Two Good Books for Your Winter Reading

摘要

This book brings to mind the old Willie Dixon tune "You Can't Tell a Book by its Cover": "I look like a farmer, but I'm a lover." Well, this looks like a text book — with black and white charts, drawings and diagrams. (Right off, on the title page the reader is left to puzzle out what an Anthecology Department does.) But plain and academic as it looks, the book reads like the work of a bee lover. No one not enamored could write such caring biologic descriptions of twelve different kinds of sensory hairs on the bee or the tongue lengths among the eight races of Apis mellifera.