BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES DADANT. 
Mr. Charles Dadant was born May 22, 1817, at Vaux- 
Sous-Aubigny, in the golden hills of Burgundy, France. 
After his education in the College of Langres, he went 
into the mercantile business in that city, but ill-success 
induced him to remove toAmerica. He settled in Hamil- 
ton, Ilinois, in 1863, and founda profitable occupation in 
bee-culture, which in his hands yielded marvelous results. 
He soon became noted as one of the leading apiarists of 
the world. 
After a few years of trial he made atrip to Italy, in 
1873, to import the bees of that country to America. 
Though at first unsuccessful, he persisted in his efforts 
and finally achieved great success. He was the first to lay 
down rules for the safe transportation of queen bees 
across the sea, which is now amatter of daily occurence. 
Later on, in partnership with his son C. P. Dadant, he 
undertook the manufacture of comb foundation which 
has been continued by the firm, together with the manage- 
ment of several large apiaries, run almost exclusively for 
the production of extracted honey. 
Although well versed in the English language which 
he had mastered at the age of forty-six, with the help of 
a pocket dictionary, Mr Dadant was never able to speak 
it fluently and many of the readers of his numerous writ- 
ings were astonished when meeting him to find that he 
could converse with difficulty. His writings were not 
confined to American publications, forin 1870 he began 
writing for European bee-journals and continued to do so 
until his methods were adopted, especially in Switzerland, 
France andItaly, where the hive which he recommended 
is now known under his name. Fortwenty years he was 
a regular contributor to the Revue Internationale D’ Api- 
culture, and theresult has been that there is probably not 
another bee-writer whose name is so thoroughly known, 
the world over. 
Mr. Dadant has been made an honorary member of 
more than twenty bee-keepers associations throughout the 
world and his death which occured July 16, 1902, was 
lamented by every bee publication on both continents. 
Mr. Dadant was a congenial man, and a philosopher. 
He retained his cheerfulness of spirit to his last day. 
In addition to his supervision of the revision of this 
book, he was the author of a small treatise on bees, ‘‘Petit 
Cours d’Apiculture Pratique’’. He also published in 
connection with his sona pamphlet on ‘‘Extracted honey’’, 
1881, now out of print. The translation of Langstroth 
Revised into the French language was also undertaken 
by their united effort. This book has since been re-trans- 
lated into the Russian language. 
