author

William Hetherington Harris

b. 1835

A Victorian writer on beekeeping, he is best remembered for a detailed and accessible study of honey bees that helped bring natural history and practical hive knowledge to general readers.

1 Audiobook

The honey-bee: its nature, homes and products

The honey-bee: its nature, homes and products

by William Hetherington Harris

About the author

William Hetherington Harris was a 19th-century British author associated with beekeeping and popular natural history. The clearest published record found here identifies him as William Hetherington Harris, 1835-, and links him to The Honey-bee; Its Nature, Homes and Products, issued in London by the Religious Tract Society in 1884.

That book is the work he is chiefly known for today. It explores the life of the honey bee, the structure of the hive, and the products of bee culture in a style aimed at interested general readers as well as practical bee-keepers.

Reliable biographical details beyond his birth year were not clearly confirmed in the sources reviewed, so it is safest to remember him mainly through his writing on apiculture rather than through a fuller personal record.