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England's Interest. By Sir J. More.............................................................................................. 109

Chap. VI. Of the Husbandry and Employment of Bees, and the

great Profit and Advantage thereof ..................................... 111

The Introduction

I. Of the Bee-garden and Seats for the Hives

ib.

112

II. Of the Hives, and manner of Dressing them........................ 114

III. Of the Breeding of Bees, and of the Drone ................................................... 119

IV. Of the Swarming of Bees, and the Hiving of them............... ib.

V. Of the Bees' Enemies, and how to destroy them

VI. Of the removing of Bees ................................................. 126

VII. Of the Fruit and Profit of Bees....................................... 128

Glossary of Bee Terms used in this Reprint

MEAIEEHAOTIA; or, the Female Monarchy. By the Rev. John Thorley 143

The Author to the Candid and Judicious Reader
145

Chap. VI. Sect. I. Language of Bees........................................... 155

IX. Of Ordering and Improving them in Colonies............. 161

X. How to Preserve them in Common Hives, uniting two

in one by Fumigation

Sydserff's Treatise on Bees

The Preface .............

177

............ 179

Chap. I. An Anatomical Description of the Common or Working

Bees, and of the Effects of their Stings ...................................................... 183

III. The particulars of the Queen or Mother Bee, with various

practical Experiments to prove the Loyalty of her Sub-

jects

IV. On the Breeding of Bees, Wasps, and other Insects, with

Directions for making yourself known to Bees, and to

prevent being stung

191

216

V. Of the Swarming. of Bees, and the Methods of discovering

when they may be expected, with other matters............ 206

VI. On the Driving of Bees, with necessary Instructions for

that purpose

VII. The Manner of Bees' Working, and when and in what

manner only they ought to be removed ........................ 218

VIII. On the Feeding of Bees, with Instructions for late Swarms,

and the Hives most proper to be taken

XI. On the probable Profits of Bees, and of their Increase, with

some of their Medicinal Properties

223

227

II.

LETTER TO COTTAGERS ON THE NATURAL THEOLOGY OF BEES......... 233

in Surinam (Captain Stedman) .................................................................................. 338

Extract from Kirby ............................................................... 340

Bee Cuckoo and Honey Ratel

Bees in South America (Basil Hall)

Extract from White of Selbourne-Jesse's Gleanings

342

344

Sir Thomas Browne on the Bee's Voice (Vulgar Errors)..................... ib.

Translation from an Arabic Dictionary....

Washington Irving's Tour on the Prairies.

A Bee Hunt in America

Hartlib's Reformed Commonwealth of Bees.

Virgil's Experiment tried in Cornwall

Taking Bees to New Zealand ......................................................... 355

ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO LETTERS I. and II.

.................................... 365

ERRATUM.

Page 88, line 4 from bottom, for fingers," read "fungus."

Comb, showing the Hexagonal Top of the Cell.............................................................. 272

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Bagster, S. The management of Bees. 12mo. London: 1838. Bazin, N. Histoire Naturelle des Abeilles. 12mo.

des Abeilles.

Paris: 1784.

Gouvernement admirable, ou la République 8vo. Haye: 1746. Abrégé de l'Histoire des Insectes, pour servir de

suite à l'Histoire naturelle des Abeilles. 12mo. Paris: 1747.