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extremity, a character not to be found in any other Hymenopterous 
group. Many volumes have been written upon the natural history of 


Warder. Apiarium; or, a Discourse cn Bees. London, 1676. — Ditto, A further 
Discovery of Bees, 8vo. London, 1680 (by Rusden).— Ditto, The True 
Amazons; or, Monarchy of Bees. London, 8vo. 1713 (edited by Rusden). 
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Hotton. Letter concerning Swammerdam’s Treatise de Apibus, Philos. Trans. 
1699. 
Thorley. Melissolegia; or Female Monarchy. 8vo. London, 1744. — Ditto, An 
Inquiry into the Nature, &c. of Bees. 8vo. London, 1765. — Description of a 
curious and useful Hive (Journ. Econom. 1767). 
Réaumur. Mémoires, tom. v. 
Mills. On the Management of Bees. 8vo. 1766. ; 
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Hunter, John. Observ. on Bees, in Philos. Trans. 1792. 
Keys. A Treatise on the Breeding, &c. of Bees. 12mo. London, 1814. 
Huish. A Treatise on the Nature, &e. of Bees. 8vo. London, 1815. 
Dunbar. Observations on Bees, Edinb. Philos. Journal, vol. x.; and in Isis, 
1832. 
Barton. Inquiry whether the true Honey Bee is a Native of America, in Trans. 
Americ. Soc. Philadelphia, vol. iii. 
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Coelho de Scabra, Notice sur les diverses Espéces d’Abeilles particuliéres en 
Brazil, in Mém. Math. Phys. Acad. Se. Lisbon, tom. ii. 
EHspargnet. Sur la Réproduction des Abeilles (Bull. Hist. Nat. Soc. Bourdeaux, 
tom. iii. 1829). — Ditto, Essai sur l’Hist. Nat. des Abeilles, in ditto, tom. iy. 
1830. 
Kenig. Solution du Probléme des Cellules hexagones des Ruches des Abeilles, 
in Mém. Acad. des Sci., ann. 1739. 
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Bagster. On the Management of Bees. London, 1834. 
Schirach. Author of numerous Memoirs in German, of which the following are 
the chief; — On the Female Bee, without Impregnation, to the third Genera- 
tion, in Abhandl. der Bienenges. Oberlaus. b. i. — Ditto, on Swarming, in 
ditto, 1766-67, 68. 70. — Ditto, on the Queen Bee, in ditto, 1767. — Ditto, 
on the Males, in ditto, 1768-69. — Ditto, on the Production of Queens from 
Worker Larve, in ditto, 1768. 1771. — Ditto, Further Observ. on Males, in 
ditto, 1770 and 1771. — Ditto, New ifode of multiplying Bees, and causing 
them to swarm in May. 8vo. Badissen, 1761. — Ditto, Melitto-theology. 8vo. 
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