. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 215 ,Wilsnack, Prussia. Samuel Simmins, Newhaven, England. Cav. Andrea de Rauschenfels, Collec- chio (near Parma), Italy. Harald Hovind, Tredestrand, Norway. George de Layens, Louye (Eure), France. Hjalmar Stalhammar, Gothenburg, Sweden. Karl Gatter, Vienna, Austria. A. de Zoubareflf, St. Petersburg, Eus- sia. G. P. Kandratieff, Russia. Charles Dadant, Hamilton, Ills. *Alfred Neighbour, London, England. *Edward Cori, Bruex, Bohemia. Prof. H. W. Wiley, Washington, D. C. Chicago, Ills., was selected as the place fo


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 215 ,Wilsnack, Prussia. Samuel Simmins, Newhaven, England. Cav. Andrea de Rauschenfels, Collec- chio (near Parma), Italy. Harald Hovind, Tredestrand, Norway. George de Layens, Louye (Eure), France. Hjalmar Stalhammar, Gothenburg, Sweden. Karl Gatter, Vienna, Austria. A. de Zoubareflf, St. Petersburg, Eus- sia. G. P. Kandratieff, Russia. Charles Dadant, Hamilton, Ills. *Alfred Neighbour, London, England. *Edward Cori, Bruex, Bohemia. Prof. H. W. Wiley, Washington, D. C. Chicago, Ills., was selected as the place for holding the next meeting ; the time of meeting to be left to the Execu- tive Board, but the society recommended the forepart of October as a desir time to meet. The convention then adjourned. W. Z. Hutchinson, S. Review of a Report of Foul Brood Experiments. Written Jor the American Bee Journal BY J. H. LARRABEE. The Canadian Bee Journal of Jan. 1st contains a report by J. J. Macken- zie, the bacteriologist of the Provincial Board of Health, upon the subject of Foul Brood. The experiments were in- stituted at the suggestion of an Experi- mental Union, organized in Ontario, Canada, for advancing such work. This report contains some new ideas, and new light is added to many old ones. This is one of the many lines of work where a trained scientist is of more value as an investigator than any bee- keeper could be. The scientist first isolated and ex- amined microscopically the bacillus of foul brood, and then having determined its character, he reviewed the methods of cure, and tested the values of anti- septics and heat as destroying agents. He says : " I certainly would not be prepared to spot foul brood in an apiary, though I certainly think I can under the microscope;" thus directly contradict- ing Mr. C. J. Robinson, who, on page 56 of the American Bee Journal for Jan. 12th, states that " a glass cannot aid the eye to distinguish foul brood virus from other ge


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