From, Historical Honeybee Articles 
Floriferis ut apes In saltibus omnla libant

This the first in a 3 part series on Edward Bevan, 
to be sent out as a Special Notice to subscribers 
of the Historical Honeybee Articles site over the
next 3 days, and cross post to Bee-L for the 
purpose of informing about this most notable 
person in scientific beekeeping history. 

I thought it fitting to inform first, with a 
few short biographies of Bevan. Please find 
below, the first Special Notice, titled: 

Edward Bevan - A Biography of A Scientific Apiarian.
Complete with source reference. 

(The 2nd and 3rd Special Notices to be sent over the 
next few days, are articles from 1843 in which writers 
from the National Intelligencer (over 160 years ago),
review in an 'older fashion' the much anticipated 
1843 American edition of The Honey Bee: 
Its Natural History, Physiology, and Management, 
by Edward Bevan, 
to “give an exact account of our author, and whatever 
in his subject seems to us fittest to be presented to
our readers.”)  

===== Edward Bevan, a brief Biography =====

Source:
W.E.B. Du Boise Library
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass.
http://www.library. umass.edu/ spcoll/exhibits/ bees/bevan. htm

A physician and well known apiarist, Edward Bevan 
(1770-1860) faced a raft of hardships in his youth, 
including the death of both parents when he was an 
infant followed, at the age of eight, by the death of his 
uncle and guardian. Studying medicine in London and,
later, Scotland, Bevan achieved a level of financial 
independence that allowed his to retire by his late 40s, 
after which he devoted himself to bee culture.

A foundational text for modern beekeeping, Bevan's 
The Honey Bee (1827, 2nd edition 1838, American edition 1843) 
offers a broad overview of apiculture. Attempting to combine 
"the profitable with the instructive and amusing," Bevan provided 
a readable, yet scholarly look at managing bee hives. The final 
part of this text is an in depth study of bee anatomy and behavior.

The 1827 edition can be found here:
The honey bee; its natural history, physiology, and management - 1827
By Edward Bevan
http://www.archive. org/details/ honeybeeitsnatur 00bevarich

===== Edward Bevan Biography =====

Source:
Dictonary of National Biography
by George Smith - 1885
Page 444
http://books. google.com/ books?id= KwMJAAAAQAAJ& pg=PA444

Bevan, Edward, M.D. (1770-1860), 
physician and an eminent apiarian, was born, in London 
on 8 July 1770. Being left fatherless in early infancy, 
he was received into the house of his maternal grandfather, 
Mr. Powle, of Hereford, and at the age of eight was placed 
at the grammar school, Woottonunder- Edge, where he 
remained for four years. He was afterwards removed to the 
college school at Hereford, and it having been determined 
that he should adopt medicine as a profession, he was 
apprenticed to a surgeon in that town. He then proceeded to
London, was entered as a student at St. Bartholomew' s 
Hospital, and during three sessions of attendance on the 
lectures of his instructors Abernethy, Latham, and Austin, 
he acquired the honourable appellation of 'the indefatigable.' 
His degree of M.D. was obtained from the university of 
St. Andrew's in 1818. He commenced practice at Mort- 
lake as assistant to Dr. John Clarke. After five years so 
spent he settled on his own account first at Stoke-upon-
Trent, and then at Congleton. There he married the second 
daughter of Mr. Cartwright, an apothecary, one of the last 
of the ' bishops ' of a sect called the primitive Christian 
church. After twelve years' residence in Cheshire, his 
health not bearing the fatigue of a country business, Bevan 
again returned to Mortlake, and practised there for two 
years, but with a like result. He thereupon retired to a small 
estate at Bridstow, near Ross, in Herefordshire, where he 
devoted himself to the development of an apiary which he 
found already established on his newly acquired property. 
Previous to this he had, in 1822, assisted his friend Mr. 
Samuel Parkes in the preparation of the third and revised 
edition of the latter's ' Rudiments of Chemistry.' The first 
edition of his book on bees was issued in 1827, with the 
title, `The Honey- Bee : its Natural History, Physiology, 
and Management.' This treatise at once established the 
author's reputation as a scientific apiarian, and was read 
wherever the bee is regarded as an object of interest. The 
second edition, published in 1838, is dedicated to her 
Majesty. In it the author has included much new and 
valuable matter. A third edition, by W. A. Munn, appeared 
in 1870. Bevan also wrote a paper on the ' Honey-Bee 
Communities ' in the first volume of the ' Magazine of 
Zoology and Botany,' and published a few copies of 
' Hints on the History and Management of the Honey-Bee,' 
which had formed the substance of two lectures read before
the Hereford Literary Institution in the winter of 1850-51. 
He had from 1849 fixed his residence at Hereford, where 
he died on 31 Jan. 1860, when within a few months of 
completing his ninetieth year As a public man Bevan was 
shy and retiring, but was much beloved in the circle of his 
private acquaintances. It is recorded as a proof of the 
esteem in which he was held, that on the occasion of a 
great flood in the Wye, in February 1802, washing away 
all the doctor's beehives, a public subscription was raised, 
and a new apiary presented to him, of which, as a very 
pleasing substitute for what he had playfullv called his 
' Virgilian Temple,' the venerable apiarian was justly proud.
Bevan was one of the founders of the Entomological 
Society in 1833.

Best Wishes,
Joe Waggle
Historical Honeybee Articles
Floriferis ut apes In saltibus omnla libant
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalHoneybeeArticles/

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