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last. Bat Mr. Corneil's health appears to 

 have been failing him during the spring. 

 The last letter I have from him bears date 

 March 3rd, 1894, and iu it he says : " The 

 Dr. advises me to do as little mental work 

 as possible. I have had several slight at- 

 tacks of vertigo within the past few weeks ; 

 but on this day two weeks I was brought 

 home, for the first time in my life, in a bus, 

 as limp as a rag. The Dr. says it is caused 

 by the failure of the stomach to do its work, 

 which, in turn, is caused by nervousness, the 

 result of mental overwork, and worry. 

 Hence his advice to ease ofif so as to allow 

 the stomach and nervous system to regain 

 their tone." 



I make this extract from a private letter 

 knowing it will be read with interest, and, I 

 trust, also with profit to the living — profit to 

 those who need and can take an admonition 

 of that kind, and I count myself among the 

 number. 



Personally, I had great respect for Mr. 

 Cornell, and enjoyed his intellectual com- 

 panionship whenever opportunity for per- 

 sonal intercourse or correspondence pre- 

 sented itself. Although on some subjects 

 outside of apiculture we differed in opinion, 

 and measured swords, Mr. Cornell was built 

 on too broad a plan to allow that to interfere 

 with the cordial relations of personal friend- 

 ship. 



Mr. Cornell was a fair scholar, an able and 

 accurate writer on apicultural subjects in 

 which it may be fairly said he was a close 

 observer and an original investigator. In 

 those branches of science cognate to the 

 science of apiculture he was well posted, and 

 was seldom found nodding in his contribu- 

 tions to the bee journals. Of course he was 

 "set" in his views and opinions, but that 

 may be tolerated in an intelligent and up- 

 right man. That he was enthusiastically 

 absorbed in the science and art of apicul- 

 ture goes without saying. And he "died in 

 harness" among his bees, with the hive he 

 was manipulating still uncovered. 



Mr. Cornell was the efficient Secretary of 

 the Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association at the 

 time of his death, and had been one of its 

 directors for many years, and its president 

 a few years ago. He was also one of the 

 successful delegates of Ontario bee-keepers 

 to the Indian and Colonial Exhibition in 

 London in 188(5. In 1890, I think, he met 

 some of our American friends at the North 



American Bee-Keepers' Association meeting 

 at Albany. 



Our Association will greatly miss Mr. Cor- 

 nell ; the bee journals on both sides will miss 

 him ; and the fraternity in general will miss 

 him, and deplore the fact that, in his own 

 language from his diary, he " forgot the 

 world and fell asleep." 



Seley, Ont. April 21, 1894. 



Some Foundation Pointers by Rambler. 



Careful good makers ! else you surely will 

 (Jet things too thick tor the bee's little bill. 





ence in the 

 m a n u f acture 

 of foundation 

 may be con- 

 sidered as lim- 

 ited. Still, 

 that experi- 

 ence covers 

 several years 

 and includes 

 the use of sev- 

 eral machines. I have used both the rolls 

 and the Given press. The rolls seem to give 

 a more uniform thickness to the base of the 

 cell which is readily observed by transmit- 

 ted light. With the press it is quite difficult 

 to get this uniformity of thickness. With 

 the press I used, a portion of the sheet of 

 foundation would have a very thin base, even 

 to the puncturing of little holes, while 

 another portion would be quite thick. To 

 overcome this defect it was necessary to 

 overlay portions of the dies with sheets of 

 paper until the pressure was uniform. This 

 overlaying, however, was not reliable, for the 

 next time the press was used, the overlaying 

 had to be renewed. For foundation to be 

 used in the brood chamber, I was not so par- 

 ticular to get the base uniform. The Given 

 foundation would not bear very rough hand- 

 ling, but it seemed to be accepted with won- 

 derful alacrity by the bees, and would be 

 drawn into comb when very little honey was 

 being gathered and when foundation from 

 the rolls would be neglected. The difference 

 between the two kinds would not be so 

 marked, or, perhaps, noticeable, during a 

 good flow of honey. Foundation can be 

 made quite rapidly on the press and the re- 

 sults, except for making thin foundation. 



