1.3 linear feet
One of the first beekeepers to import bees into California and inventor of innovative beehives and new methods of rearing queen bees; author of An improved system of propagating the honey bee (1860) and The beekeepers' directory (1861).
1857-1920.
Finding Aid on the Online Archive of California
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