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Abbott, C. N., Frame-hives, [146]
Abdomen of bees, [102]
Accident at Stafford House, [164]
Acclimatising Bees (Appendix), [349]
Advice by Butler, [333]
American Bee Journal, [190]
Anatomy of bees, Plates I. and II., facing pages [34] and [86]
Anecdote from Butler, [336]
" of French clergyman, [334]
" showing provision made for swarming, [78]
Antennæ of bees, [94]
Apiary, Geo. Neighbour & Sons, ([frontispiece])
" description of, [330]
Applying supers, [264]
Artificial swarming, [233]
Asiatic bees, [49]
Austrian ditto (Lower), [46]
Bar-frame holder, [192]
Bar Supers, [183]
Bath and West of England Agricultural Association, [42]
Bee as an insect, [7]
" dress, [208]
" feeders, Nutt's, [126]
" bottle, [203]
" can, [204],
" round, [205]; wood, [206]
" houses, [166]-179
" traps, [201]
" veil, [210]
Beehives, various, [108] to 165
Bee-keeping in London, [322]
" Zoological Gardens, [328]
" Horticultural Gardens, [329]
" St. John's Wood, [329]
" Hampstead, [330]
Bees, do they go to sleep? 31
" increase of, [82]
" head of, [88]
" eye of, [90]
" mouth, [91]
" tongue, [92]
" mandibles, [93]
" sense of hearing, [95]
" " smell, [96]
" antennæ. 96
" thorax and organs of motion, [97]
" breathing, [100]
" stomach, [102]
" honey bag, [102]
" produce of wax, [103]
" sting, [104]
" dislike to hive, [221]
" enemies of, [315]
" profitably kept, [336]
Bell glasses, see glasses
Berlepsch, Baron von, [4], [6], [10], [36], [42], [49], [75], [211]
" theory of drone-breeding, [69]
" on swarming, [77]
" breeding superfluous princesses, [81]
Bevan, Dr., [3], [18], [66]
Black Bees, [71]
Book-keeping recommended, [332]
Box Fumigator, [206]
British Bee-keepers' Association, [6], [48]
Caledonian Apiarian Society (Appendix), [354]
Carbolic acid, use of, [208], [220], [305]
Carniolan bees, [45], [46], [53], [78]
Change of frame-hives beneficial in spring, [223]
Cheshire's (F.) frame-hive, [145]
" nucleus hive 197
" transferring board, [192]
" wax guide-maker, [191]
Comb-building in supers, [338]
" fixing in ditto, [262]
" foundations (American), [190]
Combs, placing in frame-hives, [223]
Common cottager's hive, [108]
Corri, Herr, [47], [78]
Cottage hive, improved, [114]
Cottager's hive, no
" improved ditto, [112]
" improved frame-hive, [142]
Cotton, Rev. W. C., [5], [45], [78]
Covers, zinc, for hives, [171], [172]
" wood, [172], [174], [175], [177], [179]
Cowan's (Mr.) plan of working frame-hives, [255]
Crystal Palace skep, [109]
Cyprian bees, [47]
Darwin, Dr. 56, [57]
Dathe, [53]
" plan of fertilizing queens with Italian drones, [253]
Diseases of bees, [306]
Dönhoff, Dr. 5, [65], [96]
Driving, [226]
" best condition for, [228]
" useful for taking honey, [229]
Drone bee, [19], [62]
" " has no father, [64]
" eggs, theory of production, [62], [252]
" trap, [201]
" comb, to be used sparingly, [224]
Drone comb, building of, sometimes to be avoided, [238]
Dummy frame, [140], [143]
Dzierzon, Dr., [4], [10], [36], [42], [44]
" description of the round of the bees' concerns, [32]
" on swarming, [77]
" not a smoker, [210]
Egg-laying, [10], [67]
Eggs and transformations, [59]
Ekes, description of, [186]
Epitaph on brimstoned bees, [85]
Evans' (Dr.) poem on bees, [3],
quotations from, [59], [75], [76], [107], [165]
Extracting honey from comb, [274]
Extractor, honey, [193]
Eyes of bees, [89]
Faculties, and functions, [54]
Feeder, Nutt's, [126]
Feeders, (various), [202]
Feeding, [279]
Fertile workers, [62], [67]
Fittings and apparatus (outside), [166]
Flat-topped glasses, [182]
Foul brood, [307]
" Langstroth, Woodbury, and Dzierzon on, [308], [312]
Fox, Mr. George, [278]
" Mr. S. Bevan, [278], [332]
Frame-hive, putting swarm into, [219]
" facility for placing combs, [223],
" with cover and stand, [175], [177], [179]
Frames, removing, [268]
French exhibition, [165]
Fumigators, [206]
Fumigating, description of, [231]
General hints on frame-hives, [254]
" remarks, [332]
Gerstäcker, [54]
Glass hives, ladies' observatory, [120]
" frame, [138]
" with cover and super, [177], [178]
Glasses for supers, [180], [181], [182]
Guide comb, [188], [261]-264
" maker (Cheshire's), description of, [191]
Hawkins, Mr. Waterhouse, [50]
Head of bee, [88]
Hearing of bees, [95]
Heath bees, [46]
Hints, general, on frame-hives, [254]
Hives, modern, [108] to 165
" sometimes destroyed by entrance being stopped, [343]
Hiving swarms, [212]
Honey bag of bees, [102]
" cutters, [193]
" description of, [296]
" extractor, [193]
" test when adulterated, [297]
Houses for hives, [166]
Hruschka, Von, [193]
Huber, [62]
Hunter's, Mr., support for hive when driving, [229]
Impressed wax sheets, [187]
Improved cottage hive, [113]
" cottager's hive, [112]
" ditto, no windows, [119]
Increase of bees, [82]
