Scope and Contents As a device for attracting visitors to his early Philadelphia museum, C. W. Peale gave various courses of lectures. The outlines for those delivered during 1801 to 1802 were devoted to the subject of natural objects. The series consists of 39 numbers and various introductory sections, making in all 42 parts. These were donated to the Academy where they remained until 1948 when they were deposited, on call, with the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. [Recalled to the ANSP July...