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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Miner, The American Bee Keeper's Manual. CUL-DAR205.11.119. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.11 contains notes on Instinct, change in habit.

T. B. Miner. 1849. The American bee keeper's manual: being a practical treatise, etc. New York: C. M. Saxton.

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Miners' American Bee Keepers Manual 1849

p. 83 — says he has seen Bees ventilating "arrayed on bottom-board in files in platoons, as regularly as an army on parade"— Add that I watched Hive in evening for 20 minutes, & after opening it heard gret buzzing & cd most plainly feel with moistened finger stung in draught.

p. 337 gives some curious cases of Buttresses built in a Hive which he often turned over, & of the case of a sort of trap-door, which often fell down, & after a week he found "the cover so deeply imbedded in propolis, that it could not be easily removed."—

Ch. 10

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