Beers
HENRY AUGUSTIN, an American educator, born in Buffalo in 1847. He graduated from Yale University in 1869, and in the following year he was admitted to the bar of New York.
He joined the faculty of Yale University as tutor in 1871 and became assistant professor in 1864 and professor of English literature in 1880. He wrote "A Century of American Literature" (1878); "From Chaucer to Tennyson" (1890); "The Ways of Yale" (1895); "Points at Issue" (1904); etc. He was a frequent contributor to the leading magazines and wrote, in addition to those mentioned above, several volumes of verse.
BEERSHEBA (now Bir-es-Seba, "the well of the oath"), the place where Abraham made a covenant with Abimelech, and in common speech, representative of the southernmost limit of Palestine, near which it is situated. It is now a mere heap of ruins. :
BEES' WAX BEES" WAX, the wax of bees, used by them for constructing their cells. It is a secretion elaborated within the body of the animal from the saccharine matter of honey, and extruded in plates from beneath the rings of the abdomen.