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Queen-Rearing in England, with Notes on a Scent-peodttcing Organ 

 IN THE Worker-Bee. The IIoney-Bees of India and Enemies of the 

 Honey-Bee in South Africa By F. W. L. Sladen, F.E.S. Pp. i— vi and 

 1—56. London : Houlston and Sons, Paternoster Square, E.G. ; and " British Bee 

 Journal " Office, 10, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C. 



Tills little treatise gives a very interesting account of the most modern methods 

 of breeding queen bees, and gives illustrations of the contrivances used to induce 

 the workers to raise new queens, when from some reason the original queen has been 

 removed from the hive or shows signs of failure. It is arranged under eight head- 

 ings : 1. Queen rearing in Nature ; 2. Modern Queen rearing ; 3. Nuclei and 

 fertilization of Queens ; 4. How to save Queens reared under the Swarming im- 

 pulse ; 5. Drones and Drone rearing ; 6. Introduction of Queens and sending 

 Queens by post ; 7- Races of Bees ; 8. Breeding for Improvements ; followed by 

 the notes mentioned in the title. 



We recommend this not only to Beekeepers, but to any Entomologist who 

 wishes to learn the adaptability of the Hive Bee to its surroundings. — E. S. 



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Br. Alpheus S. Packard. — On February 14th, 1905, Professor Alpheus Spring 

 Packard departed this life at Providence, Rhode Island. He was born in 1839 at 

 Brunswick, Maine, where his father at the time held a distinguished position in the 

 Faculty of Bowdoin College. Young Packard graduated with high honours from 

 Bowdoin in 1861, and after completing a course in medicine at Harvard in 1864, he 

 immediately entered the service of his country as an Assistant Surgeon in the United 

 States Army, in wliich capacity lie served until the close of the Great War of the 

 Eepublic in 1865. 



Already in boyhood he had become deeply imbued with the love of Nature and 

 scientific research, and had made such progress along these lines that when he gave 

 up his commission in the army he was at once chosen to be the Librarian and 

 Custodian of the Museum of the Boston Society of Natural History. While 

 holding this position he entered enthusiastically upon advanced studies, guided in 

 some measure by the elder A gassiz, and being affiliated by his tastes and pursuits 

 with that company of choice young men who, deriving their inspiration from Louis 

 Agassiz, have left in their work the most enduring monument to their great teacher. 

 Great as have been the services which these have rendered to the cause of science 

 in America, none of them have exceeded in the amount of careful and original work 

 performed by the indefatigable efforts of A. S. Packard. 



After holding the Custodianship of the Boston Society of Natural History for 

 some time he became Curator of the Essex Institute, afterwards Curator and sub- 

 sequently Director of the Peabody Academy of Science. From 1877 to 1882 he was 

 a member of the United Slates Entomological Commission ; and from 1878 until the 

 time of his death he was Professor of Zoology and Geology in Brown University, 

 Providence, R. I. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Entomological 

 Society of London in 1884. 



