OPERATION, OR MADE ANY ADEQUATE PROVISION FOR. "This humane practice partakes not of the _driving_, nor of the _fumigating_, nor of the _robbing_ system. It is a _liberal principle_ of Bee-cultivation, founded on _humanity_. And it is by such practice that we must succeed, if we hope to be benefited in the culture of Honey-Bees." CHAPTER VI. INVERTED-HIVE. Many useful discoveries have been made by accident;--and to some of the greatest and grandest of those discoveries even philosophers and men of science have been led by accidents apparently the most trifling and insignificant. To the playful tricks of some little children that astonishing and most scientific instrument--the telescope, it is said, owes its origin; and it is said also that that great and good man--Sir Isaac Newton was led to investigate the laws of gravitation by accidentally observing an apple topple to the ground from the twig that had borne it. One of the sweetest of our poets, however, informs us--that All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee, All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see. If, therefore, a beautifully delicate honey-comb suspended from the stool of a hive first led me to discover the utility of ventilation in a colony of Bees, though there may be nothing very surprising, there is, I trust,--nay, I am convinced, and therefore I assert--there is something very useful in it: and if an accident of another description induced me to endeavour to turn it to advantage, there is nothing to be greatly wondered at. So, however, it happened; and here follows the account of it.