A GENERAL VIEW 



OF THE 



HISTORY AND PHYSIOLOGY 



OF 



THE BEE. 



PART I. 



CHAPTER I. 

 HISTORY AND PHYSIOLOGY. 



1 HE BEE is considered by Naturalists as belong- 

 ing to what are called perfect societies of insects, 

 and, in entomological arrangements, is placed in 

 the order Hymenoptera, genus Apis. Of this 

 genus there are many species ; Linnaeus has enu- 

 merated 55 ; in the Dictionnaire des Sciences 

 Naturelles 70 species are characterized ; and Mr. 

 Kirby, in his Monographia Apum Angliae, has 

 described above 220, natives of England. The 

 species to which I shall principally call the atten- 

 tion of my readers is the domestic HONEY-BEE. 

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