The Natural History of Bees: Comprehending the Uses and Economical Management of the British and Foreign Honey-bee; Together with the Known Wild Species. Illustrated by Thirty-six [i.e. Thirty-two] Plates Coloured from Nature, with Portrait and Memoir of HuberW.H. Lizars, 1840 - 301 σελίδες |
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The Natural History of Bees: Comprehending the Uses and Economical ... James Duncan Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2018 |
The Natural History of Bees: Comprehending the Uses and Economical ... James Duncan Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2018 |
The Natural History of Bees: Comprehending the Uses and Economical ... James Duncan Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2018 |
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Σελίδα 123 - We also find it on plants in stoves, and green-houses covered with glass. If it exuded from the plant, it would appear on all the leaves generally and uniformly ; whereas its appearance is extremely irregular, not...
Σελίδα 187 - It is better, on this account, in graduating the bottle, to make two scratches as represented in the drawing, one at the top and the other at the bottom of the curve : this prevents any future mistake.
Σελίδα 122 - Selbourne regarded it as the effluvia of flowers, evaporated and drawn up into the atmosphere by the heat of the weather, and falling down again in the night with the dews that entangle them. Curtis* is of opinion that it is neither an exudation of the sap of trees, nor falls from the atmosphere, but that the true and only source of this saccharine matter is to be found in the insect Aphis, or vine* Linnaean Transactions, vol.
Σελίδα 110 - ... of geometry ; somewhat like a child, who, by turning the handle of an organ, makes good music, without any knowledge of music. The art is not in the child, but in him who made the organ. In like manner, when a bee makes its comb so geometrically, the geometry is not in the bee. but in that great Geometrician who made the bee, and made all things in number, weight, and measure.
Σελίδα 208 - ... trembling posture. When I perceived the veil was of no farther service, she gave me leave to remove it; this done, a most affecting spectacle presented itself to the view of all the company, filling me with the deepest distress and concern, as I thought myself the unhappy instrument of drawing her into so imminent hazard of her life. Had she enraged them, all resistance would have been vain, and nothing less than her life would have atoned for the offence. I spared not to use all the arguments...
Σελίδα 207 - A young girl of my acquaintance was greatly afraid of bees, but was completely cured of her fear by the following incident. A swarm having come off, I observed the queen alight by herself at a little distance from the apiary. I immediately called my little friend that I might show her the queen ; she wished to...
Σελίδα 196 - ... having on board some hives made of earthenware full of bees, was pursued by a Turkish galley manned by 500 seamen and soldiers. As soon as the latter came alongside, the crew of the privateer mounted the rigging with their hives, and hurled them down on the deck of the galley. The Turks, astonished at this novel mode of warfare, and unable to defend themselves from the stings of the enraged bees, became so terrified that they thought of nothing but how to escape their fury; while the crew of...
Σελίδα 62 - Here, then, it is pretty evident," says the doctor who tells the story, " that some change had taken place in the Counsellor's secretions, in consequence of the fever, which, though not noticeable by his friends, was offensive to the olfactory nerves of the bees.
Σελίδα 286 - To such inexpert clowns, as they probably thought us, the honey and the bees were inaccessible, and indeed invisible, save only when the natives cut it out and brought it to us in little sheets of bark, thus displaying a degree of ingenuity and skill in supplying their wants which we with all our science could not hope to attain.
Σελίδα 277 - Isaaco's people, being in search of honey, unfortunately disturbed a large swarm of bees near where the coffle had halted. The bees came out in immense numbers, and attacked men and beasts at the same time. Luckily most of the asses were loose, and galloped up the valley ; but the horses and people were very much stung, and obliged to scamper in all directions. The. fire which had been kindled for cooking being deserted, spread, and set fire to the bamboos ; and our baggage had like to have been...