Summary Information
Charles Dadant Papers
1861-1937
- Dadant, Charles, 1817-1902
Mss 590
1.8 c.f. (5 archives boxes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Charles Dadant, a Frenchman who immigrated to Hamilton, Illinois, in 1863 and established the bee supply firm Charles Dadant & Son in 1874. Dadant, in hundreds of articles in European and American bee journals, advocated the large movable-frame hive. It is by his name that this kind of hive, preferred by European beekeepers, is known on the continent. He also solved the problem of the safe transatlantic shipment of Italian golden bees. The papers consist of correspondence between Dadant and Edouard Bertrand, editor of Revue Internationale d'Apiculture; letters by Dadant's son Camille Pierre to Bertrand; letters to Charles Dadant & Son from many European and American bee men, among them L. L. Langstroth; and some letters to Frank C. Pellett, H. J. O. Walker, and H. F. Wilson. The collection provides information on beekeeping experiments, controversies, practices, and developments in the United States and Europe, and comments on political philosophy and world events.
English, French, Italian, German
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Biography/History
(LOUIS) CHARLES DADANT was born in the village of Vaux-sous-Aubigny, Haute-Marne, France, on May 22, 1817. During his childhood and youth he often was in fields and woods, showed interest in the workings of nature, and kept bees as a pastime. He received his formal education at the grammar and secondary school in Langres with the intention of becoming a physician like his father. But at the age of eighteen, after completing school, he went into the wholesale dry goods trade, first as a clerk and later, from circa 1847, as a partner in a firm located in Langres. After the overthrow of the July Monarchy, however, there was a general loss of confidence in business, which resulted in the decline and failure of the firm. Dadant then was accepted as a partner in the tannery of his father-in-law, after whose death he assumed full ownership. But trade was diverted from Langres by the advent of a railroad in 1856, which skirted it for the cities of the valley; and the tannery failed. Dadant's experiences in commerce and trade supported ideas that he entertained earlier from his observation of nature, reading, and conversations with friends of his school days: the beliefs that capitalism should be replaced by utopian socialism (he was attracted especially to the ideas of Charles Fourier and André Godin), monarchy by republics, and religion by free thought. His anticlericalism, however, did not prevent him from marrying a deeply religious woman, (Marie) Gabrielle Parisot, on June 1, 1847, or later from having amicable, fruitful relationships with devout beekeepers, such as the abbé Sagot and the Reverend L. L. Langstroth.
In April 1863, aged forty-six and impoverished, Charles Dadant immigrated to the United States; his wife and children followed in October. They settled on a small brush farm two miles north of Hamilton, Illinois. Dadant intended to make a living by growing grapes, the principal crop of his native Burgundy and Champagne, but in Illinois its cultivation proved insufficient. The following year he obtained two colonies of common black bees in box hives, the modest beginning of what soon would become an eminent career. Arriving with no knowledge of English, he taught himself to read it well, but he never was able to speak it fluently.
Dadant tried many types of hives in order to discover the best form and size of hive for the maintenance of colony strength and honey production. He became convinced of the superiority of the Langstroth hive and circa 1868 concluded that a movable-frame hive deeper than Langstroth's or Quinby's would be best. (In Philadelphia in 1851 L. L. Langstroth discovered the bee space, a space of not more than three-eighths of an inch, which bees leave open for their passage to and from the hive; and invented the modern movable-frame hive, whose distinguishing features are a movable bottom, and frames with spaces between them and the sides of the hive.) During the next thirty years Dadant contributed hundreds of articles to European and American bee journals, in particular, the American Bee Journal, Apiculteur (Paris), Journal des Fermes et des Châteaux (Paris), Culture (Paris), Apicoltore (Milan), and Revue Internationale d'Apiculture (Nyon). To American bee men, who for the most part were receptive to the movable-frame hive, he advocated from 1870 on, the use of large hives; from 1885 on he disagreed with the contraction principle and small hive advocated by the Michigan beekeepers, James Heddon and W. Z. Hutchinson. To European bee men, who still used fixed comb hives, he urged from 1869 on, the use of movable-frame hives; he was an important partisan of the mobilistes , as the movable-hive men were known, against the fixistes , as the common hive men were known. The first and principal advocate of the movable-frame hive to Frenchmen, he was largely responsible for its adoption by the French and other Europeans; it is by his name that this kind of hive is known on the continent. (In the twentieth century Europeans have preferred the deeper dimensions of the Dadant hive; Americans, the shallower dimensions of the Langstroth hive.) In 1874 Dadant's Petit Cours d'Apiculture was published in France.
