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- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. :, Volume IV.
- Cartas presentadas á la Sociedad Filosofíca de Philadelphia.
- The papers of Benjamin Franklin, Leonard W. Labaree, editor ; Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., associate editor
- Remarks on education:, illustrating the close connection between virtue and wisdom. : To which is annexed, a system of liberal education. Which, having received the premium awarded by the American Philosophical Society, December 15th, 1797, is now published by their order., By Samuel Harrison Smith, A.M. member of the Am. Phil. Society.
- Crucial American elections;, symposium presented at the autumn general meeting of the American Philosophical Society, November 10, 1972
- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. :, Volume II.
- An eulogium, intended to perpetuate the memory of David Rittenhouse, late president of the American Philosophical Society,, delivered before the Society in the First Presbyterian Church, in High-Street, Philadelphia, on the 17th Dec. 1796. Agreeably to appointment,, by Benjamin Rush, a member of the Society.
- An oration, delivered February 4, 1774, before the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia., Containing, an enquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians in North-America, and a comparitive view of their diseases and remedies, with those of civilized nations. : Together with an appendix, containing, proofs and illustrations., By Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of chemistry in the College of Philadelphia. ; [Four lines from Malebranche in French]
- The preadamite theory and the marriage of science and religion, David N. Livingstone
- Anniversary oration, delivered May 21st, before the American Philosophical Society, held in Philadelphia, for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge., For the year 1782., By Doctor Thomas Bond, vice-president of that society. ; [Two lines in Latin from Monroius]
- An oration, delivered, January 22 1773,, before the patron, vice-presidents and members of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge., By William Smith, D.D. one of the secretaries of the said society, and provost of the College of Philadelphia.
- An oration, delivered the second of March, 1781, at the request of the American Philosophical Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge,, before the said society and a large and respectable assembly of citizens and foreigners., By Owen Biddle, one of the secretaries to the said society.
- Memoir on the analysis of the black vomit, ejected in the last stage of the yellow fever., By Isaac Cathrall.
- The Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacán, 1959 investigations, René Millon, Bruce Drewitt, and James A. Bennyhoff
- Discourse on the family as an element of government, read before the American Philosophical Society, January, 1864, [by Eli Kirk Price]
- An oration, delivered February 24, 1775,, before the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge., By David Rittenhouse, A.M. member of the said society.
- An oration, delivered March 16, 1780,, before the patron, vice-presidents and members of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge., By Timothy Matlack, Esquire, a member of said society and secretary of the Supreme Executive Council of the state of Pennsylvania.
- Africans and Europeans in West Africa, Elminans and Dutchmen on the Gold Coast during the eighteenth century, Harvey M. Feinberg
- The definitive journals of Lewis & Clark, Gary E. Moulton, editor ; Thomas W. Dunlay, assistant editor
- Transactions, of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. :, From January 1st, 1769, to January 1st, 1771., Volume I.
- The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, during the years 1849-'50-'51-'52, J.M. Gilliss, superintendent ; Archibald MacRae, S.L. Phelps [and] E.R. Smith, assistants ; [submitted to the American Philosophical Society and the [American] Academy of Arts and Sciences]
- Murchison in Moray, a geologist on home ground : with the correspondence of Roderick Impey Murchison and the Rev. Dr. George Gordon of Birnie, Michael Collie and John Diemer
- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. :, Volume III.
- A short account of the solar system, and of comets in general:, together with a particular account of the comet that will appear in 1789., By Bartholomew Burges.
- English justice between the Norman Conquest and the Great Charter, 1066-1215, Doris M. Stenton
- Papers relative to certain American antiquities., By Winthrop Sargent, Esq. secretary to the territory of the United-States, north-west of the River-Ohio: and by Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D. professor of materia medica, natural history, and botany, in the University of Pennsylvania.
- A short account of the solar system, and of comets in general:, together with a particular account of the comet that will appear in 1789., by Bartholomew Burges.
- A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds, by John Hunter ; with notes by James F. Palmer
- An account of the sugar maple-tree, of the United States, and of the methods of obtaining sugar from it,, together with observations upon the advantages both public and private of this sugar. : In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, Esq. secretary of state of the United States, and one of the vice presidents of the American Philosophical Society. : Read in the American Philosophical Society, on the 19, of August, 1791, and extracted from the third volume of their Transactions now in the press., By Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of the institutes and of clinical medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.
- The journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Gary E. Moulton, editor
- A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia:, with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States., By Mathew Carey.
- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. :, Volume I.
- A table of French verbs, ... conjugated throughout all their tenses and moods ..., Inscrib'd to the American Philosophical Society, by their most obedient and most devoted servant, C. Carré.
