AUTHOR’S CONCLUSION. 
In the foregoing pages I have given an outline of 
my own experience in the general management of 
bees, freely availing myself of such further informa- 
tion, derived from the most trustworthy sources, as 
seemed most likely to interest and instruct the 
reader. My aim, however, has been restricted 
primarily to matters of a practical bearing, passing 
over the obsolete speculations of bygone periods, 
and relying on the superior intelligence of a later 
day. Those who wish to enter more fully into the 
natural history and physiology of the bee may 
consult a variety of works, at the head of which it 
is usual to place that of Huber; followed by the 
later comprehensive and highly satisfactory one, 
“The Honey Bee,” of the late Dr. Bevan; both 
publications to which we have often had occasion to 
refer.* That portion of the subject relating to the 
structure and arrangement of their combs and cells 
is treated of at considerable length by Lord Brougham, 
in his “ Dissertations on Subjects of Science con- 
nected with Natural Theology.” Perhaps the very 
accurate observations and elaborate mathematical 
* Much more recent information will be derived from Samuelson’s 
“Honey Bee,” whic, however, is exclusively contined to the natural 
history of the insect, and does not touch apiculture. If the editor may 
be pardoned the vanity, he would also refer to the third edition of 
Neichbour’s “ Apiary,” the chapter in which upon ‘“‘ Anatomy and 
Physiology” he himself most laboriously revised by means of the best 
authorities, finally deciding disputed matters by a personal consultation 
with the late Mr. Frederic Smith—whose loss to science has occurred 
while this edition was passing through the press. 
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