HISTORIC SKETCH. 



Which pillage, they, with merry march, bring home 



To the tent-royal of their emperor : 



Who, busied in his majesty, surveys 



The singing masons building roofs of gold ; 



The civil citizens kneading up the honey ; 



The poor mechanic- porters crowding in 



Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate ; 



The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, 



Delivering o'er to executors pale 



The lazy yawning drone." 



Of more recent writers we may mention the French 

 Reaumur; the Swiss, Bonnet; and Huber, of Geneva, 

 who, with his assistant Burnens, gave the world so 

 many wondrous details of bee-life and habits. In 

 our own country, Dr. John Hunter, Dr. John Evans, 

 who has been called the " poet-laureate of bees," 

 Shuckard, Sir John Lubbock, Cowan, John Hunter, 

 Taylor, Cheshire, Alfred Neighbour, Pettigrew, 

 Abbott, and many writers in the British Bee Journal, 

 have largely added to our apiarian knowledge. Not 

 only in America, but universally, the Rev. L. L. 

 Langstroth, of Ohio, has a well-earned reputation 

 for his researches and his practical instructions 

 with regard to apiculture. In Germany, Dr. Dzierzon 

 of Carlsmarkt, in Silesia, and Baron von Berlepsch, 

 of Coburg, stand at the very head of authorities on 

 all that relates to bees and bee-keeping. 



