He states it to be in use in the neighbourhood of Mount Hymettus. "The hives," says he, "in which they keep their bees, are made of willow or osiers fashioned like our common dust-baskets, wide at top and narrow at bottom." "These tops are covered with broad flat sticks, along which the bees fasten their combs, so that a comb may be taken out whole." We are informed, by Reaumur and Du Hamel, that this Greek method of keeping bees and taking honey was introduced into France in 1754. If it had succeeded, either in France or in this country, I think we should have heard more of it. The only way in which I conceive that Huish's idea can be followed up effectually, is, by employing the experimental hive of Huber; but the majority of persons who undertake the management of bees, will look to them as a source of profit; and to these the expense of such a hive would render it completely unavailable. Huber's first experiments were made in single leaf-hives an inch and a half wide; his latter trials, on several of these connected together, each an inch and a quarter wide, which left the same room for the passage of the bees as the single hive. See Chapter XI. Reaumur's hives consisted of wooden frames, with glass windows, but of such a width, as to allow the bees to construct two combs parallel to each other. This form is unfavourable, inasmuch as it conceals from the observer whatever passes between them. Mr. Thorley, who practised the plan of super-hiving, surmounted his _octagon boxes_ and flat-topped hives, with a _large bell-glass_, over which he placed a common straw-hive, to take on and off. From an extract which I have made from Dr. Evans's book in the chapter on Instincts, he appears to have adopted this method. It was by the aid of similar glasses that Maraldi was enabled to give to the world so accurate an account of the natural history and labours of bees. "Long from the eye of man and face of day, Involv'd in darkness all their customs lay, Until a Sage, well vers'd in Nature's lore, A genius form'd all science to explore, Hives well contriv'd in crystal frames dispos'd, And there the busy citizens inclos'd." +Murphy's Vaniere.+