Vanden Heuvel on the Honey Bees of Guiana, &c. 79 
Art. XI.—/ memoir* on the honey-bees of America, ad- 
dressed to the Hon. Samuel Mitchill, President 
of the Lyceum of Ni atural History—by Jee. ads 
ae Es sq. 
(Cy } ted fi 7 ti in thi Journal.) 
Sir, 
Consiperine the institution over which you preside as 
the proper depository of such articles of interest or value in 
any of the branches of tea er history, as may be brought 
from foreign « ies ‘I take the liberty 
countries by private means, 
of addressing you for the - purpose: of contributing to their 
cabinet, a collection of bees obtained by me, a re- 
eent residence in Guiana ; indulging a belief that the 1 region 
whence it proceeds will rather increase than diminish the 
interest which it may excite. While most of the provinces 
of South-America have been examined by scientific obser- 
vers both of the old and new shosgmers ome the portion lying 
between the rivers Oronoke and Amazon has attracted but 
ments, arising from the physical aspect of: the: saleacen a ed 
been alone sufficient to occasion it. Its immense for rests, 
almost impervious by their exuberant luxuriance of vegeta- 
tion, excited by a tropical sun and humid atmosphere, are 
_ rendered inaccessible during a great part of the year by the 
torrents of rain that periodically fall, and oan from 
the higher grounds, form vast reservoirs on the in | 
S. Re : 
itive rudeness, and in penpdé cases with existing traits of the 
wildest ferocit 
In 
the course of my reshdohicg-¢ in-the. province of Lieut: 
rara, I became acquainted with a n st, Dr. 
eorge Schmidt, who has lived for a number of yearsin va 
5 1 
Geo 
eae = = ere and is now an ban 
er ¥ piak teas 320, and read bef e Lyceum, 2 
