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Title: British Bees

Author: William Edward Shuckard


Release date: December 18, 2017 [eBook #56201]
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Language: English

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BRITISH BEES.

BRITISH BEES:
AN INTRODUCTION
TO THE STUDY OF THE
NATURAL HISTORY AND ECONOMY OF THE BEES
Indigenous to the British Isles.
BY
W. E. SHUCKARD,
AUTHOR OF ‘ESSAY ON THE FOSSORIAL HYMENOPTERA,’ ‘COLEOPTERA
DELINEATED,’ ‘ELEMENTS OF BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY,’ MONOGRAPHS OF THE
‘DORYLIDÆ,’ ‘AULACIDÆ,’ ETC. ETC.; AND TRANSLATOR OF BURMEISTER’S
‘MANUAL OF ENTOMOLOGY.’
LONDON:
LOVELL REEVE & CO., 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1866.
J. E. TAYLOR AND CO., PRINTERS,
LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS.
TO
WILLIAM WILSON SAUNDERS, ESQ.,
F.R.S., TREAS. & V.P.L.S., F.Z.S.,
TREASURER OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY,
ETC. ETC. ETC.,
IN TESTIMONY OF THE ABILITY, ZEAL, AND LIBERALITY
WITH WHICH HE CULTIVATES AND PROMOTES
THE SCIENCE OF ENTOMOLOGY;
AND
AS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF MUCH KINDNESS,
EXTENDING OVER MANY YEARS,
This Volume
IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,
BY HIS FAITHFUL SERVANT,
W. E. SHUCKARD.