I shall now advert to a few of the most interesting parts in the anatomy of the bee. In common with other insects, it has been divided into the head, the trunk, and the abdomen, or hinder part. The head is furnished with two eyes, two antennæ, or horns, as they are sometimes called, two feelers, and a proboscis, this latter comprising an intricate apparatus of which I shall speak presently. To the trunk are attached a double pair of gauze-like wings and six legs, the thighs of the hinder pair being each furnished with a small cavity fringed with hair, which serves as a basket for the conveyance of food for the young, &c. The hinder part contains the bowels, the honey-bag, the venom-bag, &c., and at its extremity a concealed sting, to which, as also to the proboscis, I have now to bespeak your attention, on account of their peculiar structure and uses. The proboscis has attached to it a very long tongue; it is also provided with several joints; by both these contrivances it is rendered capable of every variety of motion, and of probing to the very bottom of most flowers when searching for honey. And here we may pause to contemplate the very admirable contrivance by which this long implement, the tongue, which would otherwise have proved highly incommodious, is preserved from injury. The joints of which I have spoken enable it to fold itself up when at rest, and the desired protection is still further accomplished by means of a double sheath, in which the tongue, when unemployed, is always enclosed. There is much to excite our admiration in the manner in which the bees collect whatever they are in need of. Their first occupation in the earliest days of spring, as soon as breeding commences, is to collect the fertilising dust of flowers, known by the name of pollen or farina, and, as soon as they afford it, to procure honey from them; the latter chiefly for themselves, the former chiefly for their nurslings. I have often seen them, after rolling upon the anther-dust of the flowers, which their fine hairs enable them to retain upon their bodies, return home thus enveloped, having the appearance of a different kind of bee. This coating of pollen they brash off with their downy legs, or their companions do it for them, and apply it to the general purposes of the hive. Their ordinary mode of proceeding is to collect it into little heaps or pellets, and to transport it upon their thighs to their companions in the hive. That which is not wanted for present use is kneaded down with a little honey and stored in the cells, in which state it is called bee-bread.