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Aaron Morris <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:43:59 -0500
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> Where is LL Langstroth's journal?
It is in the Mann Library.  I do not think that Langstroth's original
manuscript has been digitized.  I doubt it ever will be.  Langstroth
should have been a physician, his handwriting is illegible!  He suffered
from what I suspect may have been bipolar disease, diagnosed as
"maladies of the brain" in the mid-1860s.  At times his writings were in
reverse/mirror image, something also done by DaVinci (although DaVinci
did it on purpose).  I was privileged to see and read Langstroth's
original manuscript at the Eastern Apicultural Society conference in
2002.  Well, to say I "read" it is a stretch at best, his handwriting
was atrocious!  I believe Langstroth's wife had to decipher the original
journal.  Anyway, Mike will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think
Langstroth's original manuscript has been digitized.

Aaron Morris - I think, therefore I bee!

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