From 1881 until 1888 Dadant and his son Camille Pierre corresponded with L. L. Langstroth concerning a fourth edition of Langstroth's The Hive and the Honey Bee, the classic work on the physiology and habits of the honey bee and the principles of its culture. Langstroth, at times incapacitated by melancholia, entrusted the revision of the book to the Dadants in 1885, which they published in 1888. The French translation by Charles Dadant was published in 1891.
Dadant made several other important contributions to the honey industry. After some disappointing attempts and a trip to Italy in 1872, he solved the problem of the safe transatlantic shipment of Italian golden bees (1874). His suppliers were Dr. Blumhof of Biasca, Giuseppi Fiorini of Monselice, and Salvato S. Sartori of Milan. The Italian Goldens were considered more industrious and better honey gatherers than the common black bee of the United States, which they replaced. In the early 1870's Dadant became convinced of the value of sweet clover as a honey plant, and grew it; he later believed that much of the sweet clover growing on both sides of the Mississippi River originated from his stock. Dadant, along with L. L. Langstroth and Moses Quinby, contributed to the early development of the honey extractor, which has been responsible for the replacement of comb honey by liquid honey commercially. He and his son published the pamphlet Extracted Honey in 1881. In 1878 they began to manufacture comb foundations, which was a new field and in a crude state of development. In the same year Dadant also began to appeal for laws prohibiting the adulteration of honey and the sale of glass jars of glucose under the name of honey.
During his life Dadant was made an honorary member of more than twenty beekeepers' associations throughout the world. He died in Hamilton, Illinois, on July 16, 1902; his death was lamented in every bee journal on both continents.
CAMILLE PIERRE DADANT, the only son of Charles and Gabrielle, was born in Langres, France, on April 6, 1851. He was twelve years old when he immigrated to the United States; he then took care of household purchases and the family's finances, since his father was not fluent in English. Although he was introduced to beekeeping at the age of fourteen, he was timid with bees and did not become an apiarist until the age of eighteen. By 1874 he was actively engaged in the family business in partnership with his father. After his father's death in 1902 he headed the firm, with the participation of his sons, until his retirement in 1925.
Camille Pierre Dadant assisted his father in several revisions of The Hive and the Honey Bee (1888, 1893, 1896, 1899). The four succeeding editions (1907, 1922, 1923, 1927) were his work. He authored First Lessons in Bee-Keeping (1915), The Dadant System of Bee-Keeping (1920), Bee Primer (1921), and Apicultura, published by the republic of Mexico; they have been translated into several European languages. In 1926 Dadant translated from the French New Observations on Bees by François Huber. Fond of literature and reading, he had a library of several thousand works on beekeeping. He was a member of the committee whose task it was to raise funds and determine the location (the University of Wisconsin in Madison) of the C.C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library, circa 1922.
Dadant was president of the National Beekeepers' Association in the years 1906-1907, and president of the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association in the years 1909-1911. He was a member of the Mississippi River Water Power Company, which fostered the damming of the river at Hamilton, completed in 1912. In 1912 Dadant & Sons acquired the American Bee Journal; Dadant was its editor and publisher from that year until 1925. His sons, Henry Camille and Maurice George, later became active contributors to the journal. In 1920 Dadant was decorated with the Order of the Crown by King Albert of Belgium for his services in aiding the rehabilitation of beekeeping in the devastated regions of France and Belgium following the First World War. He married Marie Marinelli on November 1, 1875; they had seven children. Camille Pierre Dadant died in Hamilton, Illinois, on February 22, 1938.
THE FIRM was called Charles Dadant & Son from 1874 until 1902; since then its name has been Dadant & Sons. In the mid-1880's the firm was offering bees, honey, beeswax, comb foundations, and apiarian supplies; it eventually also would supply bleached wax for cosmetics, molded wax for industrial purposes, and church candles. In 1938 Dadant & Sons operated apiaries in several sections of Hancock County, Illinois (including the original apiary at the Dadant farm); Clark County, Missouri; western Iowa; and northern Minnesota. In addition to publishing the American Bee Journal, the firm publishes bee books, for example, The Hive and the Honey Bee (1946, 1963, 1975). In 1975 Dadant & Sons (Hamilton, Illinois) and the A.I. Root Co. (Medina, Ohio) were the two largest bee supply companies in the United States.
