Melisselogia, or, The female monarchy
Subtitle: being an enquiry into the nature, order, and government of bees, those admirable, instructive and useful insects : with a new, easy, and effectual method to preserve them, not only in colonies, but common hives, from that cruel death, to which their ignorant, injurious, and most ingrateful owners so commonly condemn them : a secret unknown to past ages, and now published for the benefit of manking
By: written upon forty years observation and experience by the Reverend Mr. John Thorley, of Oxon
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1744
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Bees; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Female monarchy
Notes: Later editions published under title: An enquiry into the nature, order, and government of bees.

Illustrated with copper-plates.

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.