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Title: New observations on the natural history of bees

Author: Francis Huber

Translator: Anonymous

Release Date: August 28, 2008 [EBook #26457]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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NEW OBSERVATIONS
ON THE
NATURAL HISTORY
OF
BEES,

BY
FRANCIS HUBER.

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL.

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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._

CONTENTS.

LETTER 1.--On the impregnation of the queen bee page 1

LETTER 2.--Sequel of observations on the impregnation
of the queen bee 41

LETTER 3.--The same subject continued; observations
on retarding the fecundation of queens 44

LETTER 4.--On M. Schirach's discovery 76

LETTER 5.--Experiments proving that there are
sometimes common bees which lay fertile eggs 89

LETTER 6.--On the combats of queens; the massacre
of the males; and what succeeds in a hive
where a stranger queen is substituted for
the natural one 108

LETTER 7.--Sequel of observa