American bee journal . rvant Burnens. He himself mani-fested the most untiring perseverance,and the greatest ingenuity, so that, byBurnens sagacity, all of Hubers ex-periments with bees were practicallydemonstrated. Miss Jurine, who loved natural his-torj- above all else, supplementedHubers work all she could, fearing not to take up the dissecting-knife andmicroscope in his aid. She was thefirst after Swammerdam to demon-strate that worker-bees are it was, too, who, with Hnber, es-tablished the principles on which thesages of our century grounded the doc-trine of parthenogenesis. B
American bee journal . rvant Burnens. He himself mani-fested the most untiring perseverance,and the greatest ingenuity, so that, byBurnens sagacity, all of Hubers ex-periments with bees were practicallydemonstrated. Miss Jurine, who loved natural his-torj- above all else, supplementedHubers work all she could, fearing not to take up the dissecting-knife andmicroscope in his aid. She was thefirst after Swammerdam to demon-strate that worker-bees are it was, too, who, with Hnber, es-tablished the principles on which thesages of our century grounded the doc-trine of parthenogenesis. Besides Jurine was Huliers secretary, fullof willingness and self-devotion. Everyday she noted down the results of thenew investigations, and she also wrotethe letters, which Huber dictated, toCharles Bonnet and his friends, andimparted to him the results of hislabors, and directed their attention tonumerous (piestions relating to bees. Hubers interest in bees was greatlyenhanced bv tlie re«e;irches and writ-. FBAXCIS HCUER. ings of Swammerdam, Reaumur, Schi-rach, and probably also the celebratedSwiss bee-keeper, Duchet de Remauf-fens, and the Messrs. Gelieu. As aconclusion to the investigations ofthese men, it was possible for him, inspite of his unfortunate surroundings,to add greatly to the realm of apicul-ture ; hence we may not forget that heeverywhere encouraged and helpedothers by the nobility of his life. In his latter days he lived retired,but in peace, at Lausanne, where hedied Dec. 22, 1832, at the age of 83. Hubers discoveries are known toscholars through his letters to CharlesBonnet ; and they made his name socelebrated in all Europe, and even inAmerica, that for many years he wasrecognized as the greatest apiculturalgenius ; and even yet Hamet calls himthe greatest of the lovers of bees (/cplus grand cles apiphiks). It was in 1796 that his first epoch-making work was brought to light,bearing the title, Xonrelles Observationssur les Abeilles (New Observat
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