. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. J ^_JiiA^k^L^^^' HfFISM. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Strasoeways' Printing Office, Tower Street, St. Martin's Lane, [No. 215. Vol. XIV.] AUGUST 5, 1886. [Published Weekly.] BRITISH BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION: SOUTH KENSINGTON SHOW. On Friday, July 30, was opened the tenth great metropolitan Exhibition of Honey, Hives, and Bee-furni- ture of the British Bee-keepers' Association. By the special permission of I lis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Executive President of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, it was held
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. J ^_JiiA^k^L^^^' HfFISM. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Strasoeways' Printing Office, Tower Street, St. Martin's Lane, [No. 215. Vol. XIV.] AUGUST 5, 1886. [Published Weekly.] BRITISH BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION: SOUTH KENSINGTON SHOW. On Friday, July 30, was opened the tenth great metropolitan Exhibition of Honey, Hives, and Bee-furni- ture of the British Bee-keepers' Association. By the special permission of I lis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Executive President of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, it was held in the large and commodious Conservatory adjoining the Albert Hall, South Kensing- ton. The British Bee-keepers' Association are duly sensible of the great advantages gained by the permission thus accorded them to bold their show in such an eligible position. The Exhibition has also been well timed ; seeing one of the days in which it was held was the Bank Holiday, thousands have thus had the op- portunity of witnessing the products of the honey bee in a most striking and interesting manner. The fact of the Exhibition being held in a place devoted to the products of the empire of India and the British possessions throughout the world has created not a little surprise, and numerous have been the in- quiries why there has been such a marked departure from the original purpose of the Great Exhibition. It is, therefore, desirable to give such a history of the origin of the British Bee-keepers' Show as maj' account for the position they have acquired. At the annual meeting of the British Bee-keepers' Association, on February 1", a motion was proposed by the Rev. E. Clay to the effect that it was desirable that a thoroughly representative exhibition of English lee- keeping should be held during the present year, and that the Committee be empowered to arrange such an exhibi- tion, provided a sufficient guarantee fund be raised for the purpose. Mr. Clay strongly advocated the hold
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