The Honey-Makers

Half natural history, half literature: how the honey-bee actually works — tongue, wings, sting, swarm — and then three thousand years of what people have believed about her, from the Vedas to mead.

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Bee-Culture at Present: Bees

London, 1876 ... 370 "They build their nest" Ree's Encyclopædia, quoted in English trans. of Huber: Obs. on the Nat. Hist. of Bees. 1841.

Appendix "Extraordinarily rich " - Reise in Brasilien. Dr. Joh. Bapt. von Spix. Dr. Carl Friedr. Phil von Martins, 1828. Bates' Naturalist on the River Amazons, chap. viii.

PAGE 371, 372 Russia and Poland rich in bees - John Hunter: A Manual of Bee-keeping. 1875. • 373 Wax of Corsica - Ibid. 373 East Friesland - Langstroth: The Honey Bee 373 Nuremberg celebrated for bee-keepers - Menzel: Myth. Forsch. • 373 "These insects" - Bevan-Munn: The Honey Bee 375 "When John Eliot " quoted by Langstroth from Bee Fournal • 377 "It is surprising" - Washington Irving: Miscellanies. Tour on the Prairies. 1832, chap. ix.

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