MEMOIR OF HUBER. 
The Naturalist whose researches have been specially 
directed to the instinct and operations of the domestic 
Honey-Bee, will be strongly disposed to regard the 
subject of this memoir as at the very head of Apiarian 
science, and his writings as forming the safest and 
most useful text-book. Multitudes have written on 
this interesting department of Natural History, and 
have added more or less to our knowledge of what 
has been a subject of investigation for ages. But 
none, either in ancient or modern times, have dis- 
played so much sagacity of research as Francis Huber, 
nor so much patient perseverance and accuracy of 
experiment, even admitting some errors of minor 
importance detected by succeeding observers. His 
success in discovery, notwithstanding the singular 
difficulty he had to struggle with, was proportioned 
to his intelligence and acuteness ; and this difficulty 
arose, not from what some of his advocates hare, in 
their zeal in his defence against the sneers of the 
sceptical, termed “ imperfect vision,” but from total 
blindness. For, from the period when he first applied 
