oener4lL notes 139 



jiMted prejudice. Besides, D/ier/on, l)oi*ii in Karlsiiuirkt, 

 eastern Silesia, may liave been of Slav desceiif, a Pole, 

 So even llie ])i'ejndi('e ai»ains( liini niiiijlit have been ill 

 placed. 



Tn Iiis writin.ij^s, Falnv const an My ci'ilicised Darwin and 

 his theory of evolution, of constant chjinge, slow and 

 steady, due 1o Ww struggle for life and the survival of the 

 fittest. Nothing that Fabre saw served to convince him 

 of anything but the immutability of llie habits an 1 con- 

 ditions of the minute beings which he watched s(> care- 

 fully, and np(m which he wrote so interestingly. It 

 would have been worth while, if he and ])ar^^'in could 

 have been ]daced face to face for a few hours, and urged 

 to discuss their views. They were both accurate 

 naturalists and both aftei- the truth. They were 14 years 

 ai)art. Darwin was born in IStll) and Fabre in 1823. 

 Neither took things for granted, but while Darwin tried 

 to ex])]ain some of the phenomena which he saw, Fabre 

 left, at the end of his studies and his wonderful descrip 

 tions. what he himself calls '• an enoi-mous interrogation 

 point.'' 



r. P. Dad AX!-. 



E.riract from "American Bee JourHal", 

 fur /line, 1!)1S. p. 192. 



Laying Workers which Produce Fe.aiale Offspring. 



F>y JoHx Axi>ERSox. M.A., B.Sc. 



In Dr. Phillips' Beekeeping (1915), there are two 

 references (pp. 187, 203) to a paper by G. W. Oui- ns in 

 the Agricultural Journal of South Africa for ^fay, 1912. 

 Mr. Onions asserted that, among C'ape Black Bees, laying 

 workers occurred very frequently and from their eggs 

 drones, workers and queens were produced. This extra 

 ordinary claim seems to have attracted little attention at 



