MEMORIAL OF M. QUINBY. 
By Capt. J. E. Herwerinaton, Curerry Vauiey, N. Y. 
I approach the task before me with mingled feelings 
of love, admiration, and duty ; love for the man, cemented 
by intimate friendly relations with him for more than 
twenty years. J went to him when a mere lad for in- 
struction in bee-culture, and he so beautifully unveiled 
the wonderful mysteries of the natural history and prac-: 
tical management of the honey-bee, that I left him that- 
day, impressed as I had never been before. As I after- 
wards learned to know him, I found that his kind, 
considerate manner, and evident pleasure in imparting 
instruction, were but the manifestation of qualities of 
heart and purpose, strongly marked in his character. 
My admiration for his sterling, manly attributes, and 
eminently useful life, inspire me to attempt, in a small 
measure, to discharge a duty resting on me, in common 
with every bee-keeper in the land; that of putting in 
some enduring form, a tribute to his unselfish life-work 
in promoting the science of bee-culture. 
His writings have made their impress on bee-literature, 
and his name is familiar in every home where honey 
bees are kept for pleasure or profit. Thousands are 
to-day enjoying a delicious and wholesome article of 
food that would have remained ungathered, except for 
his earnest advocacy of the business as a source of revenue 
to the nation, and profit to the bee-keeper. He wasever 
unselfishly urging people to adopt this calling, that the 
millions of pounds of honey annually going to waste, 
might be garnered for the use of mankind ; and he devoted 
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