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May 21, 2020
In the APS’s voluminous collections of Franklin’s manuscripts are a series of cooking recipes, mostly undated and a majority written in French. APS Member and...
May 13, 2020
There are few things as tantalizing to the imagination as finding a mysterious object in an archival collection, especially one that's already full of more...
May 7, 2020
American scientist and cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) was a pioneer in genetics research in the early 20th century, a time when few women worked in...
May 6, 2020
During the extraordinary times of the COVID-19 pandemic, APS Council has passed a rare public resolution on behalf of the Membership calling on Congress to...
May 5, 2020
The American Philosophical Society is pleased to welcome new Members elected to the Society in 2020. Election to the American Philosophical Society honors extraordinary accomplishments...
May 1, 2020
Throughout May, the APS Library & Museum Programming division (often internally referred to as “LAMP”) will be doing a social media takeover of the Society’s...
![Rittera pinnata, Plate 7, José Francisco Correia da Serra, Vues carpologiques, [Paris : Museum d'histoire naturelle, 1807], American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Pamphlets on botany, 580 Pam. v.5, no.3](/sites/default/files/styles/blog_listing/public/2020-04/Priest%20Blog_001.jpg?h=9c610f2b&itok=iQBAhgTj)
April 30, 2020
In June of 1813, Thomas Jefferson, then President of the American Philosophical Society, wrote to APS Vice-President Caspar Wistar: “I found him what you had...
April 23, 2020
A researcher interested in the Whiskey Rebellion of 1795 recently shed new light on this remarkable, yet undated, petition. Over the years, this petition has...