the same side, and the three bases of the opposite 

 side of the partition wall of the combs, which wax the bees 

 had economized for building up the edges of such hexagonal 

 cell, making it look to be rounded by this addition, and 

 giving a ridge to commence closing in either the honey when 

 stored, or brood, when about to be transformed. This co- 

 coon, however, makes the cell take back its first round ap- 

 pearance, and, indeed, being attached to the sides and angles 

 of the cells, after forming the cradle of successive swarms 

 becomes so filled and round as to be small and useless. On 

 the issue of the perfect Queen, and the after consequences 

 of her raising a large colony of worker-bees, in number, 

 according to Schirach, from 70,000 to 80,000 eggs in one 

 season, and also the question of the drone I must leave for 

 another occasion, and merely observe that workers, or ama- 

 zons, as they have been called, which are less developed 

 females, also frequently lay drone or male eggs, but none 

 else ; and the Queen bee, if she delayed beyond the twenty- 

 first day, would also lay none but drone eggs, like the worker 

 or amazon, all her life after, and this worker we have seen 

 is twenty -one days old before she becomes a perfect bee, and 

 the Queen bee partakes of the same influences. Thus far 

 we have traced the life of the worker-bee and her sister, the 

 elected Queen-bee, from the egg-shell and the earlier ma- 

 turity of the latter, caused by the warmth and space of 

 cell and better feeding, giving her the advantages of com- 

 mencing the perfect state five days before her humble ama- 

 zon worker sister. There is also still a difi'erence as to the 

 result of these consequences, whereas the Queen-bee is per- 

 fected forty-six to forty-eight hours, or two days, after her 

 issue from the hive, and establishes her right to reign and 

 colonize it fully, she commences to give her sister bees the 

 duty of watching over and raising the brood from the eggs. 

 She has commenced laying in the worker cells (these are all 

 female eggs) up to a certain period of her existence, when 

 she commences laying a few hundreds of male eggs. This 

 wonderful discovery of a doctrine of Schii-ach's has long 



