The Phillips' Beekeeping Collection at Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library is one of the largest and most complete apiculture libraries in the world. The Hive and the Honey Bee grew out of a presentation on the Phillips collection at the 2002 Eastern Apiculture Society conference and is something of a digital child of that print collection. At present, it consists of the full text of thirty rare books from the Phillips Collection, and each book is fully searchable. For more information on The Hive and the Honey Bee and the Phillips Collection, please see our About page.