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VOL. IV. WENHAM, MASS., JANUARY i, 1886. No. i, 



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IN MEMORIAM: 

 WM. W. GARY. 



Bv Rev. L. L. Langstroth. 



Born in Coleraine, Mass., on Feb. 

 24, 1815, died on Dec. 9, 18S4. 



It affords me a melancholy satis- 

 faction to review my long acquaint- 

 ance with the late Mr. Wm. W. Gary, 

 and to set out more fully than has yet 

 been attempted, some of the impor- 

 tant services which he rendered to 

 beekeeping. To do this seems to me 

 the more obligatory, as he so seldom 

 used his pen for the press that these 

 services might fail to be put on 

 record. 



After testing quite largely my 

 movable-comb frames West Phila- 

 delphia, in the bee-season of 1852, in 

 1 



the fall of that year I went to Green- 

 field, Mass., to introduce my hive 

 where I \vas best known as a bee- 

 keeper. Mr. Gary kept some bees in 

 the adjoining town of Goleraine, and 

 was among the first to take an interest 

 in my invention. He was very fond 

 of bees, and more than usually 

 familiar with their habits — and as soon 

 as he saw the working of the hive, he 

 believed that it would make a revolu- 

 tion in beekeeping. For the si.x 



years that I remained in Greenfield, 

 we were in such frequent communi- 

 cation, tliat in furthering my experi- 

 ments his apiary was almost as much 

 at my service as my own. 



In the spring of i860, 1 was invited 

 by Mr. S. B, Parsons, of Flushing, 



