This month the members of the Business Historical Society are receiving The Whitesmiths of Taunton, a History of Reed & Barton, 1824-1943, by George S. Gibb. This is the eighth volume in the Harvard Studies in Business History published at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration under the direction of Professor N. S. B. Gras. It is the first volume in the series to be devoted wholly to the history of a manufacturing concern.

Returning to Philadelphia after an unsuccessful trip to Louisiana in 1807 and 1808, Bollmann entered business again. When a character like Bollmann goes into business, he quite naturally turns promoter, and this Bollmann did in 1808. Foreign trade at the time being seriously interfered with by the struggle between England and France under Napoleon, Bollmann began with the promotion of domestic manufacture.