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of Huber. Its information is founded on direct experimental 

 knowledge, and cannot fail to carry conviction to every un- 

 prejudiced mind, on several of the contested points in the 

 natural history of the bee. We recommend it to the im- 

 mediate perusal and to the serious study of Mr. Duncan ; 

 and should he ever be called upon to compile another work 

 on the history of the bee, he will then perhaps hesitate before 

 he allows himself to be so servilely led by the crude and fal- 

 lacious statements of Huber. 



