122 Life and Writings of Francis Huber. 
which he denominated the flat hive, permitted him to observe the 
labors of the community in their minutest details, and to follow each 
bee in its operations. They were greatly facilitated by the skill of 
Burnens and by his zeal in the search of truth; he braved, without 
hesitation, the anger of a whole = in order to discover the least ~ 
fact, and he would seize an eno s wasp’s nest, in spite of the 
painful attacks of the whole oni. which defended it. We may 
ge from this of the enthusiasm which his master, (and I here 
employ the term in the sense, not of the relation of a master to his 
domestic, but of that of an instructor to his pupil,) we may judge; 
I say, of the enthusiasm in favor of truth or fact, with which Huber 
was able to inspire his agents. 
The publication of these works took place in 1792 i in the form of 
letters to Ch. Bonnet, and under the title of ‘* Nouvelles Observa- 
tions sur les Aber es.”*  'This work made a strong impression on 
not only from the novelty of the facts, but from 
heir? rigorous exactness, and the singular difficulty against which.the 
author had struggled with so much abiliege Most of the Academies 
of Europe, (and especially the Academy of Sciences of Paris) ad- 
mitted Huber, from time to time, among their associates ;—the post 
Delillet celebrated his blindness and his discoveries, and from this 
‘time he was placed in the first rank among the most skilful, I was 
going to say, the most clear sighted observers. 
The activity of his researches was relaxed sila by this ously 
success which might have satisfied his self-love, nor by the embar- 
rassments which he suffered in consequence of the revolution, nor 
even by a separation from his faithful Burnens. Another assistant 
course became necessary. His first substitute was his wife, then 
his son, Pierre Huber, who began from that time to acquire a just 
celebrity i in the history of the economy of antsy and various other 
insects, commenced his apprenticeship as an observer, in assisting his 
father. It was principally by his assistance that he made new 
dporious researches relative to his favorite insects. ‘They form the 
pee 
. " See the © seventh chant in the poem des Trois Régnes, which begins with 
Enfin de leur hymen savant dépositaire, Z 
ae oe Huber V’a vu par les ~— wees 
—Et sur. probléme un nouveau joural 
Another edition was Sr oe in ohne in 1796 in one 
volume, 12mo. shoreco 
ractical treati of bees was 
nymously Bare fo ee c Huber reatise on the management 
