THE CAMERA 



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A Colony of Unprotected Bees. 



Occasionally we have reports of bees 

 that do not know enough to go into a 

 natural or an artificial home in sun- 

 shine or in rain. A few years ago a 

 swarm of bees made their home on the 

 outside of the roof peak of the Method- 



HONEYCOMB OUTDOORS. 



ist Church in Portland, Connecticut. 

 They were there for several weeks, 

 "plastering" over much of the white 

 surface of the building and were only 

 slightly protected in the upper part by 

 the projecting peak. 



Occasionally the apiarian period- 

 icals publish illustrations of unprotec- 

 ted bees and comb on branches' of 

 trees. One of the most remarkable is 

 the accompanying taken from "Glean- 

 ings in Bee Culture," and sent to that 

 magazine by Dr. H. A. Surface of 

 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The pho- 

 tographer, Mr. Deck Lane of Ebens- 

 burg, Pennsylvania, sends a duplicate 

 photograph to The Guide to Nature. 

 and writes as follows : 



"The 'bee comb' was discovered by 

 Mr. E. G. Miller, about two miles west 

 of Ebensburg, while out fox hunting. 

 It was in a 'clearing' and was discov- 

 ered in the fall after the leaves had. 

 fallen, as the photograph shows. Mr. 

 Miller has previously seen practically 

 the same thing, but never so large and 

 perfect a comb. The view is the east 

 side of comb." 



A Ferocious Jungle Animal. 



San Antonio, Texas. 

 To the Editor : — 



I am sending your great educational 

 magazine an unusual caricature pho- 

 tograph of "a most ferocious looking 

 jungle animal" — the full face view of 

 a Texas wild cat ! How was it pre- 

 pared? Simply by "bad luck" in the 



a camera catastrophe. 



handling of the original fine negative. 

 The bad luck entered during the dry- 

 ing process after I had used an inten- 

 sifier solution. The room in which the 

 wet plate was left to dry was not too 

 warm but soon after placing it before 

 a window pane, I noticed that the gel- 

 atine was shriveling around the image 

 of the head, but leaving the face parts 

 unchanged. 



Dr. R. Menger. 



