INTRODUCTION. 



Stratton Strllt, 

 Dccembcf 6l/i, 1885. 



Deak Mr. Jexvns, 



I am much gratified by your kind wish 

 to dedicate to me your valuable educational con- 

 tribution on Bees and Bee-keeping. 



This industry has made a rapid progress under 

 the fostering care of the British Bee-keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, and the untiring zeal of its late esteemed 

 Honorary Secretary, the Rev. H. R. Peel. Bees 

 now rank as fellow -workers in the objects of- the 

 Royal Agricultural Society ; and, through the form- 

 ation of the British Honey Company, they are 

 linked with those industrial and commercial projects, 

 which seek to promote the food supply of the people 

 at large, and to render it plentiful and wholesome. 



In this book you point out very justly that Bees 

 and Bee-keeping can be made subservient to an 

 educational purpose, and also possess an interest 

 under this aspect of no small value. 



