. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 516 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [December 19, 1889. At that time he had a prejudice against moveable tops, but driving bees had shown him that the inversion of the skeps did not brine; -with it all the bad results he had imagined. At the Exhibition in 1871 he showed his hive, which he called Contadina; but as the German type of hive was the favourite one, with top and floor- boards fixed, this hive was not noticed. It was at this meeting that the first Congress of Bee-keepers was held, and Dr. Bianchetti was elected president. The good result
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 516 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [December 19, 1889. At that time he had a prejudice against moveable tops, but driving bees had shown him that the inversion of the skeps did not brine; -with it all the bad results he had imagined. At the Exhibition in 1871 he showed his hive, which he called Contadina; but as the German type of hive was the favourite one, with top and floor- boards fixed, this hive was not noticed. It was at this meeting that the first Congress of Bee-keepers was held, and Dr. Bianchetti was elected president. The good results obtained with this hive induced him to have many constructed, and so he had an oppor- tunity of comparing the different results. Thus he was able to recognise the superiority of this hive over the others, generally admitted by those who use them. To cheapen the hive, Dr. Bianchetti adopted an idea of served the useful purpose of still further popularising bee-keeping. In 1879 Dr. Bianchetti received another medal and a special diploma for services rendered to bee- keeping. In 1874, having declined to serve as chairman, he was unanimously elected honorary president of'the Society. In 1886 we visited Dr. Bianchetti at his residence, with our friend M. Bertrand, and witnessed the energy and enthusiasm of this veteran bee-keeper. We presented a view of one of his apiaries, which we described on page 579 of the Owing to the scarcity of bee pasturage, Dr. Bianchetti is loth to increase his apiary, but his son, who knows that to this occupation is due Dr. Bianchetti's present vigorous health, had persuaded him to increase the number of hives kept, so that at. Colonel Crema, which was to construct it of the cases in which the tins of petroltum came from America ; and recognising the principle of giving honour to whom it was due, this hive was called ' Petroliere Bianchetti- Crema.' With similar materials he also made a Langstroth hive and other bee-keeping- appliances, which h
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