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William Augustus Munn

An early practical writer on beekeeping, remembered for describing the bar-and-frame hive and explaining how to manage bees through the year. His surviving work has the feel of a hands-on guide written for working beekeepers rather than casual readers.

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A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive With an Abstract of Wildman's Complete Guide for the Management of Bees Throughout the Year

A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive With an Abstract of Wildman's Complete Guide for the Management of Bees Throughout the Year

by William Augustus Munn

About the author

William Augustus Munn is known for 19th-century writing on beekeeping, especially A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive, a work that was published in 1851 and is still the title most often associated with him.

The sources available here point much more clearly to his books than to his personal life. Library and bookseller records connect his name with beekeeping manuals and related editions, including A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive and an edition of The Honey Bee: Its Natural History, Physiology, and Management.

Because reliable biographical details are scarce in the material I could confirm, it is safest to remember him as a specialist author in practical apiculture: a writer focused on hive design, bee management, and clear instruction for readers who wanted to keep bees successfully.