Enclosure: Oliver Everett’s Advertisement for the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, [ca. 22 April 1822]
Enclosure
Oliver Everett’s Advertisement for the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
[ca. 22 Apr. 1822]
Memoirs
of the
AMERICAN ACADEMY.
O. EVERETT,
has received and has for sale, at no. 6, court-street, complete sets of
THE MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES in four volumes, quarto, commencing in 1785, and continued to the present year. These volumes contain a series of valuable papers, on various subjects of Science and Literature, and from some of the most distinguished writers in America. Among the Memoirs are found
| in volume i. | in volume iii. |
| Several Astronomical Papers, by the late President Willard and Professor Williams; Observations of the Transit of Mercury in 1782, by Dr. Cutler at Ipswich and Judge Winthrop at Cambridge; several Philosophical Papers, by Hon. Mr. Bowdoin, the first President of the Society; Dr. Williams’ Account of the Dark Day, May, 1780; Papers on the Volcanic Appearances in West River Mountain; Dr. Cutler’s Catalogue of Indigenous Plants; On the Retreat of House Swallows in Winter, by Hon. S. Dexter, Sen. | Mr. Bowditch’s Observations on the Comet of 1807, and on the Eclipse of 1806; Mr. Kendal’s Account of Dighton Rock, with a large Copper Plate representation of the same; Judge Davis’ attempt to explain the Inscription; Mr. Bowditch on the Meteor which exploded over Weston, (Conn.) in 1807; On the Elements of the Orbit of the Comet of 1811; Astronomical Papers of Professor Dean; Professor Farra[r’s] Abstract of Meteorological Tables kept at Cambridg[e] from 1790 to 1807; Mr. Pickering on Americanisms: |
| in volume ii. | in volume iv. |
| Judge Lowell’s Eulogy on the Hon. James Bowdoin; President Willard’s Observations on the Transit of Mercury in 1789; Dr. Holyoke’s Observations on the difference of temperature in the same latitudes in Europe and America; Dr. Wigglesworth’s Tables on the Proportions of Deaths to Births in Massachusetts; Mr. Bowditch’s New Method of Working Lunar Observations; Chief Justice Parsons’ Solution of an Astronomical Problem; Judge Winthrop’s Account of Dighton Rock: | Dr. Bigelow’s Account of the Life and Writings of Count Rumford; Mr. Bowditch on a Mistake in the Solar Tables of Mayer, La Lande, and Zach, with several other Papers by the same Gentleman; Professor Peck on the Sea Serpent; Mr. Pickering on the Pronunciation of the Greek Language; and on a uniform Orthography of the Indian Languages of North America; Professor Everett on an inedited Roman Inscription of the Age of Augustus; and on some Greek Manuscripts procured at Constantinople in 1819. |
The foregoing constitute but a small portion of the contents of the volumes of the Memoirs of the American Academy; of which complete sets, single volumes, or parts of volumes, may be had at No. 6, Court-Street.
Broadside (DLC: TJ Papers, 222:39607); with address cover of covering letter on verso; undated; edge torn at seal.
inedited: “unpublished” ().
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- botany; study of search
- Bowditch, Nathaniel; writings of search
- Bowdoin, James (1726–90); eulogy for search
- Bowdoin, James (1726–90); writings of search
- comets; study of search
- Cutler, Manasseh search
- Davis, John (1761–1847) search
- Dean, James search
- Dexter, Samuel; writings of search
- English language; dialects of search
- Everett, Edward; writings of search
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- Farrar, John; writings of search
- geology; study of search
- Greek language; pronunciation of search
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- Holyoke, Edward A.; writings of search
- Indians, American; languages search
- Kendall, Edward Augustus search
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- Lowell, John; writings of search
- Massachusetts; works on search
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- Peck, William D. search
- Pickering, John (1777–1846); writings of search
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