294 Bibliographical Notices. 



Observations suvles Abeilles' in an English dress in 1806, we know 

 of no treatise on the subject equal to the ' Honey-Bee' for accuracy of 

 information in respect to the natural history of the insect and minute- 

 ness of practical detail. 



The work is divided into two parts, of the first of which nearly 50 

 pages are occupied with a general view of the history and physiology 

 of the bee, as far as relates to the personal description of the three 

 essential members of the bee community, viz. the queen, the worker, 

 and the male or drone, particularly as respects the impregnation of 

 the queen, the effects of its retardation, and the laying and hatching 

 of the eggs. The author then proceeds to give detailed instructions 

 for the practical management of the bee, comprehending descriptions 

 of the oeconomy of the apiary, of the best form of hives, of the mode 

 of proceeding during the season of swarming, of feeding, protecting, 

 and transporting the bees at the proper periods, and of the manipu- 

 lation of honey and wax. 



In Part II. Dr. Bevan gives an account of the anatomy of the bee ; 

 enters into a more enlarged detail of its physiology than had been given 

 in Part I., and discusses at considerable length, and with great per- 

 spicuity, the senses, instincts, and the wonders of its architecture. 



The work is distinguished by sound philosophical views, and is 

 written in a style of classical elegance and simplicity. The author 

 professes not to offer much in the way of original discovery, but to 

 give a popular view of the present state of apiarian knowledge, hi- 

 storical, physiological, and practical ; and that he has succeeded in 

 his object, the well- deserved popularity of his book, and the conse- 

 quent call for a new edition, furnish abundant evidence. The first 

 edition was deficient in point of arrangement ; this has been satis- 

 factorily remedied : many particulars connected with the natural hi- 

 story of the insect, formerly stated but briefly, have been enlarged or 

 modified conformably with the more advanced state of the science, 

 and some additional directions have been given as to practical ma- 

 nagement, which well deserve the attention of the bee-master. 



Plantce Javanicce Rariores, descriptee iconibusque illustrat(E, quas in 

 Insula Java, annis 1802 — 1818, legit et investigavit T. Horsfield, 

 M.D. e siccis descriptiones et characteres plurimarum elaboravit J.J. 

 Bennett ; observationes structuram et affinitates prasertim respi- 

 cientes passim adjecit R. Brown. Part I. — Allen and Co., Leaden- 

 hall Street, 1838. 



[Continued from p. 222.] 



^ The twelfth article relates to Conocephalus suaveolcns, BL, a genus 

 referrible to Mr. Brown's family of Artocarpea, and nearly related 



