. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stranoeways Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 370. Vol. XVII.] JULY 25, 1889. [ Weekly.] EMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. No. 8.—BARON YON BERLEPSCH. The memory of the Baron von Berlepsch will always be held in high honour as one of the most practical bee- masters and as one of the greatest writers on apiculture of the present age. We, therefore, have much pleasure in giving him a foremost place amongst our ' Emi- nent Bee-keepers.' August, Baron von Ber- lepsch,was born


. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stranoeways Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 370. Vol. XVII.] JULY 25, 1889. [ Weekly.] EMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. No. 8.—BARON YON BERLEPSCH. The memory of the Baron von Berlepsch will always be held in high honour as one of the most practical bee- masters and as one of the greatest writers on apiculture of the present age. We, therefore, have much pleasure in giving him a foremost place amongst our ' Emi- nent Bee-keepers.' August, Baron von Ber- lepsch,was born at 8eebach, near Langelsalza, in Thu- ringen, on the 23th of June, [815. Even in the days of his childhood he manifested a remarkable partiality for bees. His greatest pleasure was when he could elude the vigi- lance of his governess to mn to the apiary of a neighbour, Gottlieb Iiich- ser. When she requested him to return to his father's house he would place himself amidst the bees and playfully ask her to come and fetch him. On his attaining the age of seven his father pre- sented him with a hive of bees. When he was ten he was the owner of four hives, which he took with him to Heroldeshausen to the house of the due Venck, who had the charge of his education. Since which time he has always owned bees; and while studying law with Prof. Boring (who was an en- thusiast on bees) young Berlepsch was permitted to bring with him a few hives, which were placed in the apiary of his professor. When a pupil at the Gymnasium (High School) he resolved to study ancient classic philology, but his father objected and obliged him to study jurisprudence. He became reconciled to the study of law at the Universities, which he attended insofar as to study corpus juris indus- triously and with philosophical exactness. But his fa- ther fuither insisted on his practising law, with the hope of seeing his son become some day Minister of Justice. The dull routine of work, however, disgusted the young


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