1. Robert, Richards, ?Why Darwin Delayed, or Interesting Problems and Models in the History of Science,? J. Hist. Behav. Sci., 19 (1983), 45?53.
2. H. Malcolm, Fraser, History of Beekeeping in Britain (London: Bee Research Assoc. 1958).
3. Robert, Huish, A Treatise on the Natural Economy and Practical Management of Bees (London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1815), p. 1.
4. The first English edition of Francis Huber's work was published anonymously in Edinburgh in 1806 and a second edition was published in 1821. An edition was also published in London for Thomas Tegg in 1841, under the title Huber's Natural History of the Honey Bee: A New Edition with a Memoir and Appendix. Virtually every author in the field of entomology that followed Huber admittedly relied on him for information on the honey bees. Among Huber's followers were the natural theologians William Kirby and William Spence who exerted much influence on Darwin. In the nineteenth century it would have been impossible to disagree with Prof. A. P. de Candolle, who wrote ?... nothing of any importance has been added to the history of bees since [Huber's]time? (cited in William, Dunbar, ?Memoir of Huber,? in The Naturalists Library, ed. Sir, William, Jardine, vol. 28 [Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1833], p. 18).
5. Edward, Bevan, The Honey Bee: Its Natural History, Physiology, and Management (London: John Van Voorst, 1838). This text was widely accepted and became a standard English work on beekeeping for quite some time. Laudatory reviews appeared in the Entomological Magazine in 1835 (24 270?276), Annals of Natural History in 1839 (2: 283), and the Magazine of Natural History in 1838 (11: 550?552). Of course, Bevan included Huber's findings in his text in addition to some original discoveries.