294 Bibliographical Notices* Observations surles Abeilles' in an English dress in 1806, we know of no treatise on the subject equal to the ' Honey-Bee' for accuracy of information in respect to the natural history of the insect and minute-ness of practical detail. The work is divided into two parts, of the first of which nearly 50 pages are occupied with a general view of the history and physiology of the bee, as far as relates to the personal description of the three essential members of the bee community, viz. the queen, the worker, and the male or drone, particularly as respects the impregnation of the queen, the effects of its retardation, and the laying and hatching of the eggs. The author then proceeds to give detailed instructions for the practical management of the bee, comprehending descriptions of the ceconomy of the apiary, of the best form of hives, of the mode of proceeding during the season of swarming, of feeding, protecting, and transporting the bees at the proper periods, and of the manipu-lation of honey and wax. In Part II. Dr. Bevan gives an account of the anatomy of the bee ; enters into a more enlarged detail of its physiology than had been given in Part I., and discusses at considerable length, and with great per-spicuity, the senses, instincts, and the wonders of its architecture. The work is distinguished by sound philosophical views, and is written in a style of classical elegance and simplicity. The author professes not to offer much in the way of original discovery, but to give a popular view of the present state of apiarian knowledge, hi-storical, physiological, and practical ; and that he has succeeded in his object, the well-deserved popularity of his book, and the conse-quent call for a new edition, furnish abundant evidence. The first edition was deficient in point of arrangement ; this has been satis-factorily remedied : many particulars connected with the natural hi-story of the insect, formerly stated but briefly, have been enlarged or modified conformably with the more advanced state of the science, and some additional directions have been given as to practical ma-nagement, which well deserve the attention of the bee-master. Plantce Javanicce Rariores, descriptor iconibusque illustrate, quas in Insula Java, annis 1802 — 1818, legit et investigavit T. Horsfield, M.D. e siccis descriptions et characteres plurimarum elaboravit J. J. Bennett ; observationes structuram et affinitates prcesertim respi-cientes passim adjecit R. Brown. Part I. — Allen and Co., Leaden-hall Street, 1838. [Continued from p. 222.] The twelfth article relates to Conocephalus suaveolens,B\., a genus referrible to Mr. Brown's family of ArtocarpeG, and nearly related
Plantæ Javanicæ Rariores, descriptæ iconibusque illustratæ, quas in Insula Java, annis 1802–1818, legit et investigavit T. Horsfield, M.D. e siccis descriptiones et characteres plurimarum elaboravit J. J. Bennett; observationes structuram et affinitates p
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