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oblong frame, and in April, 1851, published a second edi. 
tion of his pamphlet, describing his “improved hive” with 
his “ triangular bar-frames, made to lift out of the top.” 
Others have made their frames to slide in and out edge- 
wise ; in others, the frames partly lift and partly slide out 
edgewise, as in the “California hive.” 
PATENT HIVES.-FRAMES. 
“The Langstroth Hive, like the Huber and Munn hives, is con- 
structed on the movable-comb principle ; but more properly com- 
bines the oblong-bar-frame, as originally used by Munn, with Be- 
van’s bee-box, and other additional improvements, making it more 
simple and practical than either of its predecessors.” —J. S. Harbi- 
son in Bee Culture, p. 149. 
Mr. Langstroth says,* “Ihave before me asmall pamphlet, pub- 
lished in London in 1851, describing the construction of the Bar-and- 
Frame Hive of W. A. Munn, Esq. The object of this invention is 
to elevate the frames one at a time into a case with glass sides, 39 
that they may be examined without risk of annoyance from the 
bees. 
“ Great ingenuity is exhibited by the inventor of this very costly (?) 
and very complicated hive, who seems to imagine that smoke must 
be injurious, both to the bees and their brood.” 
Great as Mr. Munn’s “ ingenuity” may have been, it falls some- 
what short of that exhibited by Mr. L., in the above quotation, by 
which it would appear that the hive of Mr. Munn was an observatioit 
hive only, whereas the facts are, that it was intended to combine all 
the desired advantages of a practical bee-hive for every day use. 
Mr..Munn says, p. 23, in speaking of other hives, “ But how- 
ever, I should not be doing justice to Mr. R. Golding, if I did 
not. particularly mention his improved Grecian hive, by the use of 
which combs may be removed from the interior of the hive and in- 
spected at pleasure.” Again, same page, “ My object has been to 
point out briefly to those anxious for the better, more extended, 
*Honey Bee, 3d edition, 1860, page 209.—-IVote. 
