^{page 14 note 1} 19 May 1956.

^{page 15 note 1} It is generally accepted that H.A. ix was not the work of Aristotle himself: Klek und Armbruster, Bienenkunde des Altertums i. 3. Any knowledgeable bee-keeper would support this view owing to the difference of approach in the two writers.

^{page 15 note 2} ‘First Attempts at Animal Ethology in Greek Biology’ in Actes du VII ^eCongrés d'Histoire de Sciences (Paris, 1953).Google Scholar

^{page 15 note 3} J.H.S. Ixxv (1955), p. 24.Google Scholar

^{page 15 note 4} Presumably in an observation hive. Aristotle used a glass cover (according to a fourteenth-century Arabic authority), and Pliny (N.H xi. 49) mentions hives of transparent lantern horn.