British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . ajid in 1852 proceededto Pembroke College, Oxford, where he tookhonours in Classics, Law, and 1856 he was elected to the second Mas-tership of his old school under the J. Macleane. In 1858 he took his de-gree of , and in 1859 became curate(in addition to his Mastership) at the Octa-gon Chapel, Bath, to Dr. Magee, the late become interested in bee-keeping in conse-quence of the able articles that appearedfrom time to time in Journal of Horticul-ture written by the late Mr. the Crystal Palace Show he was sostruck
British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . ajid in 1852 proceededto Pembroke College, Oxford, where he tookhonours in Classics, Law, and 1856 he was elected to the second Mas-tership of his old school under the J. Macleane. In 1858 he took his de-gree of , and in 1859 became curate(in addition to his Mastership) at the Octa-gon Chapel, Bath, to Dr. Magee, the late become interested in bee-keeping in conse-quence of the able articles that appearedfrom time to time in Journal of Horticul-ture written by the late Mr. the Crystal Palace Show he was sostruck with the splendid Stev/arton sixp-t^nsshown on that occasion by his friend, tih©present Chairman of the , that onhis advice he detennined to keep bees. joined the Association at thesame time as his friend and neighbour,the late Rev. H. R. Peel, and was for manyyears an active member of the ijiterested himself in the examinationof experts, and was one of the examiningboard, and devoted much time and care to. THE LATE REV. E. BARTRUM, , Bishop of Peterborough. In 1861 Dr. Bar-trum wais offered the head-mastership ofHertford Grammer School by the RightHon. W. Cowper on behalf of T^ady Pal-merston, who lield tl:e patronage. In 1864he removed to Berkhamsted on the nomina-tion of Lord Palmerston, then PrimeMinister acting for the Crown, and tookthe of the school his able management it rapidly im-proved, and from fifty the numbers in-creased till at his resignation Dr. Bartrumleft it a large pviblic echool with over 180boys. Ilis connection with the beganin 1879, although before that time he had the management of the finances of the As-sociation. He worked with the movablecomb-hive and the Stewarton, and was agreat jjartisan of this system for someyears. His little book, The Stewarton: theHire of the Busy Man, attracted consider-able attention to that famous Scotch hive,but for many years Dr. Bartrum hadadmitte
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