The paper that I gave today at the NAVSA conference was about bees and beehives - nineteenth century ones, but read through Wolfgang Buttress's The Hive and his Liverpool exhibition last year (I was so glad that I took as many pictures as I did). It was a condensed version of my book's conclusion: having been asked some good questions, I can see that the conclusion itself may very well expand a little ... Earlier, much earlier in the day, what's more, I heard a paper about the children's nature writer Arabella Buckley, which included this double page on bees, and this gave me another source that I hadn't looked at - I'd wanted an example of bees in nature illustrations as attractive as this, and here, happily, it appeared - not in time for me to get it into my paper, but I was very grateful. So: bzzzzzzzz.
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