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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



November, 1921 



The Dr. C. C. Miller Memorial Fund 



An Appeal to Beekeepers Everywhere to Have a Part in Establishing the Miller Library of 



Beekeeping. 



DR, C.C. MILLER 



Eeceipts of contributions for 

 this Fund have been made in the 

 bee journals, and the thanks of 

 the committee vrhich has the 

 fund in charge are extended to 

 each contributor. These thanks 

 are extended in behalf of the 

 thousands of friends of Doctor 

 Miller everywhere, who are anx- 

 ious that this memorial shall be worthy of 

 the man. 



As is well known, the undersigned com- 

 mittee was chosen by C. P. Dadant to act 

 informally in collecting and expending the 

 money to be contributed by the many 

 friends of Doctor Miller. At the time of the 

 first announcements it was quite impossible 

 to tell what form the memorial should take, 

 and as a result the whole matter was pre- 

 sented in quite an indefinite way. Sugges- 

 tions were made to the committee of various 

 forms in which the memorial could be estab- 

 lished. Some desired a monument to be 

 erected at his grave; but this was quite dis- 

 approved by most of those with whom we 

 could talk, because it did not seem fitting 

 that Doctor Miller's memory should be per- 

 petuated in such a manner. 



Following out the widely approved idea 

 that this fund should be put to work for 

 the benefit of beekeeping for all time, which 

 is the type of memorial that fits the charac- 

 ter of our esteemed friend, the most feasible 

 suggestion seems to be to establish a library 

 in which may be collected the books, jour- 

 nals, and reprints of scientific articles on 

 bees and beekeeping, available to those who 

 desire to make special studies in this field. 

 Such a memorial will be less widely avail- 

 able than we would wish, but it follows out 

 the ideas of the many friends who are inter- 

 ested in the fund better than any other that 

 has come to us. This then is what we shall 

 work for. 



The location of the library is, of course, 

 still undecided, and the method of manage- 

 ment and the safeguarding of the funds for 

 the future are matters which can be deter- 

 mined only after we are able to know how 

 much will be available, but in any event 

 we hope to establish a fund which shall be 

 permanently invested so that the interest 

 shall be used for the furtherance of this li- 

 brary. 



For the funds available we know of. no 

 more important endowment than this one, 

 for there is today no library in the United 

 States that approaches completeness in 

 this field. There are several excellent pri- 

 vate libraries on beekeeping and also sev- 

 eral growing institutional libraries of great 

 value, but we hope as the years go by that 

 the Miller Library of Beekeeping will sur- 

 pass any of them. We also hope that con- 

 tributions of valuable books and pamphlets 

 will be made so that this Library will grow 

 rapidly. 



With this definite plan we make another 

 appeal to the beekeeping friends of the late 

 Doctor Miller to contribute still more lib- 

 erally than they have to this fund. Many 

 are able to increase their contributions and 

 a still larger number who have not contrib- 

 uted will now, we feel, be anxious to help 

 in this worthy cause. In contributing to a 

 lasting memorial of this kind we not only 

 honor the memory of a great friend but we 

 help in the furtherance of the industry in 

 which we are all so greatly interested. Con- 

 tributions may be sent to the editors of The 

 American Bee Journal and Gleanings in Bee 

 Culture, and will be acknowledged thru 

 these journals. May we not ask for greater 

 liberality now that we are able to announce 

 a more definite plan, and may we not all 

 unite in making this a project in which all 

 beekeepers thruout the world may take just 

 pride? 



We would also ask that at the meetings 

 of beekeepers for the next few months this 

 project be brought to the attention of those 

 in attendance so that they may have an 

 opportunity to make contributions. Several 

 beekeepers' associations have already taken 

 such action, and in this way liberal contrib- 

 utions have been made. We ask for the 

 hearty co-operation of each and every bee- 

 keeper in this movement and want each one 

 to feel that this is not merely an effort be- 

 ing made by a committee but that it is a 

 project dear to the heart of every beekeeper 

 everywhere. 



C. P. Dadant, 

 E. E. Eoot, 

 E. F. Phillips, 

 E. G. LeStourgeon, 

 B. F. Kindig. 



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