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49; from Bryant: 52; from Munn: 57, 58. The follow- 

 ing were kindly loaned by Mr, Root: 7, 56, 59, 60, 64, 

 6«, 75. 76, 77. 80, S3, 83, 84, 85, 86, 89, 93, 94, 95, 97, 98, 

 99, 100, loi, 102, 109, no, III, 112, 113, 117, 122, 128, 

 139. 132, 133. 139. 152. 172. 173. 174. 182, 183, 185, 187; 

 from Mr. Newman: 29, 32, 87,90, 107, 119, 120, 121, 124, 

 127. 130. 135. 136, 155. 167, 169; from Mr. Jones: 62, 65, 

 123,131; fromMr.Heddon: 63,64,66,67,70,92,137,138; 

 from Mr. Lewis: 103; from Mr. Bingham: 108, 116; from 

 Mr. Muth: 104, 105, 134; from Mr. Stanley: 106; from 

 Mr. Whitman: 98; and from Mr. L. C. Root, 115. 



I wish again to express my thanks and gratitude to our 

 wide-awake American apiarists, without whose aid it would 

 have been impossible to have written this work. I am 

 under special obligation to Messrs. Cowan, Newman and 

 Root, and to my many students who have aided me, both 

 in the apiary and laboratory. 



As I stated in the preface to the eighth edition, it is my 

 desire and determination that this work shall continue to 

 be the exponent of the most improved apiculture; and no 

 pains will be spared, that each succeeding edition maj' 

 embody the latest improvements and discoveries wrought 

 out by the practical man and the scientist, as gleaned from 

 the excellent home and foreign apiarian and scientific 

 periodicals. 



A. J. COOK. 



State Agricultural College., Mich.., f^iy-, 1888. 



