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BRITISH BEES. 
tliat omnipotently wise and loving Providence in active 
operation throughout nature. 
No study like natural history, pursued in a humble 
and docile spirit, so harmoniously elicits the religion of 
the soul, or than which so fitly prepares it to enter, by 
the pathway of the works of God, the august temple of 
Ilis revealed Word. 
But to return : what we call science is the mere acci¬ 
dence of nature, which in fact aggravates our infirmity 
by permitting our intelligence to attempt to grasp, 
through the various details, their intricate combinations. 
But as truth sooner arises out of error if methodically 
pursued, and its results recorded, than out of confusion 
and guesswork, theories based upon observation, how¬ 
ever inaccurate at first, ultimately lead up to the certain 
acquisition of the truth itself. 
AN EASY DISTRIBUTION OF THE BEES, 
THE NUMBERS REFERRING TO THE SCIENTIFIC SERIES. 
Andrenid^e (Subnormal Bees). 
TONGUE SHORTER THAN THE MAXILLAE, PORRECT. 
Posterior tibiee clothed with hair to convey pollen. 
Two submarginal cells. 
Posterior legs very robust, pollini- 
ferous hair on tibiae and plantae 
dense but short. Macropis (7). 
Posterior legs slender; polliniferous 
hair on femora, tibiae, and plantae 
dense and very long . . . . , Dasypoda (8;. 
