. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Feb. 2, 1011.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 41 Editorial, Notices, &c. PROMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. MR. r. W. L. SLADEX, Mr. Frederick William Lambart Sladen, of Ripple Court Apiary, near Dover, whose portrait we have pleasure in presenting to our readers, and who is known as the originator and breeder of the "British Golden" bees, was born on May 30, 1876, at Shooter's Hill, Blackheath. He is the son of J. Sladen, , and his mother, Lady Sarah Sladen, is a daughter of the eighth Earl of Cavan. He was privatel
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Feb. 2, 1011.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 41 Editorial, Notices, &c. PROMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. MR. r. W. L. SLADEX, Mr. Frederick William Lambart Sladen, of Ripple Court Apiary, near Dover, whose portrait we have pleasure in presenting to our readers, and who is known as the originator and breeder of the "British Golden" bees, was born on May 30, 1876, at Shooter's Hill, Blackheath. He is the son of J. Sladen, , and his mother, Lady Sarah Sladen, is a daughter of the eighth Earl of Cavan. He was privately educated, commenced bee-keep- acquaintance with the subject far beyond his years, which gave promise that if he took up bee-keeping he would some day rise to prominence. He did become in- terested in the science, and visited India in the winter of 1896-7 to investigate the honey-bees of that country. He found Apis dorsata and A. floica useless for domestication, but brought home alive a queen of the Himalaya honey-bee. On his return from India he decided to take up bee-keeping as his calling, and went in for honey-production on a large scale. Finding English-Italian hybrids to be larger honey-producers than native blacks, he decided to breed them for sale. Close observation, with a study of the laws of heredity and the work of breeders. MR. r. W. L. SLADEN, ing at the age of thirteen, and soon after he began to study wild bees, especially the humble-bee. Our attention was first drawn to Mr. Sladen in 1892, when we saw in the daily papers a notice of a small book of forty pages written by a " young naturalist," and entitled " The ; We sent for the book, and were much gratified by its perusal, as it was perfectly unique, inasmuch as it was altogether the production of the author, not only the writing and illustrations, but the printing (by stylography) and the binding. Although Mr. Sladen was only sixteen years of age, in this work, written f
Size: 1580px × 1582px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury, bookdecade1870, bookpublisherlondon, booksubjectbees
