author
Edward Bevan
1770–1860
Best remembered for a pioneering 19th-century book on honey bees, this English physician turned careful observation into lively natural history. His work helped make him one of the early popular authorities on beekeeping.
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The Honey-Bee: Its Natural History, Physiology and Management
by Edward Bevan
About the author
Born in London on July 8, 1770, Edward Bevan trained in medicine after studying in Hereford, London, and Scotland. He built a successful medical career, later retiring to Herefordshire, where he devoted much of his attention to the study of bees.
Bevan is chiefly known for The Honey-Bee: Its Natural History, Physiology, and Management, first published in 1827 and expanded in a revised edition in 1838. The book brought together close observation, practical advice, and scientific curiosity, and it established his reputation as an important early writer on apiculture.
He died in Hereford on January 31, 1860. Though he was a physician by profession, his lasting literary reputation rests on the clear, useful way he wrote about the natural life of the honey bee.