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6.8. le fameux Wildman en Angleterre". Here and elsewhere the author refers to Daniel Wildman and not his more worthy uncle Thomas. Daniel W's "Complete Guide " was translated into French & German; but Bella Rocca always alludes to the Italian Translation by Contardi :

let was first bedelle api Cremone, 1975. Wildman's bamph.

first published in 1773.

On 6. 175 of this I " Vol. Wildman is made to say that he has witnessed copulation between drones and the queen in his glass hives, and here Rocca to Mows Contardi and is also in agreement with the French, edition, This is, however an error; the translator having in each case been misled by a wrongly placed comma in the English passage, wh. runs thus, p.16. I am likewise of opinion that the Queen bee, (so far from being the mother of all) breeds none but queens, and that she herself copulates with the Drones, as shave frequently observed my the Glass Hives, many of the males attending hes at the Times of her which is than twice or thrice in a season, and weeding at other Times seem to pay less respect to her than the common Bass. In the 2nd Ed" 1779! of the tract, and in subsequent editions, this badly expressed purequently (in the glass #ties observed many as passage is amended as follows"... copulates with the males attending her at the Times sy her breeding, altho at other Times at they seem to pay less respect to her than to the common bees. y nem after Downes would have made the sense stih clearon, after Hives was fatal.

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LES ABEILLES,

AVEC

Une Méthode nouvelle de les gouverner, telle
qu'elle se pratique à Syra, île de l'Archipel ;
Précédé d'un Précis historique et économique de cette île.
DÉDIÉ A MADAM E.

Par M. l'abbé DELLA ROCCA, Vicaire-Général de Syra.

Je vous donnerai un spectacle de petits animaux, il est
vrai; mais qui sont admirables, malgré leur petitesse.
Je vous parlerai, par ordre, de leurs conducteurs, des
mœurs de leur nation, de leurs inclinations, de leur
manière de se multiplier, et de leurs combats. Le sujet
est mince à la vérité; mais l'utilité n'en sera pas mé-
VIRG. Georg. 4.

diocre..

TOME SECOND.

DE L'IMPRIMERIE DE MONSIEU R.

A PARIS,

Chez BLEUET père, Libraire, pont Saint-Michel.

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