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The Honey-Bee: Its Natural History, Physiology and Management
by Edward BevanAlthough the great addition which has of late been made to our knowledge of the honey-bee, may seem to render a reference to ancient writers comparatively unimportant; yet a few prefatory observations, upon the rise and progress of apiarian science, may not be out of season.The natural history and management of bees would probably occupy the attent..
The Hunting Wasps
by Jean-Henri FabreHenri Fabre’s essays on Wasps will fill three volumes in all, of which this is the first. The others will be entitled The Mason-Wasps and More Hunting Wasps. The former will include the chapters on the Common or Social Wasp. The first seventeen chapters of the present book appeared some years ago, wholly or in part, in a version of vol. i. of the S..
History of Iridotomy
by S. Lewis ZieglerTo Cheselden has been conceded the honor of being the father and originator of iridotomy. Nearly two centuries have elapsed since he first published the report of his procedure in the Philosophical Transactions for 1728. Ever since that time, his signal success has been acknowledged by all except those who either failed to equal his dexterity, or w..
Philosophumena Volume II
by Antipope HippolytusThese are the contents of the 6th (book) of the Refutation of all Heresies. What Simon has dared, and that his doctrine is confirmed (by quotations) from magicians and poets. What Valentinus has laid down, and that his doctrine is not framed from the Scriptures, but from those of the Platonists and Pythagorists. And what is thought by Secundus, Pto..
Father Thames
by Walter HigginsEngland is not a country of great rivers. No mighty Nile winds lazily across desert and fertile plains in its three and a half thousand miles course to the sea; no rushing Brahmaputra plunges headlong down its slopes, falling two or three miles as it crosses half a continent from icy mountain-tops to tropical sea-board. In comparison with such as t..
The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government
by Victoria C. WoodhullThe Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government is a review of the rise and fall of nations from early historic time to the present; with special considerations regarding the future of the United States as the representative government of the world and the form of administration which will secure this consummation. Also, papers on human equalit..
Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story
by Gilbert Livingstone WilsonThe Hidatsas, called Minitaris by the Mandans, are a Siouan tribe and speak a language closely akin to that of the Crows. Wars with the Dakota Sioux forced them to ally themselves with the Mandans, whose culture they adopted. Lewis and Clark found the two tribes living in five villages at the mouth of the Knife river, in 1804.In 1832 the artist Cat..
Dairy Disagreeables Busy the Bacteriologists
by F. H. HallThe flavor of good milk and cream, then, is an inherent quality due to the normal constituents of the milk; the flavors of butter, both good and bad, except that due to the fat and to odors absorbed by the milk, are held to be the result of bacterial action; the fundamental flavors of cheese are probably due to chemical decomposition, started by un..