After many months of waiting the first ten volumes of 90 selected
candidates from the E.F. Phillips rare beekeeping book collection are
now available for anyone with internet access at >
http://bees.library.cornell.edu/ <.
Thanx must go out to EAS for starting a challenge for matched
donations > http:easternapiculture.org <. However, other Beekeeping
Associations in the US have made generous donations as have
individuals. One must also recognize the helpful Mann Library staff
who will continue to work on this project
You can become a part of this valuable project by donating as well!!
Either look to the main site above or go to the EAS site to get
information in PDF format >
http://easternapiculture.org/programs/phillips.pdf<.
This is one part of an initiative to digitize early american
agricultural literature at Mann Library at Cornell University for "The
Core Historical Literature of Agricultural" >
http://chla.library.cornell.edu/ <
Original text/figures can be viewed as well as a text version that can
be searched & downloaded. This is an exciting initiative that started
with the vision by E.F. Phillips himself >
http://bees.library.cornell.edu/b/bees/about.html <. Finally the WWW
makes it possible for beekeepers to see these valuable works by early
American beekeeping authors.
Here is the list of books now available for search on line at >
http://bees.library.cornell.edu/ <.
• Alley, Henry. The beekeeper's handy book, or, Twenty-two years'
experience in queen-rearing, containing the only scientific and
practical method of rearing
queen bees, and the latest and best methods for the general
management of the apiary Henry Alley, Wenham, Mass. : 1883.
• Doolittle, Gilbert M.. Scientific queen-rearing as practically
applied; being a method by which the best of queen-bees are... T. G.
Newman, Chicago : 1889.
• Dzierçzon, Jan. Dzierzon's rational bee-keeping, or, The theory
and practice of Dr. Dzierzon Houlston & sons, London : 1882.
• Huber, Franđcois. New observations on the natural history of bees
Printed for J. Anderson ; Edinburgh : 1806.
• Langstroth, L.L. Langstroth on the hive and the honey-bee; a bee
keeper's manual... Hopkins, Bridgman, Northampton : 1853.
• Miller, C. C. Fifty years among the bees A. I. Root Co., Medina,
Ohio : 1911.
• Munn, W. Augustus. A description of the bar-and-frame hive John
Van Voorst, London : 1844.
• Phillips, Everett Franklin. Beekeeping [1915?]
• Quinby, M. Mysteries of bee-keeping explained; being a complete
analysis of the whole subject : ... C. M. Saxton & Co., New York :
1853.
• Root, A. I. The A B C of bee culture; a cyclopµdia of everything
pertaining to the care ... A.I. Root, Medina, Ohio : 1879.
Mike Griggs
President Finger Lakes Beekeepers
PResident EAS 2002
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