THE OBSERVER APIARIAN LABORATORY 



The Largest and Best-equipped Experimental and Scientific Apiary in the United 



States is located at Stamford, Ct. It is under the management and person- 

 al work of Edward F. Bigelow, A.M., Ph.D., "The Nature-study Man, " 

 well-known to all readers of Gleanings in Bee Culture. This laboratory 

 is well-equipped with experimental cages, apparatus, and appliances. It 

 contains eight educational hives in four different designs (made by The 

 A. I. Root Company) . There are thirty-eight colonies at present under 

 careful experiment and observation. In direct connection with the labora- 

 tory is a photograph gallery fitted with cameras and high-grade lenses, in- 

 cluding a 6 1-2 X 8 1-2 photo-micrographic camera fitted with acetylene and 

 oxy-hydrogen light, far beyond the power and scope of the ordinary labora- 

 tory. A sample of the work of this laboratory was ' ' The Story of Honey- 

 comb," published in Gleanings in Bee Culture for August 1, 1907. To 

 that article Editor Root had the following introduction: 



' ' The following article by Professor Edward F. Bigelow, the nature-study man, 

 lecturer, and one of the editors of St. Nicholas Magazine on the subject of honey-comb, 

 its construction and development, is one of the best if not THE best that was ever written. 

 The photographs are superb, and instructive as well as interesting. The article as a 

 whole will be incorporated in the next edition of our A B C of Bee Culture, now in process 

 of revision, and, later on, made the subject of a special booklet. ' ' 



Other articles equally or more instructive and entertaining are now in 

 preparation. Much of the work of this laboratory, in the future, will be 

 pubhshed in 



THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



Subscription, $1,50 per year. Address: Stamford, Connecticut, for full parti- 

 culars, including departments of pets, plants, travel, etc. 



