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Miss Bumby’s Mission by J. M. Laird Microscopy and the social life ofIn 1838 when Mary Bumbys brother John decided to travel from England to be a missionary in New Zealand, she went with him. And she took two hives of live bees on their arduous six month sea voyage. This story tells, in her own words, how both Mary and her skeps of bees survived this incredible adventure. When they landed in the Hokianga, she became New Zealands first beekeeper. Based on Marys actual diary and accounts by others, this novel shows near