Melissēlogia, or, The female monarchy : being an enquiry into the nature, order, and government of bees, those admirable, instructive and useful insects. With a new, easy, and effectual method to preserve them, not only in colonies, but common hives, from that cruel death, to which their ignorant, injurious, and most ingrateful owners so commonly condemn them. A secret unknown to past ages, and now published for the benefit of mankind / Written upon forty years observation and experience. By the Reverend Mr. John Thorley, of Oxon. ; illustrated with copper-plates