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Rockwood, Charles Greene

JR., mathematician, was born Jan. 11, 1843, in New York city. He has filled the chair of mathematics in Bowdoin college, Rutgers college, and since 1877 in the Princeton university.

ROCKWOOD, GEORGE GARDNER, journalist, photographer, author, was born April 12, 1832, in Troy, N. Y. He was managing editor of the Troy Daily Post, Troy, N. Y. He became interested in photography in 1855; was the first to make the carte de visite photograph in this country. He is the author of the scientific hoax, Brain Pictures, which appeared in a New York paper in 1887.