Natural History of the Honey-Bee. 
CHAPTER I. 
THe BeE’s PLACE IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 
It is estimated by Heer and other eminent naturalists, 
that there are more than 250,000 species of living animals. 
It will be both interesting and profitable to look in upon 
this vast host, that we may know the position and relation- 
ship of the bee to all this mighty concourse of life. 
BRANCH OF THE HONEY-BEE. 
The great French naturalist, Cuvier, a friend of Napo- 
leon I., grouped all animals which exhibit a ring structure 
into one branch, appropriately named Articulates, as this 
term indicates the jointed or articulated structure which 
so obviously characterizes most of the members of this 
group. . . 
The terms joint and articulation, as used here, have a 
technical meaning. They refer not only to the hinge or 
place of union of two parts, but also to the parts themselves. 
Thus, the parts of an insect’s legs, as well as the surfaces 
of unions, are’ styled joints or articulations. All apia- 
rists who have examined carefully the structure of a bee, 
will at once pronounce it an Articulate. Not only is its 
body, even from head to sting, composed of joints, but by 
close inspection we find the legs, the antennz,.and even 
the mouth-parts, likewise jointed. 
In this branch we also place the Crustacea—which 
include the rollicking cray-fish, or lobster, so indifferent as 
to whether he moves forward, backward or sidewise, the 
shorter crab, the sow-bug, lively and plump, even in its 
dark, damp home under old boards, and the barnacles, 
which fasten to the bottom of ships, so that vessels are 
often freighted with life without as well as within. 
The worms, too, are Articulates, though in some of 
