 The available evidence challenges as myth the idea that Wren was himself a 'bee master'; it is more likely that he simply cooperated with his mentor, John Wilkins, and drew the hive that several were interested in.John Evelyn records in his "Diary" his experience with these hives, but left an illustration of a hive that has features that clearly link with the Stewarton.David Smith worked on Evelyn's unpublished manuscript material for his "Elysium Britannicum" and published this in 1965.