To the scientific and literary press, and to the several gentlemen of scientific attainments connected therewith, who, by their influence and kind professional assistance, and promptitude in the furtherance of my interest, have greatly contributed to my success, my best thanks are due, _and are hereby respectfully tendered:_ amongst these I have sincere pleasure in particularizing Dr. BIRKBECK--the talented President of the London Mechanics' Institution,--Dr. HANCOCK--Fellow of the Medico-Botanical Society--a veteran of high and esteemed attainments,--and Mr. BOOTH--the popular Lecturer on Chemistry--a young man of first-rate abilities. To J. C. London--the erudite editor of the Gardeners' Magazine,--to E. J. Robertson, Esq.--the able and ingenious editor of the Mechanics' Magazine,--to Richard Newcomb--the editor and publisher of the Stamford Mercury,--and to the several editors of the Metropolitan and Provincial Press, who have made favourable mention of my labours, my public thanks are justly due,--and particularly to the editor of the Cambridge Quarterly Review, for a highly commendatory notice of my work, evidently written by a practical apiarian, and with competent knowledge of his subject, which appeared in No. 3 of that Review, published in March 1834. Also to my long-tried, worthy _Friend_--George Neighbour--it is gratifying to me to have this opportunity of offering my sincere thanks for his valuable services in my behalf;--and to the conductors of those excellent and useful institutions--the National Gallery of Practical Science, Adelaide Street,--and the Museum of National Manufactures, Leicester Square, London, I gratefully acknowledge myself to be under no slight obligations for the advantageous opportunities which I have there possessed of extending the knowledge of my system, and of exhibiting, year after year, to thousands of visitors, the products of my apiary.