Hotels Elms and Bardin, New City, NY Courtesy of the Historical Society of Rockland County, New City, NY. Throughout its history New City's primary business has been as a home to governments of Rockland County and the town of Clarkstown.
First Pacific voyage. Abel Tasman was born in 1603 in Lutjegast in what is now the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. In 1633, Tasman went to Batavia in service of the VOC; four years later he was back in Amsterdam.Tasman signed on for another ten years and took his wife along to Batavia.n 1639 Tasman was sent as second in command of an exploring expedition in the north Pacific under Matthijs Quast. His fleet included the ships Engel and Gracht and reached Fort Zeelandia (Dutch Formosa) and Deshima.
August Weismann, in full August Friedrich Leopold Weismann, (born January 17, 1834, Frankfurt am Mainâdied November 5, 1914, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany), German biologist and one of the founders of the science of genetics, who is best known for his opposition to the doctrine of the inheritance of acquired traits and for his âgerm plasmâ theory, the forerunner of DNA theory.