Byberry Philosophical Society records 1886-1990

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Byberry Philosophical Society records 1886-1990

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The Byberry Philosophical Society was formed in 1829 with the objective of collecting and promoting scientific knowledge. They accomplished this through hosting lectures, purchasing relevant texts, and the collection of natural history specimens. Byberry Philosophical Society records, 1886-1990, includes a meeting minute book dating from 1886 to 1959, as well as collection inventories, newspaper clippings, and typescript copies of minutes.

0.3 Linear feet; 1 volume, 1 folder, 1 binder, 1 notebook

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Comly, Isaac, 1779-1847

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Byberry Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

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Byberry Monthly Meeting was established in 1810 by Abington Quarterly Meeting out of Horsham Monthly Meeting. Byberry Preparative Meeting was its only subordinate business meeting. The meeting remained with Hicksite Friends at the time of the Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1827; Orthodox members were attached to Frankford Monthly Meeting. The meeting reunited with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox) in 1955, and is currently active. From the description of...

Byberry Philosophical Society

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"In the autumn of 1829 a constitution was produced for ratifying the affairs of a society to be known as The Byberry Philosophical Society. There were nine members at first, but that number soon grew to twenty-two. The object was the acquisition and promotion of scientific knowledge. The first plan for obtaining it was by means of lectures, which were delivered by one or other of the members. They followed each other regularly, according to the order laid down in textbooks adopted b...