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BRITISH BEES. 
Early travellers and historians describe many kinds 
of honey made by these bees, native to the South 
American continent, but they report nothing of the 
peculiarities of the social economy of these insects, nor 
whether they are as closely allied in this respect to Apis, 
as they are in the collection of honey and wax. 
To enter into further detail relative to them would he 
beyond the province of this work, and I have only given 
this extremely superficial and brief notice of foreign 
genera, to show what multitudes of others of this in¬ 
teresting family await admiration and study, when some 
proficiency has been acquired in the knowledge of our 
own. 
