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THIS book is based upon first-hand observations carried out during thirteen consecutive seasons on the bumble bees known to inhabit New England and other parts of North America. The author is evidently an ardent and skilled field observer, and has pro duced a very readable and interesting natural history study. Bumble bees have not hitherto received very much attention from the biological point of view in America, although an excellent taxonomic guide is available in Franklin's “Bombidae of the New World”. Dr. Plath has already written a number of papers on bumble bees in various North American periodicals and, while the substance of this work has been incorporated in the pr sent volume, the greater part of its contents consists, he tells us, of material not hitherto published.
Bumblebees and their Ways.
By Prof. Otto Emil Plath. Pp. xvi + 201 + 11 plates. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1934.) 17s. net.
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I., A. [Short Notices]. Nature 134, 614 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134614b0
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