24^ SHOW-BOX FOR AMATEURS. 



while in either method ; fo that the opera- 

 tor muft be as expeditious as poIEble. Except 

 when the bees are kept in an empty hive 

 two or three days, it will make them extra- 

 ordinarily tame. 



Driving will be useful as a fucce- 

 daneum for puffs, in feafons or circumftance^ 

 when they cannot be had. 



To naturalists it may be of advan- 

 tage, by enabling them to inveftigate. the 

 properties of thefe wonderful but irritable, 

 infects, while in a flate of vigour, more fa- 

 tisfactorily than by fumigation or immer* 

 Jiotu 



No, XV. 



Show- Box for Amateurs. 



This box, or frami, is to be made of 

 rattan or mahogany, without top or bottom. 

 It is to be nine inches high, and two and a 

 quarter wide, clear in the infide, exadily; and 

 twelve long. There is to be a pane of clear 



glafs 



