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mode of procedure. Should it be a first visit, the httle busy 

 creature is for a time quite at a loss : it, of course, scents the 

 honey, but cannot discover the entrance to the store-house. 

 Convinced that there is plenty of the object of its search in the 

 flower, the Bee hurries over the surface in all directions, now 

 running its head fast between the corolla and the outer double 

 series of the rays of the nectary, now entangling itself amongst 

 the beautiful rays themselves, and anon mounting the stipes 

 and ransacking the parts of fructification. At length, after a 

 bustling scene, which frequently lasts for two or three minutes, 

 and which the Bee's certainty that honey is concealed some- 

 where in the neighbourhood prevents its quitting in despair, 

 sometimes apparently by mere chance, at others by running 

 the scent home, its indefatigable labours are rewarded. Now, 

 with its tongue inserted amongst the rays surrounding the 

 shaft, and past the projecting rim which almost closes the 

 entrance to the tube of the calyx, it drinks its fill, and flies off" 

 for the hive to deposit its treasure and profit by experience on 

 a future trip. Far different is the manner of the Bee that has 

 been at the work before ; it wastes not a moment of the time, 

 which the approach of winter renders doubly valuable, but at 

 once alights on the flower, runs to its centre, and plunging its 

 tongue into the liquid sweet, hurries back loaded to the hive. 

 Yours, &c. George Wailes. 



68. Death of Mr. Haworth. — Adrian Hardy Haworth, a 

 Fellow of the Linnsean and Horticultural Societies of London, 

 and author of Lepidoptei-a Britannica, and several Essays on 

 various subjects connected with Zoology and Botany, died of 

 cholera, on Saturday, the 24th of August, 1833, aged QG. 

 The previous evening he had enjoyed his usual health. Mr. 

 Haworth was sincerely and justly esteemed by a large portion 

 of the scientific world. 



69. Discovery of Sphinx Nerii in England. — Sir, Another 

 addition has been made to our visiting Sjihingidce, by the 

 capture of the splendid Deihphila (may I call it ?) Nerii, at 

 Dover, about ten days since. From the state of the specimen 

 which I have this day examined it must have been very 

 recently disclosed, the tips of its wings and the top of its 

 head alone being slightly injured by its captor, a lady residing 