- Eulogium on Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D., President of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge, fellow of the Royal Society of London, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, of the Royal Society at Gottingen, the Batavian Society in Holland, and of many other literary societies in Europe and America; late minister plenipotentiary for the United States of America at the court of Paris, sometime president, and for more than half a century a revered citizen, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania., Delivered March 1, 1791, in the German Lutheran Church of the city of Philadelphia, before the American Philosophical Society, and agreeably to their appointment, by William Smith, D.D. one of the vice-presidents of the said society, and provost of the College, and Academy of Philadelphia. ; The memory of the deceased was honored also, at the delivery of this eulogium, with the presence of the president, Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the corporation, and most of the public bodies, as well as respectable citizens, of Philadelphia.
- A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia:, with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States. : To which are added, accounts of the plague in London and Marseilles; and a list of the dead, from August 1, to the middle of December, 1793., By Mathew Carey.
- Prize dissertation, which was honored with the Magellanic Gold Medal, by the American Philosophical Society, January, 1793. Cadmus: or A treatise on the elements of written language,, illustrating, by a philosophical division of speech, the power of each character, thereby mutually fixing the orthography and orthoepy. : [One line in Latin from Horace] : With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak., By William Thornton, M.D. member of the Societies of Scots Antiquaries of Edinburgh and Perth; the Medical Society, and the Society of Nautical Hist. of Edin: the American Philosophical Society, &c.
- Experiments and observations on the mineral waters of Philadelphia, Abington, and Bristol, in the province of Pennsylvania., Read June 18, 1773, before the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia., By Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of chemistry in the College of Philadelphia.
- Prussia in transition, society and politics under the Stein reform ministry of 1808, Marion W. Gray
- An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species., To which are added strictures on Lord Kaims's discourse, on the original diversity of mankind., By the Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith, D.D. Vice-president, and professor of moral philosophy in the College of New-Jersey; and member of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge.
- An oration, delivered before the American Philosophical Society, held in Philadelphia on the 27th of February, 1786;, containing an enquiry into the influence of physical causes upon the moral faculty., By Benjamin Rush, M.D. and professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania. ; [Four lines from Locke]
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- Premiums., The American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge, in order the more effectually to answer the ends of their institution, have agreed to appropriate, annually, a part of their funds to be disposed of in premiums, to the authors of the best performances, inventions, or improvements, relative to certain specific subjects of useful knowledge. The following premiums, therefore, are now proposed by the society.
- Aspects of American liberty, philosophical, historical, and political : addresses presented at an observance of the Bicentennial year of American independence by the American Philosophical Society, April 22-24, 1976
- American Philosophical Society, Memoirs, v. 64
- American Philosophical Society, Memoirs, v. 63
- Conditions of the Magellanic premium.
- Guide to the archives and manuscript collections of the American Philosophical Society, compiled by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. and Murphy D. Smith
- American Philosophical Society, Proceedings, v. 113, no. 5
- American Philosophical Society, Transactions, new ser, v. 52, pt. 2
- Laws and regulations of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge., Vide minutes of the Society, of the 4th May, 1804.
- Frontiers of cultural anthropology, papers read at the Autumn general meeting, November 15, 1968, American Philosophical Society
- American Philosophical Society, Transactions, new ser, v. 50, pt. 8
- Philadelphia, 1788. At a meeting of the American Philosophical Society, on the 18th of April 1788,, a letter was received from Mr. James Rumsey, of the state of Virginia, accompanied with a drawing and description of an improved boiler for a steam-engine, as also drawings and discriptions [sic] of 1. An improvement in Dr. Barkers' grist-mill. 2. An improvement in the saw-mill. 3. An improvement in raising water by means of a steam-engine.
- American Philosophical Society, Transactions, new ser., v. 66, pt. 1
- At a meeting of the committee appointed by the American Philosophical Society, for the purpose of collecting and communicating to the society materials for forming the natural history of the insect called the Hessian-fly, as also information of the best means of preventing or destroying the insect, and whatever else relative to the same may be interesting to agriculture:[.]
- American Philosophical Society, Transations, new ser, v. 53, pt. 5
- American Philosophical Society, Memoirs, v. 48
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- A short account of the solar system, and of comets in general:, together with a particular account of the comet that will appear in 1789., By Bartholomew Burges.
- A short account of the solar system, and of comets in general:, together with a particular account of the comet that will appear in 1789., by Bartholomew Burges.
- A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia:, with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States. : To which are added, accounts of the plague in London and Marseilles; and a list of the dead, from August 1, to the middle of December, 1793., By Mathew Carey.
- A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia:, with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States., By Mathew Carey.
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