Excerpt from British Social Wasps: An Introduction to Their Anatomy and Physiology, Architecture, and General Natural History, With Illustrations of the Different Species and Their Nests I apprehend, however, no hard criticism to tell me that this book, with all its faults, to which I am keenly alive, should never have been written at all. If I have added anything to our common stock of knowledge, I shall be held excused for having told my story in my own way. And further, if, in so doing, I shall have given as much pleasure to others as I have myself received from such like books, my present contribution to Natural History will have fully answered its purpose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.