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of correspondence dealing with the experiments, controversies, and activities of bee men in the United States and Europe especially during the decades of the 1870's and 1880's, but continuing into the early twentieth century. The papers are divided into seven series, six of which are organized around individuals: Charles Dadant, Camille Pierre Dadant, Edouard Bertrand, Frank C. Pellett, H. J. O. Walker, and H. F. Wilson. The remaining series is Charles Dadant & Son. Since many bee men, and certainly the principals of this collection, were singularly, even passionately devoted to the progress of beekeeping, no neat separation in their lives or papers can be made between business affairs and intellectual pursuits, earning a living and advancing beekeeping, self-interest and altruism; consequently, the series based on individuals contain information of a business character as well as of their intellectual concerns, and the series Charles Dadant & Son includes material on the bee literature and debates of the time. The first three series, Charles Dadant, Camille Pierre Dadant, and Charles Dadant & Son, make up the bulk of the collection. The series Charles Dadant, Camille Pierre Dadant, and Edouard Bertrand are in French; the series Charles Dadant & Son is mostly in English, with some French and Italian; the other series are in English, except for a few items indicated in the contents list below.
The CHARLES DADANT series consists of correspondence between Charles Dadant and Edouard Bertrand, editor of Revue Internationale d'Apiculture (Nyon, Switzerland). It is divided into two groups: Letters to Edouard Bertrand, 1879-1901, and Letters from Edouard Bertrand, 1879-1895. Charles Dadant wrote often and well. His letters are detailed, technical, and sometimes lengthy studies of all aspects of beekeeping, in which contemporary bee literature and developments are treated and the ideas and contributions of European and American bee men assessed. Charles Dadant discussed with Bertrand articles he was submitting for publication, the drafts of some of which are included, for example, “Faut-il faire produire de la cire aux abeilles?” of December 29, 1892. He wrote of his own experiments, the experiments of others, and the progress of the family business, Charles Dadant & Son. Here are reflected with considerable competence and detail the thought, practices, and history of American and European beekeeping during the last decades of the nineteenth century. The letters also reveal the philosophy of Dadant, who described himself as an ardent Fourierist. He spoke passionately and at length on socialism and capitalism, the Familistère at Guise (Aisne) of André Godin, and the railroad strikes in the United States; and on politics, religion, and his experiences in French trade and commerce. (See his letters in the years 1885-1888, especially the thirty-page letter of January 20, 1886). Several letters included in the subseries are not from Dadant to Edouard Bertrand; they are: Edouard Bertrand to A. I. Root, June 25 1883; A. I. Root to Edouard Bertrand, July 10, 1883; Frank Benton to Charles Dadant, January 31, 1884, and the enclosed article, “A Wasp's Nest in France”; and three letters written to Edouard Bertrand in the spring of 1891, which refer to the new edition of The Hive and the Honey Bee. The second subseries consists of Bertrand's replies to Dadant, and deal with his editorial responsibilities and with beekeeping developments. But he also was engaged by Dadant to discuss religion and the social question. The last folder of the series is titled Miscellany and consists of two letters, four biographical sketches, two newspaper advertisements of beehive patents, and three photographs, itemized in the contents list below. The Charles Dadant series involves many individuals who also appear in the Charles Dadant & Son series.
The CAMILLE PIERRE DADANT series consists of letters by C. P. Dadant to Edouard and Madame Bertrand during the years 1900-1916, involving the preparation of a new edition (1907) of The Hive and the Honey Bee and translations into French and Italian, editorial responsibilities at the American Bee Journal, and articles by Dadant and other writers. Dadant referred to contemporary bee literature and practices here and abroad; bee conventions he attended; the production of honey, beeswax, wine, and fruit which his sons managed; and the damming of the Mississippi River at Hamilton. He described American customs, regional characteristics, and geography as well as the health and progress of his family. In the summers of 1900 and 1913 Dadant and his wife Marie traveled to Europe and visited the Bertrands. Some of his impressions of individual European bee men and of European beekeeping practices were given during the second trip. In the years 1914-1916 Dadant commented on the world war. The series also includes several letters arranged alphabetically by correspondent. The four letters written in 1885-1886 are from relatives and friends of the family; the two letters written in the 1920's refer to the C.C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library; a letter dated May 31, 1934 is from a Finnish bee man; and four letters written in the years 1933-1935 are from Victor Dumas, editor of L'Abeille et le Miel (Castanet-Tolosan, Haute-Garonne), with Dadant's replies.
