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Payne's Apiarian's Guide. 



We will now take the first 20 of Stephens's genera in the 

 order (6.) Hymenoptera (the last order yet published in 

 Stephens's second edition). The first genus is the same in 

 both, it is Cimbex, number 675 of Stephens and 453 of 

 Curtis. The arrangement is the same in both editions of 

 Stephens : — 



So much for the genera. The arrangement of the species 

 in both editions of Stephens's Nomenclature is very similar, 

 and very different from the arrangement of them in Curtis's 

 Guide, as far as I have compared them. 



Will Mr. Curtis now say that Stephens has "copied column 

 after column " from his book ? If so, let him point them out, 

 for I cannot find them ; neither can I find the copied cor- 

 rections, unless he refers to the genus Cicindela. In the 

 plan of the two works there is certainly a resemblance, but 

 quite sufficient difference for any person, who is at all ac- 

 quainted with entomology, to perceive, at first sight, that 

 Stephens's second edition of his Nomenclature is not a second 

 edition of Curtis's Guide. Mr. Curtis must not introduce the 

 names of sections, of families, or the synonymes, which cor- 

 respond with subdivisions of his genera ; for, if he does, he may 

 with equal justice be charged with copying from Mr. Stephens's 

 Nomenclature. — Charles C. Babington. Bath, August 2. 1833. 



Payne, J. H., Author of the " Cottager's Guide" : The 

 Apiarian's Guide ; containing Practical Directions for the 

 Management of Bees upon the Depriving System. 8vo, 

 80 pages and 2 copperplates. London, Simpkin and 

 Marshall, 1833. 



The result of nearly forty years' experience; and, although 

 we possess no apiarian skill, we cannot doubt of the value of 

 the book, for we know the author, and know that he, in his 

 own neighbourhood (Bury St. Edmunds), is deemed an au- 

 thority- on the subject of bees. His own hives we have fre- 

 quently seen, and they always seemed admirably managed. 

 The greatest matter of surprise to us is, that, so intimately 

 familiar with the subject as is. the author, he could yet so 

 curb himself as to condense the amount of his experience 

 and his reading into so concise a space. 



For curing the sting of a bee the author notices the 



