Gedde and Warder were succeeded by the Rev. +John Thorley+ of Oxford, who published "_An Enquiry into the Nature, Order, and Government of Bees_;" and by the Rev. +Stephen White+ of Halton in Suffolk, who wrote on "_Collateral Bee-boxes, or an easy and advantageous method of managing Bees_." Collateral boxes have been objected to, because bees, when the boxes are on a level, have laid their eggs promiscuously in both; moreover side boxes occupy a great deal more room than storifying boxes. Mr. +Thorley's son+ improved the method of his father. The indefatigable Mr. +Wildman+ devoted much of his time to the same subject: to him we are principally indebted for the present perfection of bee-boxes, and particularly for obtaining fresh honey throughout the season, by means of small glasses ranged upon a flat-topped hive. _Vide_ pages 93 and 99. "But faintly, Rome, thy waxen cities shone Through the dim lantern or refractive stone, And faintly Albion saw her film-wing'd train Glance evanescent through the latticed pane. Ere Wildman's art unveil'd the straw girt round, Its broad expanse with crystal vases crown'd, And each full vase, like Amalthæa's horn, For Man successive graced the festal morn." +Evans.+ +Madame Vicat+, a very ingenious lady in Switzerland, published, in the Memoirs of the Berne Society, some very judicious _Observations on bees and hives_. She was the first who hinted, that upon the storifying plan, the duplets and triplets should always be placed under the full hives; as the bees, in constructing fresh works, evidently prefer descending to ascending. Lastly, we have Mr. +Keys's+ very useful book, "_The ancient Bee-master's Farewell_," which has long been a standard work to the practical apiarian. Keys states, that upon the storifying plan, three pecks of bees will collect more honey in a season, than four pecks divided into two families, upon the common plan, and that the proportion of pure honey and pure wax will likewise be greater. He observes, that a good storified colony has, under favourable circumstances, received an accession of thirty pounds of honey in seven days; whereas if a swarm had been sent off, the increase, in the same period, would not, probably, have been more than five pounds.