FRAME HIVES. 87 
FRAME HIVES. 
Our author in his last edition gave to the new 
introduction of frames a very brief and hesitating 
notice. They were at that date (1860) in the position 
of a device which nobody in this country had prac- 
tically tried. They appear to have been invented 
quite independently in England, America, and 
Germany; and their final elaboration was so gradual 
a process that it is no simple task to assign the chief 
honour to any one person. Major Munn, a friend of 
Dr. Bevan, and the reviser of his famous work ‘‘ The 
Honey Bee,” would seem, however, to possess a@ 
clearer title than any other whom we could name, 
though unfortunately his invention was so hampered 
by faults of impracticability, that it fell upon the 
world almost stillborn. It was in 1851, ten years 
after the Major’s obtaining his patent, that Mr. Lang- 
stroth brought out his hive, in the full belief that he 
was absolutely the first inventor of the bar-frames. 
He has subsequently relinquished his claim, but 
his inventions were of immense service in extending 
the adoption of this invaluable scheme. The re- 
introduction of the frame system into this country 
was effected in 1860 by Mr. Tegetmeier; but his 
adaptation met with little more acceptance than 
Major Munn’s had received before it, and it was the 
indefatigable My. Woodbury who really made frame 
hives known to English apiculturists. In Germany 
the movable bars were the invention of Dzierzon in 
1837, while in 1853 the frames were added by Baron 
von Berlepsch. 
