No other living insect lias such a literature as tho bee, yet a Government committee iu London, is to take up tho study afresh. Bee lore was ancient when Aristotle dealt with the subject/; tho song of the hive is the theme of Virgil's fourth Georgic; and it< long occupied Pliny. In later days Reaumur, of the thermometer, gavo us a classic on the subject; Huber, the blind Swiss, led tho way for Darjvin and Aveburv and Maeterlinck. Now, after 2090 years, we are .to attempt finality in research, and to do for the health of the queen bee what Pasteur did for the silkworm.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16359, 2 November 1918, Page 13
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