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ment. It is evident from Kleine's work, that he knew nothing 

 either of Munn or his hive. 



In 1847, Jacob Shaw, Jr., then of Hinckley, Ohio, pub- 

 lished in the Scientific American, March 5th, 1847, p. 187, 

 the description of a hive devised by him. A person who has 

 seen the hive tells me that as described and first used, this 

 hive had close-fitting frames, which rested in a double-walled 

 tin box. By turning hot water into the chamber, the frames 

 would be loosened. We do not wonder that, as Mr. Shaw 

 deposed, he only made one hive, and that he could only per- 

 suade one colony of the several which he tried, to accept the 

 situation, and that this one soon perished. He got no surplus, 

 and wisely set the hive aside. 



In 1847, the well known agricultural writer, Solon Robin- 

 son, Suggested in an article published in the Albany Cultiva- 

 tor, a tin hive made up of unicomb apartments which should 

 set close side by side, and be connected by inter-communica- 

 ting holes. Of course, such a hive would only succeed in the 

 imagination. 



M. Debeauvoys published, in 1847, the 2d edition of 

 " Guide de I'Apiculteur," at Angers, France, in which he 

 described a movable comb hive, to meet the practical wants 

 of French bee-keepers. This hive was not only no improve- 

 ment on that of Huber, but even less easy of manipulation. 

 The top-bar and uprights of the frames were close-fitting to 

 the top and sides of the hive. Says M. Hamet, editor of the 

 French bee paper, in his work, " Cours Pratique D'Apieul- 

 ture," 1859 edition: "The removal of the frames is more 

 difficult than from the Huber hive, and it has never been 

 accepted by the practical bee-keepers of France." Mr. Chas. 

 Dadant describes this hive, which he once made and used, in the 

 American Bee Journal, vol. 7, p. 197. He says of it : " The 

 hive worked well when new and empty ; but after the bees 

 had glued the frames, it was difficult to remove them without 

 breaking the combs. It would have been entirely impos- 

 sible to remove them at all, without separating the ends 

 of the hive from the frames with a chisel. This hive, which 

 had gained 2,500 proselytes in France, was very soon aban- 

 doned by all, and the disciples of Debeauvoys returned to 

 the old-fashioned straw hive." He adds, further, that these 



