- Goodacre , Robert . 1808 . An essay on the education of youth Bingham But see Derby mercury, 5 July 1804; Nottingham journal, 5, 12 July 1806.
- 1819 . Prospectus of Standard Hill Academy Vol. 4 , 14 – 14 . Nottingham in ‘Record of pupils and events connected with Standard Hill Academy, near Nottingham’ (bound volume M/373, Local Studies Library, Nottingham).
- Steadman , Thomas . 1838 . Memoir of the Revd. William Steadman 363 – 366 . London Joseph Farrar, Autobiography of Joseph Farrar (1859, Bradford), 44–56.
- For example Bradford courier September 1825 29 17 November 5, 19 January, 30 March 1826.
- August 1827 . Nottingham review August , 7
- March 1824 . Testimonial to Robert Goodacre March , Washington 8 in idid
- Wurman , R.S. and Gallery , John A. 1972 . Man-made Philadelphia, a guide to its physical and cultural environment Cambridge, Mass.
- Warner , S.B. Jr. 1968 . The private city 51 – 51 . Philadelphia 57–58.
- This is the phrase used in Miller Richard G. Philadelphia, the federalist city. A study of urban politics, 1789–1801 New York 1976 3 20
- Oberhottzer , E.P. 1920 . Philadelphia, a history of the city and its people Vol. II , Philadelphia 4 vols. esp. chs. XX and XXI.
- Carl and Bridenbaugh , Jessica . 1965 . Rebels and gentlemen, Philadelphia in the age of Franklin New York ch. IX. ‘The love of science’.
- Carl and Bridenbaugh , Jessica . 1965 . Rebels and gentlemen, Philadelphia in the age of Franklin 356 – 356 . New York
- Oberhottzer . 1920 . Philadelphia, a history of the city and its people 111 – 114 . Philadelphia 4 vols.
- Oberhottzer . 1920 . Philadelphia, a history of the city and its people 110 – 110 . Philadelphia 4 vols.
- October 1825 . Gazette October , 18
- For such lectures at Friend's see Poulson's November 1823 3 26 October, 1, 8 November 1825; National gazette, 19 November 1825.
- Poulson's, 6 November 1823, 29 October 1825; Gazette, 2 November 1825 Keating W.H. Syllabus of a course of mineralogy and chemistry as applied to agriculture and the arts University of Pennsylvania 1822 4 8
- Keating ibid., 8 Miles W.D. William H. Keating and the beginning of chemical laboratory instruction in America Univ. of Penn. library chronicle 1951–56 18–22 12 24 and 19 (1952–53), 1–35.
- In 1825 there were some 169 physicians and surgeons in Philadelphia, this figure excluding subsidiary or pseudo-medical services (see Oberhottzer Philadelphia, a history of the city and its people Philadelphia 1920 114 114 4 vols.
- 1825 . Democratic press , October 21 Gazette 24, 26 November 1823.
- ‘Journal of Dr. George B. Wood, 1817–29’ (manuscript bound volume, AM, 1924, Library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania), entry for 1 December 1818, 4 November 1822; Poulson's, 31 October 1825; ‘Notebooks MS Bound Volume c. 1804, containing Lecture Notes of Dr. Moyes’ lectures on Natural Philosophy, pp. 74’, in ‘Patterson Papers’ (B P274, Library of American Philosophical Society); and Patterson R.M. Lectures on atomic theory to the Philadelphia Medical Society Philadelphia 1818 and Lectures on natural philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania (n.d., Philadelphia, incomplete).
- A highly competent history of the Franklin Institute has recently been completed, but it fails to treat the Institute as part of a network of associations central to the city's scientific culture. See Sinclair Bruce Philadelphia's philosopher mechanics Baltimore 1974 and the review of the book by F. M. Binder, The Penn, mag. of hist. and biog., 99 (1975), 388–390. For Sinclair's doubts as to the efficacy of the Institute as a science instructor, see pp. 29–30, 31, 37. Significantly, Sinclair does not appear to have utilised in detail any newspapers prior to February 1824, and writes only very loosely (pp. 9–10) of a popular scientific lecturing tradition.
- November 1825 . Poulson's November , 11 ‘Journal of Dr. Wood’ (footnote 25), February 1817 Passim. For another private scientific society, comprised mostly of ‘Friends of the gayer kind’ and from 27 October 1813 named the Philadelphia Philosophical Association, see ‘Ms Diary of Henry Troth, 1813–15’ (bound volume uncatalogued, Library of Historical Society of Pennsylvania). Troth was a Quaker druggist and the association met at Chesnut Street.
