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Charles Read's Notes on Colonial Agriculture
No full textAmong the treasured items of the Rutgers Library's collection on agricultural history is a manuscript exceptionallv rich in data on colonial agriculture. It is a miscellany of notes, observations, records, and comments kept by Charles Read, prominent citizen of New Jersey for about thirty years prior to the Revolution. The entries are made on interleavings bound into a volume of Sy sterna Agriculturae, by the English writer John Worlidge, the third edition, enlarged (London, 1681). In addition, there are copious notes on the margins of Worlidge's text. Altogether, when copied, the notes occupy more than 150 typed pages
"The First Steam Engine in America"
No full textIn September, 1753, the little snow Irene arrived in New Yorkafter a passage of twelve weeks from London with a cargo that included the first Newcomen or Cornish "fire engine" to reach America. Accompanied by a young British engineer, Josiah Hornblower, the primitive steam engine was destined for the famous copper mine owned by Colonel John Schuyler at Second River (now North Arlington) in New Jersey, where it was to be employed in pumping the deep shafts free of water
The Third Folio
No full textMcGinn speaks of the Library's purchased a fine copy of the Third Folio (1664) of William Shakespeare's plays. This volume takes its place between two copies of the Second Folio and one copy of the Fourth arleady owned by the Library
John Beauchamp Jones: A Southern View of the Abolitionists
No full textJohn Beauchamp Jones wrote a novel first called "Border War" (1859) and later republished in 1861 as "Secession, Coercion, and Civil War: the Story of 1861. Jones' novel is of interest , according to Lapides, as an indication of a Southern attitude toward the sectional strife that was to culminate in the Civil War. The Union, Jones believed, must be preserved. Yet as a Southerner, Jones believed that there were just grievances in the South against Northern politicians and abolitionists who sought to impose their beliefs upon the South
David Hosack and the Rutgers Medical College
No full textThe article is about Dr. David Hosack and the short-lived Rutgers Medical College which he administered from 1826 to 1827. This was third medical college at Rutgers. The first ran from 1792 to 1793 and the second from 1812 to 1816, when Rutgers was still Queen's College
Franz Schneeweiss: A '48er in New Brunswick
No full textEyck looks at a collection of papers on and by Franz Schneeweiss, an Austrian immigrant to New Brunswick, New Jersey, held in the Library. He left Austria after the abortive revolutions of 1848-1849 and arrived the United States in 1851 as a nineteen-year-old deserter from the imperial army of Austria. He became a promoter of German cullture in America and founded the Association for the Furtherance of German Sciences, whose aims were to deliver and discuss lectures of a scientific nature "with the strictest exclusion of non-Christian tendencies.
