Curious Experiments for Preventing the Waste of Honey, and Preserving the Lives of Bees During the Winter: By a Gentleman Near the Banks of the Tweed, from the Repository of Select Papers on Agriculture, Etc., Numb. II.A.P. Beresford, Alexander Dedekind, Andrew Jameson, Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, Benjamin Kidd, Bouffier de Sauvages, Charles Bucke, Edward Latham Ormerod, Esq. Thomas Hale, George Hubbard, Harry Wallis Kew, Herbert S. Shorthouse, I. Hopkins, James Caldwell, James Cavanah Murphy, Lippi, M.M.M., T. Slevan, Thorsley, Travers James Briant, William Carr, William Dunbar, William Hyde Wollaston |
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... less liable to absorb moisture , and so destroying that power . As the coating prevents the transmission of the internal heat of the insects in summer , this will tend to raise the temperature too high for the health of the bees . This ...
... less liable to absorb moisture , and so destroying that power . As the coating prevents the transmission of the internal heat of the insects in summer , this will tend to raise the temperature too high for the health of the bees . This ...
Page 161
... less and less frequent , we may doubt at what point tones suited to produce any musical effect terminate ; yet all persons but those whose organs are palpably defective , continue sensible of vibratory motion , until it becomes a mere ...
... less and less frequent , we may doubt at what point tones suited to produce any musical effect terminate ; yet all persons but those whose organs are palpably defective , continue sensible of vibratory motion , until it becomes a mere ...
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... , wrought upwards ; so that in four days or less , the upper comb and this middle piece met , and the whole separate parts were joined , and be- came one square , see Fig . 7 . Rev. Mr Dunbar on the Instinct and Operations of Bees 18 .
... , wrought upwards ; so that in four days or less , the upper comb and this middle piece met , and the whole separate parts were joined , and be- came one square , see Fig . 7 . Rev. Mr Dunbar on the Instinct and Operations of Bees 18 .
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... less , on one side of the comb , instead of laying in all the empty cells in the same quarter , she leaves it and goes to the other side , and lays in the cells which are direct- ly opposite to those she has just supplied with eggs ...
... less , on one side of the comb , instead of laying in all the empty cells in the same quarter , she leaves it and goes to the other side , and lays in the cells which are direct- ly opposite to those she has just supplied with eggs ...
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... less risk of the liquid running over before it is sealed . 9. It has been often said , that the queen is attended in her progress through the hive by a number of her subjects , formed in a circle round her , and these have , of course ...
... less risk of the liquid running over before it is sealed . 9. It has been often said , that the queen is attended in her progress through the hive by a number of her subjects , formed in a circle round her , and these have , of course ...
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Page 340 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
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Page 350 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 351 - His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself, with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. " Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the...
Page 351 - Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Page 63 - Yet there is something to be said on the other side of the question.
Page 350 - Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 117 - WHEN Solomon was reigning in his glory, Unto his throne the Queen of Sheba came (So in the Talmud you may read the story). Drawn by the magic of the monarch's fame, To see the splendors of his court, and bring Some fitting tribute to the mighty king.
Page 117 - Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is much like the smell of Lebanon.
Page 117 - Besides, the Queen had heard (which piqued her most) How through the deepest riddles he could spy ; How all the curious arts that women boast Were quite transparent to his piercing eye ; And so the Queen had come — a royal guest — To put the sage's cunning to the test.