The Life of the Bee 
unfailing, abundant treasure into which 
every subsequent writer has dipped. And 
though a few mistakes may be found 
therein, a few incomplete truths; though 
since his time considerable additions have 
been made to the micrography and prac- 
tical culture of bees, the handling of 
queens, etc., there is not a single one of 
his principal statements that has been 
disproved, or discovered in error; and 
in our actual experience they stand 
untouched, and indeed at its very 
foundation. 
[3] 
Some years of silence followed these 
revelations; but soon a German clergy- 
man, Dzierzon, discovered parthenogene- 
sis, i. é. the virginal parturition of queens, 
and contrived the first hive with movable 
combs, thereby enabling the bee-keeper 
henceforth to take his share of the harvest 
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