MIGRATIONS OP BEES, 



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and a singular spectacle it is to see from twelve to 

 forty thousand bees thus conglomerated in a living 

 mass. 



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Swarm of 40,000 bees on a branch of fig-tree, with Reaumur's apparatus 

 for weighing them, and coiiiputuig their number. 



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