| The Mason-Bees Contributor(s): Fabre, Jean-Henri (Author), Fabre, J. Henri (Author), 1stworld Library (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1421803577 ISBN-13: 9781421803579 Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2006 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Animals - Insects & Spiders - Literary Collections |
| Dewey: 595.799 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.94 lbs) 228 pages |