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press of the MacMillan Company, a new work on "Beekeeping" by 

 Dr. E. F. Phillips. After a hasty survey we are certain there are 

 unique and valuable features in this monograph just mentioned, 

 but will only add, now, that a review of its scope and methods will 

 be made in the columns of the Review at no distant date. Meantime 

 any, who desire it, may secure a copy of the volume from the pub- 

 lishers in New York. — E. G. B. 



On page 369 and 370 of the October number of the Review, 

 the titles of the two cuts shown on those two pages have been trans- 

 posed. "What an English Hive Looks Like" page 369 should have 

 appeared under cut on next page, and "An Old Fashioned Skep" 

 should have appeared under Straw Skep illustration on page 369. 



We at this office are not blind to the fact that there have sev- 

 eral mistakes occurred in the Review along back, but it is hoped 

 and expected that less mistakes will occur in the future. 



The middle of September we spent a day or so in Washington, 

 D. C. enjoying a long-anticipated visit with Dr. E. F. Phillips and 

 his genial assistant, Mr. Demuth. They have ample and excel- 

 lent quarters on the edge of the city, really in Maryland, not Dist. 

 of Columbia but so far as trolley connections or autos are con- 

 cerned, really in the suburbs of Washington. 



Nearly sixty colonies of bees are on their stands there, all be- 

 longing to the Experiment Station. Next to the noble and frank 

 cordiality of our good friend. Dr. Phillips, we enjoyed most of all 

 the insight we gained into the wonderful series of experiments 

 going on there. The thousands of readings Dr. Phillips and Mr. 

 Demuth have taken by means of the thermo-couple, from five hives, 

 on their winter stands, the entrancing discoveries they have reached 

 in a chain of readings recorded from September 20, 1914 to March 

 20, 1915 by the dozens of delicate wires, conducted from each hive 

 to their indicator-board, all result in an almost epoch-making chain 

 of conclusions regarding the winter cluster of a colony of bees. It 

 must all be seen, and more, explained, to be appreciated. We are 

 safe in saying that it would be difficult to find two men better 

 suited to the work in hand than Dr. Phillips and Mr. Demuth. 



We urge any and all, who chance near the capitol city, to turn 

 aside a few hours from the pursuit of business or pleasure and visit 

 the mysterious bee-house at Somerset Heights and see for them.- 

 selves. There is "something doing" there all right! — E. G. B. 



