On Sun, 7 Apr 1996, David. E. Goble wrote:
> Brother Adam was a bee researcher that was investigating the
> Italian strain of bees, near the end of his life the Buckfast
> bee strain was place in a number of location in the World to
> make available this strain.
Steady on with the past tense David, Bro. Adam was retired (at
93?) by the Abbot of Buckfast, so he now does much less work
than he used to. But I'm pretty sure he's still around! I met
him about 3 years ago and I'm sure I'd have heard if he wasn't.
Regards,
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