Excerpt from Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1917 NE cannot read the correspondence of Cadwallader Colden and peruse his philosophical and scientific papers without realizing what a gennis he was and wondering why he did not achieve greatness in the country he had served so faithfully during a long life. He is most familiarly known as the Tory Lieutenant Governor of New York at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War while his wonderful range Of knowl edge has been quite lost sight of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.