. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communicationt to the Editor to be addretted ' Stranqeways Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 381. Vol. XVII.] OCTOBER 10, 1889. [Published Weekly.] (&tfxtaxwlf Ifrriias, t£r. EMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. No. 13.—ALFRED NEIGHBOUR. We have much pleasure this week in presenting a portrait and biographical sketch of Mr. Alfred Neighbour, who without dispute, may be pronounced to be the oldest established purveyor of bee-keeping appliances in the British Isles. Being in the apiarian business long prior to the publication of
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communicationt to the Editor to be addretted ' Stranqeways Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 381. Vol. XVII.] OCTOBER 10, 1889. [Published Weekly.] (&tfxtaxwlf Ifrriias, t£r. EMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. No. 13.—ALFRED NEIGHBOUR. We have much pleasure this week in presenting a portrait and biographical sketch of Mr. Alfred Neighbour, who without dispute, may be pronounced to be the oldest established purveyor of bee-keeping appliances in the British Isles. Being in the apiarian business long prior to the publication of the British Bee Journal, Mr. Neighbour is quite a reper- tory of facts respecting the founders of what may be termed ' modern bee - keep- ing.' Mr. Neighbour was born in High Holborn, London, on the 24th of October, 1820. He is the son of the late Mr. George Neighbour, and a member of the firm of George Neighbour & Sons. His father established the business in Holborn about the year 1814; and in 1824 Mr. Thomas Nutt, of Spald- ing, Lincolnshire, inventor of the Collateral and other hives, offered him the agency for the sale of these appli- ances. In 1827 Mr. Nutt published the first edition of his work entitled Hu- manity to Bees, which ran into a seventh edition. Mr. Nutt was in the habit of periodically vi|siting his patrons who resided in the neighbourhood of London ; and Mr. Alfred Neighbour'frequently accompanied him in these excursions, and witnessed his fearless manner in manipulating with bees, and thus in very early life ac- quired a taste for apiarian pursuits. For many years a public apiary was kept up by Mr. Neighbour in the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park. The hives were originally Nutt's; at a later period the Unicomb and other transparent hives were substituted, which proved to be more attractive to visitors. These excited considerable interest, and were by no means the least valued objects in the Gardens. The Royal princes and princesses were accustomed
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