The CHARLES DADANT & SON series falls within the period when the firm was known by its original name. The series consists of incoming letters arranged alphabetically by correspondent, mainly from American beekeepers requesting bee products and supplies. Their orders reflect the needs, trends, and growth of the bee industry in the 1870's and 1880's and the contribution of Charles Dadant & Son to that development. Several of the correspondents were editors of bee magazines, many of which were short-lived. Their letters, often addressed to Charles Dadant rather than the firm, refer to articles by him and other writers and to contemporary bee literature, controversies, and developments. Editors appearing in the series are: D. L. Adair, Annals of Bee Culture (Hawesville, Kentucky); Henry Alley, American Apiculturist (Wenham, Massachusetts); W. F. Clarke, American Bee Journal (Chicago, Illinois, 1873-1874); E. Drory, Rucher du Sud-Ouest (Bordeaux); A. Fragnière, Messager (Fribourg); H. Hamet, Apiculteur (Paris); W. Z. Hutchinson, Bee-Keepers' Review (Flint, Michigan); A. J. King, Bee-Keepers' Magazine (New York, New York); Homer A. King, Bee-Keepers' Journal & National Apiculturist (New York, New York); N. C. Mitchell, Illustrated Bee Journal (Indianapolis, Indiana); A. F. Moon, North American Bee Journal (Indianapolis, Indiana) and Moon's Bee World (Rome, Georgia); Thomas G. Newman, American Bee Journal (Chicago, Illinois, 1875-1892); A. I. Root, Gleanings in Bee Culture (Medina, Ohio); Ellen S. Tupper, National Bee Journal (Des Moines, Iowa); and Samuel Wagner, American Bee Journal (Washington, D.C., 1851, 1866-1872). The series also provides information on the traffic in Italian bees, especially in the letters from Giuseppi Fiorini of Monselice, 1873-1883; and on the preparations for the fourth edition (1888) of The Hive and the Honey Bee in the letters from L. L. Langstroth of Dayton, Ohio. Several letters not addressed to the firm or Dadant are included in the series: letters by Charles Dadant to Anna (Langstroth) Cowan, August 1, 1887, H. C. Cowan, August 11, 1887, and L. L. Langstroth, and October 7 and 24, 1887 and November 3, 1887; letters concerning the preparation of engravings for The Hive and the Honey Bee, Charles Dadant & Son perhaps to L. L. Langstroth, July 31, 1887, and to C. L. A. Probst, December 22, 1887, and Georges de Layens probably to Charles Dadant, January 7, 1886; and letters concerning Italian bees, R. Odinet to Giuseppi Fiorini, August 20 and September 17, 1875, and Charles Dadant to Ellen S. Tupper, October 23, 1870.
The series EDOUARD BERTRAND, FRANK C. PELLETT, H. J. O. WALTER, and H. F. WILSON each consist of one folder of incoming letters arranged alphabetically by correspondent and relating to the professional bee activities and interests of the principals. Papers other than incoming letters are itemized in the contents list. In the first series mention is made of the planned visit of Camille Pierre Dadant to the Société d'Apiculture of Lyons in the summer of 1913; in the second, to lectures to be presented before beekeepers' societies; in the third, to bee literature and lore; and in the fourth, to the National Beekeepers' Association, the American Bee Journal, and the C.C. Miller Collection. Edouard Bertrand (1832-1917) was publisher and editor of Revue Internationale d'Apiculture (Nyon, Switzerland) in the years 1879-1903, author of La Conduite du Rucher (1882-1883), and an advocate of the movable-frame hive. Frank C. Pellett (1879-1951) was a naturalist, state inspector of apiaries (Iowa) in the years 1912-1917, managing editor from 1918 and field editor from 1925 of the American Bee Journal (Hamilton, Illinois), and author of many books on nature, among which are American Honey Plants (1920) and History of American Beekeeping (1938). Lieutenant Colonel H. J. O. Walker of Budleigh Satterton, Devon, was a member of the British Beekeepers' Association and collector of bee literature, old and new, much of which was added to the C.C. Miller Collection in the agricultural library of the University of Wisconsin in 1929. Harley Frost Wilson (1883-1959) was a professor in the Department of Economic Entomology of the University of Wisconsin, custodian of the C.C. Miller Collection from its inception in 1922 until his retirement in 1948, president of the American Honey Producers' League in the years 1923-1927, secretary of the Wisconsin State Beekeepers' Association in the late 1920's, and editor of Wisconsin Beekeeping in the years 1924-1931.
