58 Entomological Society. 



material would be only about four pounds, an amount, which, if com- 

 pressed, the farmer might with ease have carried home in one of his 

 coat-pockets ! "—P. 39. 



Eli^ Fries Summa VegetaUUum Scandinavia. Holmiae et Lipsiae. 



A new work by Prof. Fries of Upsala — need we say more in its 

 recommendation ? It may however be as well to mention the cha- 

 racter of its contents. 



It has long been known that Fries was contemplating a Flora of 

 Scandinavia, i.e., as he defines it, " inter mare occidentale et album, 

 inter Eidoram et Nordkap." The present may be considered as the 

 forerunner of such a work, since it contains a complete catalogue of 

 Scandinavian plants accompanied by a tabular view of their distri- 

 bution. This is followed by a synopsis of such species as are either 

 not contained in the invaluable * Synopsis Florae Germanicse ' of Koch, 

 or are considered by Fries to require further elucidation or correction. 

 In short it may be considered, as observed by its author, to be an 

 extension of the ' Synopsis Florae Germanicae,' which is bounded on 

 the north by the Baltic Sea and the river Eyder, from that river, 

 through Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Lapland and Norway, to the 

 North Cape. It is therefore essential to all who make use (and what 

 botanist does not ?) of Koch's Synopsis. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 



[Continued from vol. xviii. p. 473.] 

 September 1st, 1845. — The Rev. F. W. Hope, President, in the Chair. 



*' Further notes on the Honey-bee." By Mr. Golding and Dr. 

 Bevan. 



In this communication Mr. Golding again affirmed that the first 

 swarm from a hive is led off by the queen-bee. He considered that 

 it was chiefly owing to the striking peculiarity in the royal cells that 

 the insects developed therein are so different from the ordinary indi- 

 viduals in the hive. He adopts the opinion of Hiiber, that the great 

 number of males in a hive is rendered necessary in order to ensure 

 the fecundation of the virgin queen in her flight in the air, and 

 that the law of primogeniture seems to be followed strictly in the 

 emigration of young queens. From the fact that the long piping 

 note of a young queen at liberty may be heard — but with short in- 

 tervals of a minute or two — without intermission, from the time of 

 her hatching until she comes off^ with the swarm, together with their 

 having been seen to leave the hive in a day or two after being hived, 

 he thinks it may be safely inferred that impregnation in the case of 

 the young emigrant queen takes place after she becomes sovereign 

 in her own right, and that she never leaves the hive until accom- 

 panying the swarm. 



