The Life of the Bee 
in their hereditary memory, must be in- 
separable from the calyx of flowers where 
their flight, for so many centuries past, 
has been sumptuously and voluptuously. 
welcomed. 
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It is a little more than a hundred years 
ago that Huber’s researches gave the first 
serious impetus to our study of the bees, 
and revealed the elementary important 
truths that allowed us to observe them 
with fruitful result. Barely fifty years 
have passed since the foundation of ra- 
tional, practical apiculture was rendered 
possible by means of the movable combs 
and frames devised by Dzierzon and 
Langstroth, and the hive ceased to be 
the inviolable abode wherein all came to 
pass in a mystery from which death alone 
stripped the veil. And lastly, less than 
fifty years have elapsed since the improve- 
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