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method of converting honey into the form of a crystalline 
sugar. Looking forward to the time, not, probably, far dis- 
tant, when honey will 
be produced as cheaply as raw sugar— 
honey may x 
oney may now 
I m1 be bought wholesale for seven cents per pound 
in Calitornia—ihe dealers hope to be able to provide a sub- 
stitute for glucose, which will equally well serve the purpose 
of the cook, the confectioner, and the brewer. 
F. 
BEES AND THEIR CouUNTERFEITS; oR, BEES, Cuckoo-Bzzs, 
AND FLy-BEEs. 
We here reprint from the Intellectual Observer of April, 
1862, an instructive and interesting article by Mr. H. Noel 
Humphreys :— 
No insect is so well known to our unentomological public as 
the hive-bee of North-Western Europe. All the habits, pecu- 
liarities, and interesting social arrangements of this insect have 
been popularised in a series of works, the public appetite for 
which never seems satiated, and so new volumes upon this 
never-failing theme, always possessing more or less merit, are 
continually issuing from the press. But although the natural 
history of our common hive-bee (Apis mellijica) has been thus 
rendered so familiar, the other members of the bee family have 
found but few popular historians, and less is generally known 
about them— except to entomologists—than about other far 
less interesting insect families. 
Yet there are many interesting peculiarities connected with 
different species of the bee tribe which would amply repay the 
cost of a little study. I may, therefore, within the limits of the 
present paper, call attention to a few remarkable kinds of 
British and foreign bees, more especially with reference to 
certain extraordinary resemblances which exist between some 
of the honey-collecting kinds and those belonging to the parasitic 
or cuckoo class; which will lead to the notice of still more 
curious resemblances that exist between bees and certain insects 
