4 INTRODUCTION. 



the present day as the foremost apiarian of the English- 

 speaking race. But we are forced to admit that the 

 Germans bear the palm above us, for all the great advances 

 in our knowledge of the bee which have been made for 

 a generation have come from them. To Dr. Dzierzon,* 

 therefore, a Roman Catholic priest of Carlsmarkt in 

 Silesia, to whose acute investigations the great mass 

 of these are to be ascribed, must be conceded a rank 

 scarcely second to that of Huber; while Baron von 

 Berlepsch, of Coburg, who is ever ready to follow up 

 and improve upon the researches of the " great, master," 

 has beyond question earned for himself a position in- 

 ferior to that of the master alone. Of famous Scotch 

 writers we should allude to Bonner, of Glasgow, who 

 lived in the latter part of the last century, and the Rev. 

 Dr. Dunbar, who dates at the beginning of this. 



Of the mass of other names that press in upon us it 

 will be impossible in such narrow limits to supply any 

 details. The literature of the subject is truly enormous, 

 and all that we can do is to furnish a list in rough 

 chronological order of the more noteworthy of those 

 who have in some way rendered service to our acquaint- 



* Pronounced Dzeert-sohn. Some of the above names, it may not 

 be amiss to add, are not always sjjelt correctly by bee-writers. In 

 particular, nearly all of them, copying each other, omit the accent in 

 "Reaumur" (Ray-oh-mcwr), which we find French biographers 

 imanimous in inserting. We have also seen " Miraldi " in a recent 

 popular work, while one author had a fancy to write "Hiiber," 

 which is evidently a pure mistake. 



