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- Transcriber's note
- NEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BEES, BY FRANCIS HUBER. TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL.
- CONTENTS.
- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
- LETTER I. ON THE IMPREGNATION OF THE QUEEN BEE.
- Letter from M. Bonnet to M. Huber.
- Letter from M. Bonnet to M. Huber.
- LETTER II. SEQUEL OF OBSERVATIONS ON THE IMPREGNATION OF THE QUEEN BEE.
- LETTER III. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.—OBSERVATIONS ON RETARDING THE FECUNDATION OF QUEENS.
- LETTER IV. ON M. SCHIRACH'S DISCOVERY.
- LETTER V. EXPERIMENTS PROVING THAT THERE ARE SOMETIMES COMMON BEES WHICH LAY FERTILE EGGS.
- LETTER VI. ON THE COMBATS OF QUEENS: THE MASSACRE OF THE MALES: AND WHAT SUCCEEDS IN A HIVE WHERE A STRANGER QUEEN IS SUBSTITUTED FOR THE NATURAL ONE.
- LETTER VII. SEQUEL OF EXPERIMENTS ON THE RECEPTION OF A STRANGER QUEEN. M. DE REAUMUR'S OBSERVATIONS ON THE SUBJECT.
- LETTER VIII. IS THE QUEEN OVIPAROUS? WHAT INFLUENCE HAS THE SIZE OF THE CELLS, WHERE THE EGGS ARE DEPOSITED, ON THE BEES PRODUCED?—RESEARCHES ON THE MODE OF SPINNING THE COCCOONS.
- LETTER IX. ON THE FORMATION OF SWARMS.
- LETTER X. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
- LETTER XI. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
- LETTER XII. ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON QUEENS THAT LAY ONLY THE EGGS OF DRONES, AND ON THOSE DEPRIVED OF THE ANTENNÆ.
- LETTER XIII. ECONOMICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON BEES.
- APPENDIX.
- ANALYTICAL INDEX.
- Transcriber's notes
- Transcriber's notes
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