PREFACE 



I AM indebted to the kindness of those responsible 

 for the Edinburgh Review for permission to re- 

 print " The Honey-Bee," " The Romance of the 

 Depths of the Sea/' and " Zoology in the time 

 of Shakespeare/' I thank the editor and the owner 

 of Country Life who have permitted me to reprint 

 " Bombus, the Humble-Bee," and the article on 

 the " Differences between Wasps and Bees/' " Sir 

 John Murray" and the last article of all, " Hate," 

 are reprinted by the kindness of the editor of the 

 Cornhill Magazine. " The Revival of Science in 

 the Seventeenth Century ' J formed part of the 

 eighth volume of the Cambridge History of English 

 Literature, and the editors of these volumes and 

 the syndics of the Cambridge University Press 

 have willingly given me permission to reprint 

 these pages. 



The first essay of all on " Insects and War ' 

 was a lecture delivered before the Royal Society 

 of Arts, which subsequently appeared in their 



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