| The Mason-Bees Contributor(s): Fabre, Jean-Henri (Author) |
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ISBN: 0559933819 ISBN-13: 9780559933813 Publisher: BiblioLife OUR PRICE: $26.78 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Reaumur (Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur (1683-1757), inventor of the Reaumur thermometer and author of "Memoires pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des insectes." - Translator's Note.) devoted one of his papers to the story of the Chalicodoma of the Walls, whom he calls the Mason-bee. I propose to go on with the story, to complete it and especially to consider it from a point of view wholly neglected by that eminent observer. And, first of all, I am tempted to tell how I made this Bee's acquaintance. It was when I first began to teach, about 1843. I had left the normal school at Vaucluse some months before, with my diploma and all the simple enthusiasm of my eighteen years, and had been sent to Carpentras, there to manage the primary school attached to the college. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Animals - Insects & Spiders - Literary Collections - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) |
| Dewey: 595.799 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5" W x 8" (0.71 lbs) 324 pages |
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