Obverse: bas-relief of University of Pennsylvania seal and motto; "University of Pennsylvania 1740 1940." Reverse: two-headed herm; "TEMP-ORIS LUX ACT 1 ILLUSTRET POSERITATIS VIAM (C) RT 1938." Edge: "Medallic Art Co. NY"

Pin is attached to yellow ribbon. Obverse: bas-relief of University of Pennsylvania seal and motto; "University of Pennsylvania 1740 1940." Reverse: two-headed herm; "TEMP-ORIS LUX ACT 1 ILLUSTRET POSERITATIS VIAM (C) RT 1938." Edge: "Medallic Art Co. NY"

Pin is attached to red ribbon. Obverse: bas-relief of University of Pennsylvania seal and motto; "University of Pennsylvania 1740 1940." Reverse: two-headed herm; "TEMP-ORIS LUX ACT 1 ILLUSTRET POSERITATIS VIAM (C) RT 1938." Edge: "Medallic Art Co. NY" Similar but smaller than M-P385-1.

Pin is attached to white ribbon. Obverse: bas-relief of University of Pennsylvania seal and motto; "University of Pennsylvania 1740 1940." Reverse: two-headed herm; "TEMP-ORIS LUX ACT 1 ILLUSTRET POSERITATIS VIAM (C) RT 1938." Edge: "Medallic Art Co. NY"

Pin is attached to orange ribbon. Obverse: bas-relief of University of Pennsylvania seal and motto; "University of Pennsylvania 1740 1940." Reverse: two-headed herm; "TEMP-ORIS LUX ACT 1 ILLUSTRET POSERITATIS VIAM (C) RT 1938." Edge: "Medallic Art Co. NY"

Pin is attached to green ribbon. Obverse: bas-relief of University of Pennsylvania seal and motto; "University of Pennsylvania 1740 1940." Reverse: two-headed herm; "TEMP-ORIS LUX ACT 1 ILLUSTRET POSERITATIS VIAM (C) RT 1938." Edge: "Medallic Art Co. NY"

Pin is attached to brown ribbon. Obverse: bas-relief of University of Pennsylvania seal and motto; "University of Pennsylvania 1740 1940." Reverse: two-headed herm; "TEMP-ORIS LUX ACT 1 ILLUSTRET POSERITATIS VIAM (C) RT 1938." Edge: "Medallic Art Co. NY"

Pin is attached to red and blue ribbon. Obverse: bas-relief of University of Pennsylvania seal and motto; "University of Pennsylvania 1740 1940." Reverse: two-headed herm; "TEMP-ORIS LUX ACT 1 ILLUSTRET POSERITATIS VIAM (C) RT 1938." Edge: "Medallic Art Co. NY"

Obverse: classical female figure awarding laurel/olive wreath. Four vignettes of classically-styled female figures at corners. Reverse: laurel/olive wreath encircles "AWARDED BY / UNITED STATES / CENTENNIAL / COMMISSION" and "INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION PHILADELPHIA, MDCCCLXXVI." around perimeter.

Obverse: bas-relief profile portrait of Joseph Wharton; "JOSEPH WHARTON BORN 1826 / FOUNDED THE WHARTON SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND ECONOMY 1881" around perimeter; "1894" and maker's name (unintelligible) under profile. Reverse: laurel/olive wreath encircles "SUUM CUIQUE."

Obverse: bas-relief of Memorial Hall; "1776 MEMORIAL HALL 1876 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION" around perimeter. Reverse: "THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE" around perimeter and "4TH OF JULY 1876 / EXHIBITION OPEN / FROM / MAY 18 TO NOV. 10 1876 / FAIRMOUNT PARK / PHILADELPHIA / U.S. AMERICA" at center.

Obverse: bas-relief of Philadelphia seal; "Awarded by the City of Philadelphia" around perimeter. Reverse: wreath; "THE JOHN SCOTT MEDAL TO THE MOST DESERVING" around perimeter. Incised text at center: "GEORGE H. SHULL FOR ORIGINATION OF HYBRID CORN NOVEMBER 16 1945." Stored separate from presentation box marked "JOHN SCOTT MEDAL GEORGE H. SHULL" (M-953-3b)

Obverse: bas-relief of Independence Hall; "PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT THE LAND AND UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE THEREOF" at top perimeter; "Independence Hall July 4 1776 Pat. Feb 10 1874" at bottom. Reverse: bas-relief of Memorial Hall; "MEMORIAL HALL" at top; "TO COMMEMORATE THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED STATES JULY 4 1876" at bottom.

Blue and white ironstone plate with central 3/4 portrait of Benjamin Franklin in a fur hat. "THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY / BENJAMIN FRANKLIN / 1706-1906" around inner perimeter. Decorative border with seal of the Pennsylvania Society, arms of the State of Pennsylvania and New York, and the Franklin arms, surrounded by fruit and leaves around outer perimeter.

Nine instruments housed in original wooden case covered in leather or sharkskin. The top of the case is hinged at one side, and held shut by a snap fastening. Inside the top is a printed label: "McAllister & Co./48 Chestnut Street/Philadelphia. Have constantly for sale, cases of/Mathematical Instruments/For Schools, Wholesale & Retail/Dividers, Gunter's Scales, Parallel Rules, Brass and Ivory Protractors, etc. separate from the case." Around the wall of the top is pasted a strip of paper, bearing handwritten inscriptions - "$3 1/4 /N60K/n fli/gfi DW Mr/ No 160-9/str purchd March 18 1847/of McAllister." Contains nine drafting instruments: divider, compass with five attachments, ivory scale, parallel rule, and scaled semicircle.

Trillium undulatum "in the ____ woods, Pennsylvania, about 146 miles from Philadelphia. June." Collected by:Mr. King

Adlumia fungosa "Collected in northern Pennsylvania or central New York, before 1807." Collected by:David Thomas

Scutellaria lateriflora "Collected by Mr. John Adlum, near Duck's Pond, in Pennsylvania, about the middle of August." Collected by:John Adlum

American Victorian Pennsylvania kitchen table with stretcher. Overhanging rectangular top with inset surface and molded front edge above a shallow, straight apron fitted to front with two wide shallow drawers. The drawers have brass scoop-type grips and are flanked by protruding square corners applied with renaissance-style fluted strapwork brackets with bosses. These are raised on massive tapered round legs, ring-turned with compressed bulbous sections and caster feet. Some fo the brasses have been replaced. One end of the table is squared where a shorter table could abut: the other end has rounded corners. (Murphy D. Smith, "Due Reverence," 1992).

Ten-pound precision balance in brass. Ivory balance indicators are mounted on columns of the supporting frame. The pans are supported by rigid rods suspended from the balance arm.