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I shall very often have the opportunity of quoting Redi, the 
first and the most ardent among the opponents of the craze of 
the Bugonia. But he contented himself with ridiculing it, with- 
out ever trying to explain its origin. 
Antonio Vallisnieri, Esperienze ed Osservazioni, spettanti 
all’ Istoria Naturale e Medica. Second edition. Padova 1726. 
The first edition is dated 1713. I quote from the second. 
Antonio Vallisnieri (1661—1730) was Professor in Padua. 
Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault (1683—1757). Mémoires 
pour servir 4 Vhistoire des insectes. 6 vol. 4°. Paris, 1734—42. 
I quote from this original 4° edition, and principally from 
Vol. IV (1738), 
Joh. Heinr. Voss. Virgilii Georgicon, Libri IV, tibersetzt 
und erklért von J. H. V. 1789. 
I have also consulted the excellent Commentary on the 
Georgics by J. Conington, London 1865, and made use of some 
of his remarks on the episode of Aristaeus. The Commentaries 
of Prof. Martyn, on the Georgica (London 1741 and 1749), which 
I find quoted in Smith’s Diction. Biogr. and Mythol. etc. I have 
not been able to consult. 
Joh. Beckmann. Antigoni Carystii historiarum mirabilium 
collectanea. Lipsiae 1791. 
This is a learned commentary upon the work of Antigonus 
of Carystus. About the latter comp. Suppl. X, under Antigonus. 
William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography 
and Mythology. — 3 vol. London 1853—56. 
Gualterus Robert-Tornow. De apum mellisque apud veteres 
significatione symbolica et mythologica. Berolini, apud Weid- 
mannos 1893. 
This is an interesting compilation of passages from Greek 
and Roman authors, concerning bees and honey in mythology, 
literature and history. It contains many other references, ety- 
