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| - Excepting only a certain brevity of treatment, this small volume by Mr Sannders appears to form a very excellent littlo treatise of a popular nature on a group of insects which, while admittedly of interest to many, are yet for various reasons not so well known as they might be. lha solitary and social groups are first separately dealt with, after which we are given several short chapters concerned either with various forms of . special interest or with generalities such as the method by which a bee's tongue can suck honey, the distribution of species, the vagaries of colour, development, and so forth.
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| - Excepting only a certain brevity of treatment, this small volume by Mr Sannders appears to form a very excellent littlo treatise of a popular nature on a group of insects which, while admittedly of interest to many, are yet for various reasons not so well known as they might be. lha solitary and social groups are first separately dealt with, after which we are given several short chapters concerned either with various forms of . special interest or with generalities such as the method by which a bee's tongue can suck honey, the distribution of species, the vagaries of colour, development, and so forth. The language is simple and straightforward, while i the large and clear printing, together with an I adequate proportion of text-figures and coloured plates, make the book an extremely easy and pleasant one to read. We regret only the shortness of some of the chapters, which seem, after having nicely aroused our interest, to let us fall with rather too sudden a drop ; yet, from the genuine amateur's point of view, tins may be less of a fault than we may imagine, and he will probably feel that he has received just so much initiation into the subject as is good for the moment, while being properly stimulated to make f urth< inquiries after a due digestion of the facts here presented, and this we gather is the authors intention. WILD BEES, WASPS AND ANTS And Other Stinging Insects By EDWARD LAUNDERS F.R.S., F.L.S., etc With numerous Illustrations in the text, and Four Coloured Plates by CONSTANCE A. SAUNDERS LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LIMITED NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
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