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Babilos, 337

Bacchus, 274, 275, 276, 315.

Balm of Pontus, 182.

Bana, 244, 245.

Bancroft, 174.

Index Bates' "Naturalist on the River Amazons," 371.

Bavaria, 343.

Bear, 165, 166, 167, 168, 231, 232, 337.

Beaumont and Fletcher, 129.

Bedas of Ceylon, 202.

Bedouins, 255- Bee-balm, 358.

Bee-bread, 147, 148, 149, 173.

Bee-chapel, 325.

Bee Creek, 93.

Bee culture in America, 384.

Bee-father, 354, 355.

Bee-glue (see Propolis), 149.

Bee-god, 270, 337.

Bee-gums, 382.

Bee-hat, 111.

Bee-hive, 157, 207, 320.

Bee-hunters, 168, 365.

Bee Journal, 340, 377.

Bee-keeper, 107, 172.

Bee-keeping, 314.

Bee-line, 43, 66, 67, 168.

Bee-martin, 170.

Bee-masters, 373, 374.

Bee-milk (see Royal Jelly), 123.

Bees-wax, 166, 370.

Bee, symbolical of creative power, 231, 258, 268, 269, 274, 358; see also Appendix; symbolical of immortality of soul, 269; symbolical of purity, 324, 325; symbolical of resurrection, 272, 273, 274, 324; symbolical of soul, 320, 324. Bees, as augurs of good or bad fortune, cine, 85; as nymphs, 258; as priestesses, 257; as prophets, 336, 359; as prophets of eloquence, 320; as prophets of greatness, 286, 287; as prophets of white man's approach, 377; as weather prophets, 352; eaten by bears, 167; birds, 169, 170; foxes, 168; frogs, 170; hornets, 171; lizards, 171; people, 174; pigs, 169; spiders, 171; toads, 170; tree-frogs, 170; wasps, 171; age of worker, 152; classification of, 14, 15; communal life of, 135; description of, 13; disposition of, 103, 104; distances sent, 128; drowned in cane juice, 194; die from famine, 385; easily handled, 107, 356, 357, 358; enclosed in amber, 292; feeding others, 153; foragers, 147; gathering pollen, 147; intoxicated, 194, 242; introduced to America, 165, 377; kinds imported, 128; manner of working, 143; means of defence, 91, 92; moonlight work, 152, 178; names of places, 359; names of periodicals, 360; new breed formed, 127; new varieties introduced to America, 389; origin of good women, 358; perish through milkweed, 183; poisoned by flowers, 192; race odor of, 84; toilet of, 153; transported for pasture, 369, 385, 386, 387, 388; used as medicine, 85; when queen is removed, 119.

Bee's madrigal, 48.

Beestings, 309.

Bee-tree, 165, 166, 168, 169, 245, 381, 382.

Beeville, 359.

Benton, Frank, 123, 366, 384.

Beowulf, 210, 211.

Bergius, 342.

Bernard of Clairvaux, 320.

Bethlehem, 387.

Bevan, 85, 182, 199, 216, 217. (See Appendix.) Bhavabhuti, 243, 244. 229, 283-287, 350; as emblem of Bible, 258-263. well-governed state, 297; as medi- Bienenzeitung, III. Birds that eat bees, 169, 170.

Black bears, 167.

Black bumble-bees, 167.

Black comb, 147, 188.

Black honey, 187.

Index Black wax, 88, 187, 188, 318, 373, 381.

Blue thistle, 179. (See Viper's bugloss.) Bochart, 93.

Candy, 10.

Cane-sugar, 10, 81, 82.

Cape Cod, 381.

Cappadocia, 282.

Carcasses for breeding bees, 116, 117, 271, 272.

Caribbean Islands, 174.

Carniolan bees, 389.

Carolina, 159, 179, 193, 341, 382.

Bombus, 15, 31, 33, 34, 36. (See Cassandra, 285.

Bumble-bee.) Bonner's bald head, 109.

Bonnet, Charles, 362. "Book of the Bee," 320.

Brahma, 232.

Catnip honey, 181.

Cells of wax, 142-147; drone cells, 121; queen cells, 121.

Cerberus, 278, 279.

Ceres, 268, 269, 271, 315. (See Ap- Brain, 54, 55; of queen, 120; of drone, pendix.) 132.

Branched hairs, 77.

Brazil, 187, 371.

Breathing, 67.

Brimstone, 155, 156, 285, 310, 311.

Brisa, 275, 276.

Brittany, 342.

Browning, 127.

Brugsch Bey, 251, 316.

Brushes, for cleaning bee, 76, 77; for pollen, 148.

Buckwheat honey, 180, 181, 182, 387.

Buffon, 169.

Bull and bee, 249, 256, 271, 324.

Bumble-bee, 15, 16, 19, 21, 27-31, 37, 66, 76, 80, 142, 165, 167, 172, 184, 194, 389, 390.

Burmeister, 64.

Burmese, 344- Burns, 349, 350.

Burroughs, John, 84, 148, 162, 163, 164, 165, 168, 181, 182, 388.

Butler, 12, 40, 48, 57, 73, 77, 81, 84, 86, 100, 101, 105, 110, 115, 117, 125, 129, 156, 161, 178, 183, 196, 200, 201, 202, 215, 217, 223, 325, 359. (See Appendix.) Butterfly, 37, 60, 61.

Byron, 375.