William Hetherington Harris

William Hetherington Harris is listed in major library catalogs as a British author born in 1835. He is chiefly remembered for The Honey-Bee: Its Nature, Homes and Products, published in London by the Religious Tract Society in 1884.

That book helped bring beekeeping and bee biology to a broad readership. Modern library and ebook records describe it as a detailed yet accessible study of honey bees, covering the structure of the hive, the roles of queen, drones, and workers, and the making of honey.

Reliable biographical detail beyond those publication records is scarce in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to see Harris primarily as a 19th-century popular writer on bees whose surviving reputation rests on this well-known volume.