Related Material
Steenbock Memorial Library, the agricultural library of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, contains one of the finest collections of bee literature in the world, with special strength in literature written in English, French, German, and Dutch; it houses the C.C. Miller Collection, which is made up of the personal libraries of Arthur C. Miller, Charles C. Miller, H. J. O. Walker, and other individuals. Steenbock has material which complements the Charles Dadant Papers; viz, the works of Charles and Camille Pierre Dadant; pamphlets, catalogs, and publications of Dadant & Sons; Kent L. Pellett, Charles Dadant, that Bee Man from Champagne (Lehigh, Iowa, undated), typewritten manuscript, 119 p.; Frank C. Pellett, History of American Beekeeping (Ames, Iowa, 1938); Florence Naile, America's Master of Bee Culture: The Life of L.L. Langstroth (Ithaca, N.Y., 1942); and the bee journals mentioned in the biographical note. Since the Charles Dadant Papers contain letters written in several languages, it may be helpful to read them with the aid of the polyglot dictionary edited by E. E. Crane, Dictionary of Beekeeping Terms (London, 1951).
Administrative/Restriction Information
Presented by the Agricultural Library of the University of Wisconsin-Madison [?], 1967 [?].
Processed by Leonard Wetzler and Joanne Hohler, 1981-1982.
Contents List
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Series: Charles Dadant
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“Biographie de Charles Dadant” by Edouard Bertrand
: Handwriting of Madame Bertrand, 4 p.
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2-9
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Letters to Edouard Bertrand, 1879-1901 (primarily 1880-1895)
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1-2
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Letters from Edouard Bertrand, 1879-1889, 1895
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Miscellany, 1869-circa 1886
: Charles Dadant to the chanoine Collin, 1876 March 20; A. de Zoubareff to Charles Dadant [?], 1886 April 3; biographical sketches of Baron August and Lina von Berlepsch in German, and of Conte Alfonso Visconti di Saliceto and Dottre Cavre Angelo Dubini in Italian; advertisements: Thomas Atkinson, bee-hive patent of 1869 August 10; H. Staggs, beehive patent of 1872 January 9; photographs of European bee men: Josef Kamptner, Gustav Lichtenthaler, Guido Sklenar
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Series: Camille Pierre Dadant
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4-11
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Letters to Edouard and Madame Bertrand, 1895, 1900-1916
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12
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Correspondence, 1885-1935
: Alice Allemand, 1885-1886; Joseph M. Barr, 1931; Alexander Bogdanoff, 1934; Crépieux, 1902; Miot Dadant, 1885; Victor Dumas, 1933-1935; Miller Memorial Library Committee, circa 1920's; Alice Van Overbeke, 1886; A. Wathelet, 1925
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13
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Dadant Family Memorabilia
: High school programs, 1907 and 1913; wedding invitation, 1910
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Series: Charles Dadant & Son
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Incoming Letters, 1867-1892 (primarily 1872-1889)
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A
: D. L. Adair, Edmond Agassis, F. M. Allemand, Henry Alley, Aspinwall & Treadwell
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15
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B
: J. B. Baillière, M.M. Baldridge, Ira Barber, G. Barbo, W. F. and John Barnes, Aaron Benedict, Frank Benton, P. J. Berkmans, J. F. Bingham, J. W. Bittenbender, Dr. Blumhof, J. P. H. Brown, John A. Buchanan, T. S. Bull, Herbert A. Burch
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C-Dui
: W. W. Cary, W. F. Clark, O. Clute, A. J. Cook, Anna L. and H. C. Cowan, Samuel Cushman, H. D. Cutting, A. Daugherty, John M. Davis, G. W. Demaree, W. H. Dolbear, G. M. Doolittle, E. Drory, Dulignon-Desgranges
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Dun-Dur
: Francis Dunham, Durand
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: R. Eckermann & Will, F. Eisenhardt, P. H. Elwood, B. O. Everett
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: Giuseppi (Joseph) Fiorini, A. Fragnière
