New observations on the natural history of bees

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Franois Huber

CONTENTS.

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

LETTER I. ON THE IMPREGNATION OF THE QUEEN BEE.

LETTER II. SEQUEL OF OBSERVATIONS ON THE IMPREGNATION OF THE QUEEN BEE.

LETTER III. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. OBSERVATIONS ON RETARDING THE FECUNDATION OF QUEENS.

LETTER IV. ON M. SCHIRACH'S DISCOVERY.

LETTER V. EXPERIMENTS PROVING THAT THERE ARE SOMETIMES COMMON BEES WHICH LAY FERTILE EGGS.

LETTER VI. ON THE COMBATS OF QUEENS: THE MASSACRE OF THE MALES:

LETTER VII. SEQUEL OF EXPERIMENTS ON THE RECEPTION OF A

LETTER VIII. IS THE QUEEN OVIPAROUS? WHAT INFLUENCE HAS THE

LETTER IX. ON THE FORMATION OF SWARMS.

LETTER X. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

LETTER XI. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

LETTER XII. ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON QUEENS THAT LAY ONLY THE

LETTER XIII. ECONOMICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON BEES.

APPENDIX.

ANALYTICAL INDEX.

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The four figures appear in a single illustration in the original. In this etext they also appear close to the text that refers to them: Fig 1, Fig 2, Fig 3, Fig 4.

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NEW OBSERVATIONS
ON THE
NATURAL HISTORY
OF
BEES,
BY
FRANCIS HUBER.
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL.

EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR JOHN ANDERSON,
AND SOLD BY
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME,
LONDON.
ALEX SMELLIE, Printer.
1806.

To
SIR JOSEPH BANKS, Bart.
KNIGHT OF THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER
OF THE BATH, A PRIVY COUNCILLOR,
PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL
SOCIETY OF LONDON,
&c. &c.
THIS TRANSLATION
IS INSCRIBED.


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