asm created by our response, which was 

 substantially as follows : 



Brother Apiarists : I cannot appropiately express 

 to you my thanks for the right-royal welcome you 

 have given to me. The very complimentary address 

 which preceeded the " toast," has, 1 fear, so far un- 

 nerved me that I shall be hardly able to reply. I am 

 fully sensible of the fact, however, that It is not in- 

 tended for me personally, but is accorded to the 

 official position 1 chance to occupy. In behalf, 

 therefore, of the great body of apiarists in America, 

 whom I have the distinguished honor to represent, 

 on this occasion, allow me to again thank you for 

 your most cordial and fraternal welcome. 1 accept 

 it as gratifying evidence of your good-will towards 

 our country and its progressive bee-culturists. 



This enthusiastic assembly gives me a fuller com- 

 prehension of the dignity of our mission, the magni- 

 tude of the work before us, and the exalted possi- 

 bilities that inspire us to fresh zeal and grander 

 achievement. Behold, how invention and art and 

 science have followed our pursuit— see how exalted 

 is the position it now occupies— the result of scien- 

 tific management of the " little busy bee." Indeed 

 I feel highly honored to represent so great a country 

 as America in your midst, and with you to form a 

 part of the onward, sweeping tide of destiny. 



We have but just now ended the first Century of 

 our National history, while you can boast of twenty 

 centuries tilled with deeds of heroism and glory. As 

 a result, your time-honored flag now waves over so 

 much of earth's surface that it is said, "the sun 

 never sets " on the might of your vast domain. 



In history, it is true, America is "but a child," but 

 pardon my enthusiasm while I say that, for prodigious 

 achievement, it is a Giant ! My " bosom swells with 

 pride " when I contemplate the little Atlantic belt, 

 composing the thirteen colonies of "a hundred 

 years ago" and compare it with the America of to- 

 day ! See how " the Star of Empire " has spread 

 over almost a Continent ! The " Stars and Stripes " 

 now "wave in triumph" from the granite hills of 

 New England " to " the Goldon Gate of the Pacific!" 

 Our mighty Empire is now bound by bands of steel 

 and lines of electric intelligence from the Atlantic 

 to the Pacific. The civilization and enterprise of 

 our sons have bidden the forest to " blossom like a 

 rose"— the broad prairieand limitless plain to "bear 

 fruit abundantly " that your teeming millions might 

 be fed and made to rejoice ! Already the " notes of 

 triumph " burden the air from Ocean to Ocean, and 

 very soon the hills and valleys, prairies and forests, 

 villages and cities will unite in " the swelling chorus " 

 of the grand anthem sung by a World over the mar- 

 riage of the Nations, the birth of the New Era, and 

 the complete unification of the race. 



We can now see that we had touched 

 a cord which vibrates in all the breasts 

 of the progressive spirits of Europe as 

 well as America. 



We point with great satisfaction to 

 the fact that progressive apiarists, the 

 world over, are feeling that their inter- 

 ests are one, and that we are all a band 

 of brothers. 



As evidence of the existence of this 

 fraternal feeling, on the European 



Continent as well as in Britain, we re- 

 fer to the following letter from the 

 President and Secretary of the Swiss 

 Society of Apiculture, with whom we 

 visited several apiaries and spent a 

 most enjoyable time : 



Nyon, Switzerland, Sept. 5, 1S79. 

 To the Hon. Tliamas G. Newman, President of the 



Association of Apiculture of North America and 



Editor of the American Bee Journal, Chicago, 111.: 

 Dear Sir— 



We have the honor to inform you, that, in order 

 to show their appreciation of the very valuable ser- 

 vices you have rendered to Apiculture, the Societe 

 Romande d'Apicutteur have at their General Assem- 

 bly on August 21st 1870, unanimously elected you to 

 an honorary membership of their said Society. 



We take this occasion, Sir, to offer you our hearty 

 thanks for the honor you have shown us, by attend- 

 ing our Assembly. You were, indeed, a very wel- 

 come guest among us, and ardently did we press the 

 friendly hand, which through you, the Apiarists of 

 North America extended to -us across the Ocean. 

 We assure you that we will do all we can to maintain 

 and cultivate the friendly relations, which were 

 through you established between us. 



We sincerely pray for your safe arrival among 

 your own people, and we assure you, Sir that we 

 fully appreciate your distinguished visit. 



For the Societie Rumande d'Apieulteur. 



C. T>u Uibeancourt, President. 



Ed. Bertrand, Secretary. 



As a further evidence of this state of 

 feeling, we present the following letter 

 from Mons. Dennler, editor of the 

 Alsacian Bienen-Zuechter, whom we met 

 in London and afterwards at his home: 



Enzheim, Germany, Nov. 10, 1879. 

 My Dear Mr. Newman : 



How quickly time flies ! Three months have al- 

 ready elapsed since I enjoyed the honor of your 

 visit at Enzheim, 1 have read with great interest 

 the reports of your long European tour, published 

 in your Journal, and how well you was received by 

 all the bee-keepers of the various countries through 

 which you traveled. I am quite anxious to see your 

 report of the American Convention, at Chicago, 

 which no doubt has made its appearance in your 

 JOURNAL bv this time. The European Bee-keepers 

 were quite enchanted by your presence in Prague. 

 All the journals devoted to bee-keeping in Germany 

 and Austria have made mention of your visit. 



Your German book : " Bee-Culture ; or Successful 

 Management of the Apiary," which you left me as a 

 keepsake, is well written and deserves a large cir- 

 culation among us. 0. OENNLER. 



This article is already much longer 

 than we intended, and we will let it 

 close with the following letter from the 

 Eev. L'Abbe L. DuBois, a prominent 

 clergyman of France, and an enthusi- 

 astic apiarist : 



LaMalmaison, Prance, Nov. 28.1879. 

 Honored Sir— You have now returned from your 

 voyage and will have come to the conclusion, from 

 what you have obseived in France, that bee-culture 



