. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. The Bee-keeper's Calendar. [10721] Your contributor of " The Bee- keeper's Calendar" has not as yet, I regret to note, included therein any quotation from the works of Jean Rucellai, 1524, and Dr. John Evans, 1806-13, two notable writers in verse on the honey bee. The classical poems of these authors, so different in many features, are both of such great interest and beauty as would entitle them to recognition Evans is, of course, well known and freely quoted in various worts on the honey bee, while Rucellai's poem, perhaps bette
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. The Bee-keeper's Calendar. [10721] Your contributor of " The Bee- keeper's Calendar" has not as yet, I regret to note, included therein any quotation from the works of Jean Rucellai, 1524, and Dr. John Evans, 1806-13, two notable writers in verse on the honey bee. The classical poems of these authors, so different in many features, are both of such great interest and beauty as would entitle them to recognition Evans is, of course, well known and freely quoted in various worts on the honey bee, while Rucellai's poem, perhaps better known to those specially interested in bee biblio- graphy, is, I think, of at least equal interest to that of "Virgil. Noel Vaslet Remembrance Day. [10722] I was much touched by the im- pressive article by the Rev. E. F. Hemming in your issue for November 16 on " Armis- tice ; It came so opportunelv with my appeal for Sergt W. Naish, of Sea Mills, Bristol, whose service in France is responsible for his present unemployment. I did not mention before thnt he was an ex-Service man because so many of us are, and it implies a comparison with those who had to " carry on " at home under condi- tions which I, for one, would have found more irksome than those I experienced for nearly five years abroad, Gallipoli excepted. The best way, perhaps, to reverence the memory of those, dead we left behind, many of whom we learned to love, and whose silent forms, reverently covered by a blanket, we had to pass and re-pass on our round of duties until their removal by the ambulance, is to help those who returned. I have to acknowledge, to date, three kindly offers from Mr. Rose (Seeds and Bees, Ltd.), of Liverpool, Miss Greenwood, Clitheroe, Lanes, and Mr. John Lee, h veteran bee-keeper, of Dunston, Biggleswade. The smallest sums will be welcome. My sergeant friend is going to be esta- blished in bee-keeping this next spring. His little apiary wih be Hk> first on
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