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G-Ha
: Elisha Gallup, L. Gautier, Raymond Gariel, the pasteur B. De Gelieu, D. S. Given, C. J. H. Gravenhorst, Adam, Christopher and George Grimm, H. Hamet, Lucinda Harrison
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6
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He
: James Heddon
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3
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7
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Ho-K
: Julius Hoffman, Holtermann, W. Z. Hutchinson, D. A. Jones, Ch. Kauffmann, A. L. Kildow, A. J. King, Homer A. King, E. Kretchmer
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La
: L. L. Langstroth
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Le-Lo
: Lehigh Valley Railroad, A. Lévèque, G. B. Lewis, Silas M. Locke
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Ma-Mil
: J. H. Martin,. N. W. McLain, Moses H. Mendelson, G. F. Merriam, C. C. Miller
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4
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Mit-Mu
: N. C. Mitchell, A. Mona, A. F. Moon, L. W. Morris, Charles F. Muth
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5
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N
: J. H. Nellis, Henry Nesbit, Alfred H. Newman, Thomas G. Newman
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4
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6
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0-R
: R. Odinet, G. des Pallières, Erick Parmly, C. O. Perrine, J. E. Pleasants, 0. 0. Poppleton, Rufus Porter, C. J. Quinby, D. W. Quinby, Jean Frederic Racine, A. I. Root, L. C. Root
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S-Vandem
: the abbé Sagot, A. Salisbury, Salvato S. Sartori, J. Schneider, Eugene Secor, J. M. Shuck, Sommer & Schlapp, Gustav Stawitzki, R. L. Taylor, G. L. Tinker, Arthur Todd, Ellen S. Tupper, Thomas Valiquet, L. Vaudemalle
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Vander
: J. Vandervort
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Ve-Vi
: J. Van Deusen, Verdier, Paul L. Viallon, Alfonso Visconti di Saliceto
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: George S. Wagner, Samuel Wagner, William H. Ware, Warsaw [Illinois] Horticultural Society, R. Wilkin, J. W. Winder, William and George W. Wolff, W. D. Wright
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Series: Edouard Bertrand
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5
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Incoming Letters, 1885-1913) (primarily 1907-1913)
: A. Bocquin, 1912; L. Chaponnière, 1913; J. Couterel, 1913; A. F. Devrient, 1908; Aug. Duboeux, 1913; J. Gay, 1913; L. Loris Nulibot [?], 1913; B. Obrist, 1885; B. Odier, 1913; J. Paintard, 1913; J. Rifflart, 1889; Marie Tzerguine, 1907-1908; A. Vibert, 1913
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Series: Frank C. Pellett
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5
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5
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Incoming Letters, (1913-1928
: G. H. Cale, 1916; J. E. Crane, 1913-1928; I. Hopkins, 1917; Arthur C. Miller, 1920; R. A. Morgan, 1915; L. H. Pammel, 1915; J. E. Pleasants, 1915; F. W. L. Sladen, 1919; Emma M. Wilson, 1918
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Series: H. J. O. Walker
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Papers, 1882-(1904-1914)-1930
: Incoming letters: Vinda de Bianchi, 1910, Spanish ms. enclosure; Thomas B. Blow, 1908; E. A. Wallis Budge, 1904; E. F. Phillips, 1914. Transcription of letter, John C. Douglas to William Horton Ellis, Calcutta, 1882 December 26. H. J. O. Walker to H. F. Wilson, 1930 September 24. Notes by W. P. on “The Bees: A Poem” by John Evans, handwritten ms., 4 p. Finer to Pilnik, Budapest, 1904 March 4, in Magyar; Prof. R. Fecht to R. Friedländer & Son, Gölitz, 1908, June 5, in German.
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Series: H. F. Wilson
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Papers, 1861, 1897-1937 (primarily 1931-1932): incoming letters: Maurice George Dadant, 1937, letter enclosure, Samuel Wagner to the Rev. D. C. Millett, 1861 January 12; N. E. France, 1931; George W. York, 1932. Inventory of “The Bee Library of the Late L.L. Langstroth,” 1897 June 11,
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Miscellaneous ephemera
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