Beekeeping Literature Online Initiative

The list below includes the ten top-ranked monographs from the Everett F. Phillips Beekeeping Collection scheduled for digital processing as on-line resources. Probable availability via the Core Historical Literature of Agriculture Collection (http://chla.library.cornell.edu/) will be in early 2004.

For more questions or more information about volume ranking, please contact life sciences bibliographer Linda Stewart (email: lgs1@cornell.edu; tel.: 607.255.9022).

Alley, Henry.
Title: The beekeeper's handy book ; or, Twenty-two years' experience in queen-rearing, containing the only scientific and practical method of rearing queen bees, and the latest and best methods for the general management of the apiary.
Published: Wenham, Mass., The author, 1883.

Doolittle, Gilbert M., 1846-
Title: Scientific queen-rearing as practically applied; being a method by which the best of queen-bees are reared in perfect accord with nature's ways. For the amateur and veteran in bee-keeping.
Published: Chicago, T. G. Newman, 1889.

Dzierzon, Jan, 1811-1906.
Title: Dzierzon's rational bee-keeping; or, The theory and practice of Dr. Dzierzon ... Tr. from the latest German ed. by H. Dieck and S. Stutterd. Ed. and rev. by Charles Nash Abbott ...
Published: London, Houlston & sons; [etc., etc.] 1882.

Harbison, W. C.
Title: Bees and bee-keeping: a plain, practical work: resulting from years of experience and close observation in extensive apiaries, both in Pennsylvania and California. With directions how to make bee-keeping a desirable and lucrative business and for shipping bees to California.
Published: N. Y. Saxton, 1860

Huber, François, 1750-1831.
Title: New observations on the natural history of bees, by Francis Huber. Translated from the original.
Published: Edinburgh, Printed for J. Anderson; London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806.

Langstroth, L.L. (Lorenzo Lorraine), 1810-1895.
Title: Langstroth on the hive and the honey-bee; a bee keeper's manual.
Published: Northampton, Hopkins, Bridgman, 1853.

Munn, W. Augustus.
Title: A description of the bar-and-frame hive, invented by W. Augustus Munn, esq. With an abstract of Wildman's Complete guide for the management of bees throughout the year ...
Published: London, John Van Voorst, 1844.

Quinby, M. (Moses), 1810-1875.
Title: Mysteries of bee-keeping explained: being a complete analysis of the whole subject; consisting of the natural history of bees, directions for obtaining the greatest amount of pure surplus honey with the least possible expense, remedies for losses given, and the science of "luck" fully illustrated--the result of more than twenty years' experience in extensive apiaries.
Published: New York, C. M. Saxton & company, 1853.

Phillips, Everett Franklin, 1878-1951.
Title: Beekeeping; a discussion of the life of the honeybee and of the production of honey.
Published: New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd., 1915..

Root, A. I. (Amos Ives), 1839-1923.
Title: The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; an encyclopedia pertaining to scientific and practical culture of bees.
Published: Medina, Ohio, A. I. Root Co. 1879.