. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 488 THE BKITISH BEE JOUENAL. ^Sept. 7, 1922. s John Geddy, of Hilltown, Falkland. By H. J. 0. Walker. (Continued from page 402.) ^HE RUCHE ECOSSAISE (Scottish Hive) and its relation to that of Jacques de Gelieu and to Gedde's " Transparent ; Jacques de Gelieu came of a Swiss family of bee-keeping pastors, and died in the same Edinburgh. Pastor Jacques used a tiered wooden hive of his own devising, and in his day, and even as far on as 1862, as may be learned from a letter of Pastor Bernard de Gelieu to the Par
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 488 THE BKITISH BEE JOUENAL. ^Sept. 7, 1922. s John Geddy, of Hilltown, Falkland. By H. J. 0. Walker. (Continued from page 402.) ^HE RUCHE ECOSSAISE (Scottish Hive) and its relation to that of Jacques de Gelieu and to Gedde's " Transparent ; Jacques de Gelieu came of a Swiss family of bee-keeping pastors, and died in the same Edinburgh. Pastor Jacques used a tiered wooden hive of his own devising, and in his day, and even as far on as 1862, as may be learned from a letter of Pastor Bernard de Gelieu to the Paris " Bee Journal VApicut- tear " in that year, p. 42, the family believed him to be the original inventor of the tiering system. They were greatly mis- taken. In a practical little work, " Traite des Mouches a miel," anonymous, Paris, 1690, tiered hives, both of wood and straw, are figured and described as being in common use in the French districts Le Poitu and Le. faith at Verrieres-Suisse in 1762, leaving a son Jonas. In 1816, Pastor Jonas, then full of years, published " Le Conservateur des Abeilles," an English translation of which, by Miss Graham Stirling, of Duntrune, appeared anonymously thirteen yeare later in Limousin. That they were on trial in Eng- land full five-and-thirty years earlier still we have already seen. Of Jacques' contemporaries scientifically interested in bees, the most highly esteemed was De Reaumur, and to him in the year. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London
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