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selves with the honey which is found in the various perforations, 

 as it floats up to the level of the honey contained in the small 

 filling-trough, through which the honey, or beer and sugar, is 

 poured. The glasses are covered with a straw cap, removable at 

 pleasure. 



Messrs. Neighbour's contributions are completed with tin 

 perforated fumigators, by the use of which the bees are stupefied 

 for a while, when required to be moved from one hive to another, 

 and specimens of honey and honeycomb of the season 1850. 



From the " Express." 



Bees and Bee-Hives. — In the North-East Gallery, directly 

 under the Transept, are arranged, by Messrs. Neighbour, of 

 Holborn, several descriptions of bee- hives, which it will be inte- 

 resting to many of our readers to examine, as this branch of 

 rural economy is claiming much general and deserved attention 

 throughout the country. The novelty of these hives consists in 

 the facilities that are afforded in taking therefrom, at any time of 

 the gathering season, the purest honey, without destroying or 

 even injuring the bees, thus humanely superseding the barbarous 

 and hateful system of murdering these interesting insects to obtain 

 the produce of their industry. 



Immediately adjoining the group of untenanted bee-hives may 

 be observed living hives with the bees most industriously at work. 

 These useful little creatures have been highly honoured by the 

 Executive Committee, for of all the animal workers that contri- 

 bute to the interest of the Exhibition, they alone are allowed 

 therein to display their matchless ingenuity and skill, By a 

 simple contrivance, the bees are allowed egress and ingress with- 

 out in the least degree molesting the visitors, thus enabling the 

 admirers of the works of nature to view the whole process of 

 forming the cells and depositing the honey therein. 



Within these few days, Messrs. Neighbour have added to the 

 Apiary a bee-hive constructed entirely of glass, protected by t 



