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Bee-Culture at Present

FROM the time of Pliny in the second century of our era to that of Swammerdam in the middle of the seventeenth century nothing of importance was written upon the natural history of bees. Then come Réaumur, Linnæus, De Geer, Bonnet, and at the close of the eighteenth century Latreille and Lamarck, and a little later Cuvier. These with a few others did the important original work necessary to the elucidation of the world of nature and incidentally of bees. But there were popular writers and practical bee-keepers who from the seventeenth century to the present time have added their contributions, more or less valuable, to the literature of natural science.