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March 11, 2024
Self portrait of the artist, 1892 Objects of intrigue and mystery will often present themselves on the cataloger’s desk, the most recent one being a...
March 4, 2024
The Library & Museum at the American Philosophical Society supports a diverse community of scholars working on a wide-range of projects in fields including early...
February 26, 2024
A microscopic sequence framing the different stages of Dictyostelium discoideum in its life cycle. Amoebae aggregates and forms into a slug that leaves behind a...
February 20, 2024
Telegraph from John Ross to anthropologist John Alden Mason, 1932 October 1. John Alden Mason Collection, Box 34, Folder Ross, John. APS Thanks to a...
February 12, 2024
The Library & Museum at the American Philosophical Society supports a diverse community of scholars working on a wide-range of projects in fields including early...
February 5, 2024
In a recent program, “Ali in the Archive,” I took a journey into the American Philosophical Society’s archive to see material related to two scientists...
January 29, 2024
The Library & Museum at the American Philosophical Society supports a diverse community of scholars working on a wide-range of projects in fields including early...
January 22, 2024
Most of the wire recordings held at the American Philosophical Society today are in the Floyd Lounsbury Papers—there are 56 in all. These were popular...