Insects necessary for existence of flowers, [59]
Italian bee, [34], [35], [41]
Italianising hives, [251]
Kerner, [58]
Kleine, Herr, [5], [35], [244]
Klipstein, Von, anecdotes of queens, [22], [66]
Knowledge of bee-keeping necessary for a gardener, [343]
Ladies' Observatory Hive, [120]
Lanarkshire bee-keeper, [297]
Lanarkshire hive, [155]
Langstroth, Rev. L. L., [3], [5], [10], [43]. 83. 85, [129], [346]
Langstroth, Rev. L. L., on transferring swarms, [220]
Lee's supers, [145], [146]
Legs of bees, [98]
Leuckart, Professor, [64], [66]
Ligurian bee, [7], [34]
London apiaries, [325]
Lower Austrian bees, [46]
Lubbock, Sir John, [6], [57], [59]
Mahan, Mr., [9]
Mandibles of bees, [91]
Manipulation with bees, [212]
" " frame-hives, [269]
Mel-extractor, [196]
Melting down combs, [275]
Mouth of bees, [91]
Munn, Major, [129]
Nadirs, description of, [186]
Neighbours' improved cottager's hive, [113]
Neighbours' improved cottage-hive, [114]
Neighbours' new frame-hive, [139]
New cover and stand for frame-hives, [175], [176], [179]
New wood feeder, [206]
Nucleus hive, [197]
Nutt's hive, [123]
Orchard, good place for an apiary, [56]
Organs of sensation, [88]
" motion, [97]
" reproduction, [62]
Parthenogenesis, [64]
Pasturage for bees, [293]
Payne's (I. H.) glass, [182]
Perforated zinc adapter, [141], [143], [144], [200]
Philadelphia Exhibition, [160];
and Appendix, [350]
Philadelphia hive, [143]
Pollen basket, [98]
" preservation from incursions of ants, [58]
" description of, [298]
" substitute for, [299]
Position of hives, [292]
Propolis, [300]
Queen, [8]
Queen, power of egg-laying, [10]
" homage paid to fertile, [12]
" no attention bestowed on virgins, [13]
" two queens in a hive, [15]
" sting of used for depositing eggs, [15]
" some queens will not fight, [15]
" consternation at loss of, [16]
" life of, [19]
" fertilisation of, [11], [20], [22], [24]
" in relation to sexes, [63]
" at swarming time, [73]
" and drone preventers, [200]
" rearing, [17], [27], [77], [243]
" cells, [17], [244]
" securing, [228], [240]
" introducing stranger, [247]
" cages, [198], [244]
Quilts, [180]
Rationale of swarming, [72]
Relation of sex to cells, [67]
" plants to insects, [56], [57]
Removing bees, [259]
" supers, [266]
" frames, [268]
Reproductive economy, [62]
Renfrewshire bee-keeper, [24], [41], [154]
" queen cage, [199]
" instructions on supering, [337]
Robbing, [225], [305]
Rorl's (Mr.) way to get quit of fertile workers, [67]
Round feeder, [205]
Royal cells, [17], [244]
" " transferring, [198]
" duels, [15], and Appendix
Salt obtained by bees, [30], [97]
Samuelson's work,. The Honey Bee, [5], [91], [96]
Siebold, Von, on Parthenogenesis, [64]
Skep, Crystal Palace, [109]
" (old), transferring combs from, [223]
Slow feeding, [204]
Smelling, sense of, largely possessed by bees, [96]
Smith, Mr. J., [48]
Smyrnæan bees, [47]
Society of Arts, [57]
Stands for hives, [118], [170]
Stewarton hive, [146] to 155, [337]
Sting, [104]
" prevention and cure, [286]
Stocks (old) transferring, [222]
Stomach of bees, [102]
Straw frame-hive, [136], [141]
" hives, round, [108] to 120
Stupefying bees, [207]
Supers, [180], [181], [182], [183], [184], [185]
Superstitions about bees, [341]
Supplying natural comb, [261]
Swammerdam, [63]
Swarm, number of bees composing, [79]
" second flight disastrous, [214]
" often mix, [214]
" taking, [214]
" sending to a distance, [217]
" conveyance of, [217]
" transferring, [218]
" returning, [218]
" brought from a distance, [219]
" should be fed, [221]
" truant, [78], [317]
" artificial, [233]
Swarming, rationale of, [72]
" provision made for, [74], [78]
" signs of, [80]
" a provision of Nature, [212]
Taylor, the late Mr. H., [37]
Taylor's glasses, [181]
Thorax of bee, [97]
Tongue of bee, [92]
Transferring board, [192]
" swarms, [218]
" old stocks, [222]
Tristram, Rev. H. B., extract from his book, [51]
Tube fumigator, [207]
Unicomb observatory hive, outdoor, [157]
Unicomb observatory hive, directions for, [160]
Unicomb observatory hive, indoor, [162]
Uniting weak colonies, [229]
Ventilation performed by bees, [30], [285]
Ventilators, [124]
Vulcanite for feeding-stage, [203]
Wasps, [315]
Warder, Dr., experiment with swarm, [77]
Water for bees, [30], [331]
Wax, how produced, [103]
" impressed sheets of, [187]
" secretion of, [302]
Weighing hives, [276]
Wildman's bees, [322]
Wings for bees, [97]
Winter precautions, [283]
Wood cover, [172]
" feeder, [206]
Woodbury, T. W., [37], [42], [49], [50]
" frame-hive, [134]
" mode of hiving swarm, [216]
" mode of transferring swarm, [220]
" hive cover, [174]
Xenophon's army poisoned with honey, [298]
Zinc covers, ornamental, [171]
" " plain, [172]
" rests, [140]
" adapters, perforated, [141], [143], [144], [200]
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