APPENDICES. 555 
a. 
Extracts rrom Dr. Evans's Porm. 
Most apiarian works of recent publication have contained 
a larger or smaller number of quotations from the above 
writer, who has been well termed the apiarian laureate. We 
have not in this edition made any change in the poetical 
extracts inserted by our author hinself, but our strong pre- 
dilection for “The Bees” of Dr. Evans renders us unwilling 
to let the book leave our hands without furnishing our 
readers with some opportunity of looking into its undeniable 
nierits. The author was at one time a physician of Shrews- 
bary, but he subsequently removed into and died in Wales. 
His poem was in four parts, though only three of these appear 
ever to have been published; but in a presentation copy in 
the possession of Mr. A. Neighbour, to which we had access 
while engaged upon the revision of “The Apiary,” there is 
a written memorandum stating that the fourth part existed 
in manuscript ready for the press in the possession of the 
family. On the strength of this we wrote letters of enquiry 
to more than one medical man, but wholly in vain. The 
gentleman known as “A Renfrewshire Bee-Keeper” was how- 
ever engaged simultaneously in the same effort, and proves 
to have been more persevering and successful, though only 
in reaching the disappointing result, that the only survivor 
out of a family of eleven could simply give him no informa- 
tion at all. Should the lost part happily ever come to light 
it will prove a real treasure to apiarian literature; but we 
fear the idea is a hopeless one.* 
Dr. Bevan cited a large number of passages from this 
poem, and many of these have been repeated by Mr. Lang- 
stroth and others. The present editor added several to those 
which were already given in Mr. Neighbour’s work, and from 
the total of those now contained therein the following may prove 
an acceptable selection. 
* The carelessness or ignorance which has allowed such a document to 
perish may suggest to some of us a reflection such as this :— 
Degenerate scions of the gifted sire! 
His “words that burn” they thought should light the fire. 
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