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September 30, 2024
Portrait of William Jacobs Robbins by Albert Ketcham Murray, 1966, APS Collection; Robbins is the only Executive Officer to be pictured in his lab coat...
September 23, 2024
Clyde Barker served as President of the APS from 2011 to 2017. This honor was the capstone to a brilliant career in medicine and hospital...
September 16, 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...
September 9, 2024
Many hands and many minds contributed to Mark Catesby’s The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands and William Bartram’s Travels through North...
September 3, 2024
Header Image: The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands , vol 1, Mark Catesby, 1771, London, 1771 (3rd edition). APS. A picture...
August 26, 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...
August 20, 2024
Philadelphia [August 20, 2024]—The American Philosophical Society is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Patrick Spero as the Society’s next Chief Executive Officer. Dr...
August 19, 2024
Header Image: Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baroness of Staël-Holstein (known as Madame de Staël) c.1815-7, by Joseph Bouton. Royal Collection Trust . Anne Louise Germaine...