ADVERTISEMENT. 



THE work which is now submitted to the judge- 

 ment of the public, in addition to other faults with 

 which it will no doubt be justly chargeable, may 

 be thought by many to be defective in arrange- 

 ment; and if the author had aimed to produce a 

 purely scientific work, he would consider such 

 charge as being well founded : but in making a 

 humble attempt to afford a popular view of the 

 present state of apiarian knowledge, historical, 

 physiological and practical, he conceived that he 

 should most effectually attain his object by min- 

 gling the different departments together, particu- 

 larly where the two former would serve to illus- 

 trate or explain the rationale of the latter. More- 

 over, his first intention was not to offer much more 

 to the public than is contained in Part I. of the 

 work ; but the materials grew upon his hands, 

 and consequently after that part was modelled, he 

 was induced by the very great interest which was 



