  CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS, CHAPTER II GENERAL HISTORY OF BEES. CHAPTER III SKETCH OF THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE GENERA OF BRITISH BEES. CHAPTER IV NOTICE OF THE MORE CONSPICUOUS FOREIGN GENERA OF BEES. CHAPTER V PARASITES OF BEES AND THEIR ENEMIES. CHAPTER VI GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC ARRANGEMENT. CHAPTER VII BRIEF NOTICE OF THE SCIENTIFIC CULTIVATION OF BRITISH BEES. CHAPTER VIII. A NEW ARRANGEMENT OF BRITISH BEES, WITH ITS CHAPTER IX. A TABLE, EXHIBITING A METHOD OF DETERMINING THE GENERA OF BRITISH BEES WITH FACILITY. CHAPTER X. THE SCIENTIFIC ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION OF THE The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ECONOMY OF THE BEES Indigenous to the British Isles. BY W. E. SHUCKARD, AUTHOR OF ‘ESSAY ON THE FOSSORIAL HYMENOPTERA,’ ‘COLEOPTERA DELINEATED,’ ‘ELEMENTS OF BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY,’ MONOGRAPHS OF THE ‘DORYLIDÆ,’ ‘AULACIDÆ,’ ETC. ETC.; AND TRANSLATOR OF BURMEISTER’S ‘MANUAL OF ENTOMOLOGY.’ LONDON: LOVELL REEVE & CO., 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1866. WILLIAM WILSON SAUNDERS, ESQ., F.R.S., TREAS. & V.P.L.S., F.Z.S., TREASURER OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, ETC. ETC. ETC., IN TESTIMONY OF THE ABILITY, ZEAL, AND LIBERALITY WITH WHICH HE CULTIVATES AND PROMOTES THE SCIENCE OF ENTOMOLOGY; AND AS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF MUCH KINDNESS, EXTENDING OVER MANY YEARS, This Volume IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY HIS FAITHFUL SERVANT, W. E. SHUCKARD. |
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