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his very intelligent and painstaking assistant, Burnens 

 to accumulate a long series of minute observations which 

 have brought about an entire revolution in the science. 

 In connection with Huber must be mentioned Mile. 

 Jurine, who, by her delicate microscopic examinations, 

 rendered him the most important services, and gave more 

 than one valuable discovery to the world. At the same 

 period lived Dr. John Evans, who may be fitly styled 

 the poet-laureate of the bee. His poem, " The Bees,'' 

 from which we shall make numerous quotations, is written 

 with great taste, and combines, with rare felicity, scientific 

 accuracy of detail with a poetic spirit which never flags.* 

 A litde later than these, though in- part their con- 

 temporar}', came Dr. Bevan, whose name is still cited as 

 among the highest authorities on the subject, and whose 

 work, "The Honey Bee,'' was regarded as its great text- 

 book in our language, till superseded, with the progress 

 of discoveries, by one under the same title from the pen 

 of the Rev. L. L. Langstroth. This last gentleman, who 

 is a Presbyterian minister in Ohio, stands undoubtedly at 



* Dr. Evans's poem consisted of four parts, of which only three 

 were ever published. We possess an author's presentation copy in 

 which is a written memorandum that the manuscript of the remainder 

 had been prepared for the press, and was still in the keeping of the 

 family. We have flmtten numerous letters with a view to tracking 

 it out for pubUcation ; but very recently we have leamt that the only 

 survivor of nine children is unable at present to discover the where- 

 abouts of the document. Dr. Evans was some time a physician at 

 Shrewsbury, but removed into and died in Wales. 



