. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stkangeways' Pbintino Office, Tower Street, St. Martin's Lane, [No. 172. Vol. XIII.] JUNE 15, 1885 [Published Fortnightly.] (gbrtorial, Jotters, #r. THE LATE REV. H. R. PEEL. It is with the saddest feelings that we take up the peu to chronicle the decease of the Rev. Herbert Richard Peel, the editor and proprietor of this Journal, which occurred on Tuesday, June 4th. His presence has for many years occupied so large a portion of the apicultural world, and it is at so recent a date that he
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stkangeways' Pbintino Office, Tower Street, St. Martin's Lane, [No. 172. Vol. XIII.] JUNE 15, 1885 [Published Fortnightly.] (gbrtorial, Jotters, #r. THE LATE REV. H. R. PEEL. It is with the saddest feelings that we take up the peu to chronicle the decease of the Rev. Herbert Richard Peel, the editor and proprietor of this Journal, which occurred on Tuesday, June 4th. His presence has for many years occupied so large a portion of the apicultural world, and it is at so recent a date that he was present in our midst, that there is no slight difficulty in realizing the fact that he has passed away from us. His encouraging and earnest words still ring in our ears; his pleasant smile, his affable and courteous demeanour, are still visible to us ; his gentle, yet firm influ- ence is still felt; the effects of his active mind, and the results of his skilful powers of organisation, are all ai'ound us. Si monumentum quoeris circumspice. And now the energising power has passed from our sight; he has gone in the very sunshine of his day, in a manner that paralyses our thought, that eludes our mental grasp, and completely baffles our com- prehension. It would be vain,—it would be im- pertinent, to peer into the last scene of his eventful life ; rather would we desire to cast a veil over it, and leave it in the awful mystery and dark gloom by which it is enveloped. But his spirit is still with us; the work that he so bravely and self-deny- ingly began, and which he perhaps too laboriously carried on, remains to be accomplished. On whom will his mautle fall 1. Who will ad- vance to the front and occupy the void now created I Who will continue to raise the superstructure on the foundation that has been so wisely and elabo- rately laid by Mr. Peel ? We must all hope and work on ; the future of bee-keeping lies before us. The Rev. H. R. Peel was born on February 8 th, 1831, at
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