216 APFENDIX— Continued 



CowEN, T. W. "Bee-Keeper's Guide Books." The first 

 of these Httle volumes is a clear and excellent account 

 of the anatomy of the bee. The second is a concise 

 and helpful book on the methods of bee-keeping as 

 practiced in England. 



HuBER, Franz. "Nouvellea Observations sur les Abe- 

 illes," published in 1792. English translation in 1841. 

 This classic in bee literature is one of the most delightful 

 of all the bee books that have been written. It shows 

 the careful methods of this blind scientist who has 

 given us more of the understanding of the bee and its 

 life than any other investigator or writer. 



Hutchinson, W. Z. "Advanced Bee Culture." 



Hutchinson, W. Z. "Comb Honey." Mr. Hutchinson 

 is one of our most successful bee-keepers, and he writes 

 clearly and understandingly of his methods. 



Langstroth, L. L. "The Hive and Honey-Bee." This 

 classic in American apiculture has been revised and 

 kept up-to-date by the scholarly Dadants', father and 

 son, who are well known on two continents as success- 

 ful bee-keepers. This book written by the father of 

 American apiculture is comprehensive, and is good 

 literature as well as good bee-keeping. 



Lubbock, Sir John. "Ants, Bees and Wasps." Al- 

 though this is a book of scientific experiments, it should 

 be read by every bee-keeper. No other book tells 

 so well the patience and ingenuity necessary to 

 discover what the bee knows and why it does certain 

 things. 



Maeterlinck, Maurice. "The Life of the Bee." This 

 exquisite piece of literature and social philosophy has 

 attracted much attention, and has introduced the 

 world at large to the wonderful life of the honey-bee 

 in such a poetic and dramatic manner, that most people 

 have regarded it as a work of fiction. Maeterlinck 

 is said to be a practical apiarist, and his book is based 

 upon the facts of bee life as he understood them at the 

 time the book was written. Though some of his facts 

 be questioned, yet probably his statements are no 

 more doubtful than would be those of almost any bee- 

 keeper should he try to write what he thinks he knows 



