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and that : " When the resistance of the 

 living tissue cells ceased, the spores of 

 bacillus alvei floating in the air made a 

 lodgment, and found in the dead larvae 

 a congenial medium for their growth." 

 Mr. Cornell himself is the father of the 

 doctrine that "the spores of bacillus are 

 floating in the air," and that the spores 

 seize upon "dead larvae" (?) If foul- 

 brood spores do float in the air as per 

 Cornell, all " dead larvae " is subject to 

 being a "lodgment" for the floating 

 spores. This doctrine that Mr. Cornell 

 promulgated concerning spores of foul- 

 brood floating in the air is more ridicu- 

 lous than his ominous heralding of the 



periodicals to find what I had written, 

 and he found in the Bee-Keepers' Ex- 

 change, for 1882, an article that I 

 wrote on the subject of foul-brood, and 

 he quotes a sentence, from which he 

 assumes to tell readers of the Bee Jour- 

 nal that they "will be surprised to 

 learn " that I was aware of Dr. Shoen- 

 feld's experiments previous to the 

 announcement of my "pretended dis- 

 covery." That is, I claimed to be the 

 first who discovered that foul-brood is a 

 germ disease, when I well knew that 

 Shoenfeld had announced, years before, 

 just what I aimed to palm off as my own 

 discovery. 



HOME APIARY OF C. SCHLIESMAYER, PASADENA, CALIF. 



idea that foul-brood may occur by 

 contagion on comb-foundation. 



Mr. Cornell says : " Mr. Robinson 

 might better have conceded this point 

 (that foul-brood seriously effects mature 

 bees) with the others." I am not so 

 impudent as to advise Mr. C. what he 

 " better " do or not do, but I suggest that 

 he has something to write about in the 

 support and defense of his doctrine — all 

 his own — that foul-brood germs that 

 were "floating in the air" found a lodg- 

 ment in the dead larv;» in the combs of 

 brood I exposed. 



Mr. Cornell makes an attempt to 

 impress readers with the belief that I 

 am guilty of fraudulent "inconsisten- 

 cies." He examined the files of the bee- 



What are the facts in the case ? 

 Referring to the article in the Bee- 

 Keepers' Exchange, I stated there that 

 " if the fermentation has been favorable 

 for the development of the virus, that 

 will reproduce the putrid fermentation, 

 then the so-called foul-brood is present, 

 originating spontaneously by reason of 

 the peculiar fermentative process — that 

 every iota of the putrid matter will, like 

 a ' little leaven, leaven the whole ' — that 

 Shoenfeld, of Germany, was the first 

 who demonstrated by experiment — in- 

 fected healthy brood with foul — and thus 

 discovered that the poison is transmitted 

 from hive to hive." In other words, I 

 referred to Shoenfeld as being the first 

 who determined by experiment that 



