Note 2 — CHAP. XII. OBSERVATIONS ON THOSE INSECTS THAT LIVE IN REPUBLICS.

I rather think the author here alludes to the distressing state of his father, who has, for many years, laboured under the greatest of bodily privations—loss of sight. His ardour in the investigation of his favourite subject, suffered no diminution. A faithful domestic attended, and gave him information of what was passing in the interior of his glass-hives.—T.