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The historic guide to the practical essentials of beekeeping. *On the impregnation of the queen bee *On M. Schirach's discovery *Experiments proving that there are sometimes common bees which lay fertile eggs *On the combats of queens; the massacre of the males; and what succeeds in a hive where a stranger queen is substituted for the natural one *Sequel of observations on the reception of a stranger queen; M. de Reaumur's observations on the subject *Is the queen oviparous? What influence has the size of the cells where the eggs are deposited on the bees produced? Researches on the mode of spinning the cocoons *On the formation of swarms *Additional observations on queens that lay only the eggs of drones, and on those deprived of the antenna *Economical considerations on bees

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Francois Huber (July 2, 1750 - December 22, 1831) was a Swiss naturalist. He was born at Geneva, of a family which had already made its mark in the literary and scientific world: his great-aunt, Marie Huber, was known as a voluminous writer on religious and theological subjects, and as the translator and epitomizer of The Spectator (Amsterdam, 3 vols., 1753); and his father Jean Huber (1721-1786), who had served for many years as a soldier, was a prominent member of the coterie at Ferney, distinguishing himself by his Observations sur le vol des oiseaux (Geneva, 1784). Francois Huber was only fifteen years old when he began to suffer from a disease which gradually resulted in total blindness; but, with the aid of his wife, Marie Aimee Lullin, and of his servant, Francois Burnens, he was able to carry out investigations that laid the foundations of a scientific knowledge of the life history of the honey bee. His Nouvelles Observations sur les Abeilles was published at Geneva in 1792 (Eng. trans., 1806). A second volume of work published along with the first came out in 1814 which covered many more subjects including the construction of comb and experiments on the respiration of bees. He assisted Jean Senebier in his Mem. sur l'influence de l'air, etc., dans la germination (Geneva, 1800); and he also wrote Mem. sur l'origine de la cire (Bibliotheque britannique, tome xxv.), a Lettre a M. Pictet sur certains dangers que courent les abeilles (Bib. brit. xxvii), and Nouvelles Observ. rel. au sphinx Atropos (Bib. brit. xxvii). He died at Lausanne on 22 December 1831. A. P. de Candolle gave his name to a genus of Brazilian trees-Huberia burma. (Wikipedia)

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