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The Mason-Bees
J. Henri Fabre
出版1st World Publishing, 2004-10
主題Fiction / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralNature / Animals / Insects & Spiders
ISBN142180557X9781421805573
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tfGveP_aAP8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.