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their loads of pollen and honey under the glass. 
Their good behaviour earned for them a first prize. 
The vibration of the railway journey from Dover 
to Maidstone upset the colonies a little at first ; 
but the queens soon returned to their brood, and, 
on the return journey, one of them was so reconciled 
to the motion that she laid a batch of eggs in the 
train ! 
When queens grow elderly and their prolificness 
declines, they lose their desire to fight one another. 
On July 25, 1910, I added a fratorum queen from 
a declining nest to a strong nest of the same species. 
The two queens lived happily together until one of 
them died on August 15. Two /agzdarius queens 
from strong nests, put together on August 7, also 
remained friendly. 
From July 15 to 27, when the above-mentioned 
pratorum nest was at the height of its strength, the 
weather was very unfavourable, with strong cold 
winds, the temperature often failing to exceed 60° F., 
and there was very little sunshine ; yet even on the 
worst days a fair quantity of honey was gathered 
and stored in the cells, although during this period 
my honey-bees not only failed to gather honey, but 
consumed all previously gathered stores, and had 
to be fed to avoid starvation. 
The comb and nest of each species have a 
distinct smell, although to our imperfect olfactory 
sense the differences do not in all cases seem great, 
and we have no words to describe them; the bees, 
too, have a distinct smell, which is not unlike that 
