138 BEE CULTURE, 
tor of the AMERICAN BEE JoURNAL, was present, and gave 
lectures on American bee-keeping, which were very interest- 
ing. The Society presented to him a medal as a souvenir of 
his visit to this country, and for the valuable services he has 
rendered to the present session of the Society.” 
For exhibiting bees, observatory hives were used—those 
having glass sides, through which the bees may be seen at 
work—the hives being inside the exhibition building, with a 
tube covering the entrance, and running through the side of 
the building, giving free passage, in and out, for the bees. 
Fig. 104.—Bee Tent near Column Vase. 
Sometimes, a glass box inclosing each frame, arranged like 
leaves of a book, with a common entrance to all of them, 
from the tube running through the side of the building, is 
made to exhibit bees. This gives an opportunity for thorough 
examination of the whole colony. 
THE EFFECT OF BEE AND HONEY SHOWS. 
A correspondent in the London Horticultural Journal, says: 
“T ean state without fear of contradiction that never in the 
memory of man has there been such a desire to keep bees as 
at the present time. People here have been so encouraged in 
