various stages, but regret that my woodcut is not equal to ray wishes ; but it may 

 suffice, as I am not a professed " wood-cutter." 



The insect is about half an inch long, of a black color. The face, Fig. 9, is 

 densely clothed with yellowish hairs ; the Antennae clavate, with the apical seg- 

 ment subcompressed ; the cheeks, underside and margin of the thorax, and ante- 

 rior segment of the abdomen, sparsely clothed with yellowish hairs. The tibia 

 are black, with a few hairs near the body, except the anterior pair, Fig. 3, Avhich 

 are densely clothed with long, ochrous hairs. Fig. 5, the spurred hind-leg ; the 

 tarsi are covered with short black hairs. Fig. 7, the two jaws — one apparently 

 one-toothed, cutting edge slightly curved. Fig. G is the tongue ; its external 

 sheath, and the maxillary and labial palpi, separated. Fig. 4, the anterior wing, 

 with its cells. 



This species maybe known to those familiar with the insect. I will not venture 

 to name it, but shall be truly obliged to any one who will inform me of its speciQc 

 name. I will append a portion from Kirby and Spence's Entomology, by way of 

 conclusion. 



" The process which one of these bees employs in cutting the pieces of leaf that 

 compose her nest, is worthy of attention. Nothing can be more expeditious ; she 

 is not longer about it than we should be with a pair of scissors. After hovering 

 for some moments over a rose-bush, as if to reconnoitre the ground, the bee alights 

 upon the leaf she has selected, usually taking her station upon its edge, so that 

 \he margin passes between her legs. With her strong mandibles, she cuts with- 

 out intermission in a curve line, so as to detach a triangular portion. When this 

 hings by the last fibre, lest its weight should carry her to the ground, she balances 

 htr little wings for flight, and the very moment it parts from the leaf, flies ofi" with 

 it n triumph, the detached portion remaining bent between her legs in a direction 

 pen^endicular to her body. Thus, without rule or compasses, do these diminutive 

 crettures mete out the materials of their work into portions of an ellipse, into 

 ovah or circles, accurately accommodating the dimensions of the several pieces of 

 each figure to each other. What other architect could carry impressed upon the 

 tablet of his memory the entire idea of the edifice which he has to erect? and, 

 destitite of square and plumb-line, cut out his materials in their exact dimensions, 

 without making a single mistake ? Yet this is what oar little bee invariably does. 

 So far ire human art and reason excelled by the teachings of the Almighty." 



\ MEMOIR OF ANDRE MICHAUX. 



FROM LOUDON'S ARBORETUM. 



Andre VIichaux was born in the Park of Versailles, in 1T4G, and soon evinced 

 a taste for agriculture and botany, which was fostered by his early patron, the 

 court yjhysidan, M. Lemonnier. In 1777, he studied botany under Bernard de 

 Jussieu, at Vrianon ; and in 1770, he was studying in the Jurdin des Plantes. 

 Soon after tlis he went to England, and returned to France with a great number 

 of trees, whici were planted in the gardens of M. Lemonnier, and of the Marechal 

 de Noailles, \Ahere they succeeded perfectly. He often used to take from these 

 gardens a pactet of grafts, and, going through the woods of Versailles, he would 

 graft them on tic trees already there. In 1780, he went to botanize on the mountains 

 of Auvergne wth several botanists, among whom were Lamarck and Thouin. 

 Michaux was tht most active of all of them; besides his musket, haversack, port- 

 folio, and several specimen boxes, he carried in his pocket seeds of the Cedar of 

 Lebanon, which be sowed in favorable situations. Soon afterwards, he w 



