314 Recent Literature. e [ May, 
bee are given, viz: the common black of Central Europe, ae 
and the Egyptian, which is also found in Asia Minor, and s 
posed to be the species spoken of in the Bible. The systematic 
_ position and relations of the creature also receive attention. 
In describing the apparatus used in their management, we notice 
that most of it is such as has been thrown aside and superseded 
in this country by simpler or more effective contrivances. ‘The 
“ queen yard” as used by Quinby and improved by Mrs. Farn- 
am, “ queen cages,” “ breeding hives” are not mentioned. This 
fact taken with what the editors saw at the Centennial Exposition 
in the way of apparatus, from England principally, leads him to 
conclude that American bee-keepers are far ahead of their Euro- 
pean brethren in the perfection of appliances to render the pur- 
suit of apiculture profitable. 
BREHM’S ANIMAL Lire}—This volume completes the account 
of the Carnivora, and treats of the Insectivora, Rodentia, Edentata, 
E 
Fic. 1. SKELETON OF THE KANGAROO. 
> 5 Breakers Thierlebe en. Band 2. Grosse Ausgabe. Zweite umgearbeitete et 
o Yor, Auflager. Leipzic, 1877. 8vo, pp. 628. B. Westerman & Co. 
