pat PREFACE. 
from which we take them. Those of Girard, for instance, 
are reduced copies of the beautiful chromos of Clerici, after 
the microscopic studies of Count G. Barbo, of Milan. Text- 
books are never entirely free from compilations of this kind. 
Having spared neither time nor expense to produce a 
book worthy of the father of American Apiculture, we hope 
that our work will be favorably received and will prove of 
some use in helping progress. 
THE REVISERS 
Decemsen, 1888 
