[Footnote 21: "A Description of the Bar-and-Frame Hive invented by W. A. Munn, Esq.:" London, Van Voorst, 1844; 2nd ed. 1851. In his edition of Bevan's "Honey Bee," brought out in 1870, the Major tells us that he had been for some years engaged in connection with this distinguished author (and we presume Mr. Golding) in, the preparation of the above hive.] Having made allusion to the construction of the German hives it may be acceptable to some if we append a few additional particulars. According to Von Berlepsch, the depth should be about sixteen inches, the length twenty-eight, and the breadth only nine, so that the receptacle is high and narrow, and reaches a long way back. The frames, which fit crossways, are consequently much like our own turned up on end, or perhaps more frequently two frames are used, one as a story above the other. With the most approved hive (the "Lagerbeute") instead of supers the further end of the long box is partitioned off and goes by the name of the "honey-room." Then, as the only practical opening is at this end, not only must this "room" be cleared away equally with our supers before the brood frames can be got at, but none of these can be reached without taking out all the others that are in front of them. When supers _are_ used the frames can be extracted without interfering with these, so that some advantage might then result from such arrangement; but generally speaking this operation of removal is a rare necessity while the supers are on. In some cases extraction at the top may be the more convenient, and in others at the end; and we have therefore in our Philadelphia hive (§ xii.) endeavoured to unite the two advantages by supplying an opening both at the side and the top.