A Book of Natural History

Huxley, Darwin, Wallace, Burroughs and Maeterlinck, writing for young readers — thirty-odd essays by the great naturalists on everything from the man-like apes to what worms do.

The Foundations of a Wonderful City

3 pages in this part of A Book of Natural History.

The Foundations of a Wonderful City

(FROM THE LIFE OF THE BEES.) BY MAURICE MAETERLINCK. (TRANSLATED BY MARIE JOSEPHINE WELSH.) H ERE in their new new home there is nothing…

The Foundations of a Wonderful City: Huber

Huber, who was the first to study these operations with marvellous patience, and sometimes not without personal danger, has written more…

The Foundations of a Wonderful City: Buffon

Buffon had a theory which has been revived once more, that the bees did not intend to make hexagonal cells, but rather round ones, and that…

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