of the mind
Identifier(s): text:313; APSimg6502; Goodman Number: 293; 973 C683 No. 624
Creator: Stewart, John
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Social science; Anthropology

Title: Third circular of the committee, relating to the contemplated meeting to commence on the first Monday of April 1844. To which are added certain proceedings of the board of management of the institute.
Identifier(s): text:145; APSimg6408; Goodman Number: 35; 973 C683 No. 713
Description: Discusses plans for the first annual meeting of the National Institute as well as its scope and general goals. Includes minutes of the board of management, December 23, 1843, and copies of circulars issued by the board on October 15, 1842 and February 24, 1843. Lists the following as members of the committee: Joseph C. Spencer, Joseph R. Ingersoll, Robert J. Walker, W[illia]m C. Rives, Rufus Choate, W[illia]m C. Preston, Abbott Lawrence, and Alexander Dallas Bache. Signed in type by Joseph P. Ingersoll.; Top portion of sheet partially destroyed.
Creator: National Institute for the Promotion of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Meetings; Organizations; Science

Title: Description of the atmospheric recorder, or self-registering apparatus for the various changes of the barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, electrometer, pluviometer, and evaporator, and of the force and direction of the wind. Arranged and manufactured by G. Dollond, optician to Her Majesty
Identifier(s): text:1750; APSimg6553; Goodman Number: 297; 973 C683 No. 728
Description: Includes description of how data is recorded by specially weighted pencils on an automatically moving roller. Also includes illustration of the atmospheric recorder and "representation of one day's work."; See annotation to Goodman #298 for information on the Dollond business.
Creator: Dollond, George, 1774-1852
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Meteorological instruments; Meteorology

Title: The subscriber, proposing to devote his time to instruction in the practical operations of chemistry, has taken a laboratory, in which he will give personal attention to such as are desirous of acquiring a knowledge of the science, as well as the manipulations necessary for extending such knowledge or for making scientific researches. ...Philadelphia, March 3, 1836.
Identifier(s): text:1778; APSimg6447; Goodman Number: 126; 973 C683 No. 183
Description: Booth, one of America's first "professional" consulting chemists, returned to Philadelphia from his studies abroad in 1836 to begin instruction on qualitative and quantitative analysis. Booth lists the following as references: A[lexander] D. Bache, F[ranklin] Bache, Dr. [George B.] Wood, Dr. [Robert E.] Griffith, and Henry Troth.
Creator: Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Education

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

Title: The comet. Elements of the orbit of the comet, now visible. 1811.
Identifier(s): text:609; APSimg6605; Goodman Number: 112
Description: Communication submitted by this largely self-taught astronomer and mathemetician is read before the American Philosophical Society on December 6, 1811. Cf. Minutes, p. 431.
Creator: Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838
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: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Comets; Eclipses; Stargazing