From: [log in to unmask] (Gunnar Thygesen)
 
Hi [log in to unmask] ,
 
15-Nov-96 02:28:29, [log in to unmask] wrote to BEE-L
          Subject: Top Bar Hives (TBHs)
Well Joel, you wrote a fine and comprehensive story about the TBHs but
did Langtroth discover the bee space and the frame idea?
According the book ' Some Important Operations in Bee Management'
by T.S.K and M.P. Johansson 1978 issued by International Bee Research
Association Chapter 10: Lorenzo L. Langstroth and the Bee Space he did
not and he never claimed that he did. Quote: We now have collected
considerable evidence that he himself took pains to disavow such an
assertion but somehow these went unheeded. Unquote. That was about the
bee space. About the frames he made notes in his third edition of
his book in preparation of the fourth edition which was never issued
because of his illness. Langtroth intended to insert as a first paragraph
to the introduction that he knew about Dr Bevan's work based upon Huber's
work. Further he noted on page 15: Here state only Huber - Bevan - give
some account of Munn and Debeauvoys - with plates etc etc. He also
mentioned Dzierzon hive.
But read the chapter because there is much more said by himself but
too much to be quoted here, the chapter is on 10 pages.
 
Regards Gunnar
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