- See ‘Peales’ Museum current expenditure 1808–19’, ‘Extracts from letters of C. W. Peale 1821–23’ and ‘Minutes of the Philadelphia Museum to 1845’, all in ‘The Peale Manuscripts’ (Case 15, Historical Society of Pennsylvania), together with many items in ‘Peale-Sellers Ms Collection’ (BP31, Archives of the American Philosophical Society). And idea of the content of this popular science is derived from Peale C.W. Introduction to a course of lectures on natural history Philadelphia 1799 and Address delivered to the corporation and citizens of Philadelphia (1816, Philadelphia). Two attempts at biography neglect this aspect of C. W. Peale's life-work; L. Kerr, Wonder of this world. Charles W. Peale (1968, New York), and C. C. Sellers, Charles Wilson Peale (1969, New York).
- Peale . 1799 . Introduction 12 – 12 . Philadelphia
- ‘Extracts from letters 1821–23’ Introduction to a course of lectures on natural history Philadelphia 1799 and ‘Letters of Thomas Paine 1781–1903’ (autograph collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania), letter of 29 July 1803.
- ‘Current expenditure’ Introduction to a course of lectures on natural history Philadelphia 1799 1 20
- ‘Charter, bylaws and rules of the Philadelphian Museum Company, 1821–27’, in Peale-Sellers collection Introduction to a course of lectures on natural history Philadelphia 1799 item 17a.
- Scharf , J.T. and Westcott , T. 1884 . History of Philadelphia Vol. II , 946 – 971 . Philadelphia 3 vols. Poulson's, 19 November 1823. As elsewhere, phrenology achieved the status of popular science in these years. For Philadelphia see Poulson's, 26 November, 10 December 1823; Thompson Westcott, A history of Philadelphia from the time of the first settlements (4 vols., 1886, Philadelphia), unpaginated, January 1823.
- October 1823 . Poulson's October , 22 8, 11 November
- October 1825 . Saturday evening post October , 15
- October 1823 . Poulson's Vol. 28 , October , 31 6, 7 November Democratic press, 1 November 1823; Edgar F. Smith, Jacob Green 1790–1841, chemist (1923, University of Pennsylvania).
- October 1823 . Franklin gazette Vol. 21 , October , 24
- 1823 . Gazette , 25 November
- 1823 . Aurora , 23 October 25, 29 Poulson's, 3, 5, November 1823.
- 1823 . Franklin gazette , 29 October
- 1823 . Democratic press , 12 November 13 Saturday evening post, 15 November 1823.
- 1823 . Poulson's , 19 November Aurora, 19 November 1823.
- 1823 . Aurora , 19 November
- 1825 . Gazette , 29 October Poulson's, 28 October 1823.
- 1825 . Gazette , 14 October
- 1823 . Democratic press , 21 October
- For estimates of numbers and examples of range see Poulson's, 7 November 1825; National gazette November 1825 19 (listing 48 public science courses). A private teacher writing in Poulson's on 14 November 1823 commented that ‘Hardly excepting the midnight hour, there is not one in the 24 in every day, which a Student may not fill attendance on the able discourses of the public or some private School …’.
- 1823–25 . Diaries of Deborah Norric Logan 6 – 9 . (Ms. 48–50, Library of Historical Society of Pennsylvania), 30 October, 1 November, 24 November 1823.
- 1823 . Poulson's , 29 October In the writer's view, the Quakers were particularly fond of astronomy ‘because they are more retired in their manner, and of course more open to study than those in the more gay and fashionable walks of life’.
- 1823 . Poulson's , 30 October
- 1823 . Saturday evening post , 1 November
- 1823 . Poulson's , 31 October 3 November Franklin gazette, 3 November 1823; Democratic press, 30 October 1823.
- 1823 . Democratic press , 10 November 12, 14 Poulson's, 10 November 1823.
- 1825 . Gazette , 14 October 18, 28
- 1823 . Poulson's , 12 November 14
- For Patterson and his science see Simpson Henry The lives of eminent Philadelphians now deceased, collected from original and authentic sources Philadelphia 1859 The Pennsylvanian (newspaper, obituary notice), 22 September 1854; J. K. Kane, ‘Obituary of Dr. R. M. Patterson’, in Pamphlets: collective biography (Box 11, no. 11, Library of American Philosophical Society); and ‘Patterson Papers’ (footnote 25).
- For example, at the Theatre in Baltimore he received a tremendous welcome Saturday evening post November 1823 29
- These institutions and their activities are detailed in Freedley E.T. Philadelphia and its manufactures—a handbook Philadelphia 1858 64 70
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