STORAGE   M61   m61

Photograph"" measures 8.5" X 6.5" approx, is in good condition, showing very light photograph ageing, handling   (see scans

Dr John Anderson worked hard to promote beekeeping education in Scotland. 

Dr Anderson spent his early life on Orkney, he graduated from Aberdeen University in both Arts and Science and later was awarded his Ph.D.  He was a science teacher at the Nicolson Institute on Stornoway and it was there that in 1910 he designed the Nicolson Observational hive which he used for educational purposes.  An article was published in the May 1911 British Bee Journal on how to use the Nicolson Hive. 

Beekeeping Education.

In 1915, John Anderson became the first lecturer in Beekeeping at the North of Scotland College of Agriculture.  He was the person who set up the apiary at Craibstone and lectured and demonstrated all over Scotland.   He wrote articles for The Scottish Beekeeper, other British and Foreign Beekeeping Journals.   He was considered to be an expert in handling bees and was described by Mrs Shepherd as one of the best she had ever seen.

He was chairman of The Aberdeen District Beekeepers’ Association which at that time had more than 1,600 members and was the largest beekeeping association in Britain.  He was Honorary President of The Glasgow and District Beekeepers’ Association and also had been President of The Apis Club.  He was president of the Scottish Beekeepers’ Association in 1919, writing the lead Article in the first editions of The Scottish Beekeeper, then becoming its editor from 1926 until his sudden death in 1939.