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being hybridized, produce hybrid males as well as 
hybrid workers. 
I have the pleasure of submitting specimens of the 
drones and workers of the hybridized queens along with 
those of the origimal pure queen, and it will be at once 
manifest to the members of the Society, that there is a 
very marked and decided difference. 
I deem it necessary here, for the same reason which in- 
duced me to refer to the purity of the Italian colonies 
received from Mr. Woodbury, to refer also to the Egyptian 
queen now in my possession, which was the first sent to 
England by Herr Vogel, to whom the Berlin Acclimatisa- 
tion Society had deputed the task of multiplying and 
disseminating the race ; for itis of the utmost importance, 
in an experimental point of view, to be assured that any 
variety of bee which we propagate is really pure and free 
from all taint. The following is Herr Vogel’s description 
of the queen to Mr. Woodbury :—“ The Egyptian queen 
which you received from me was reared in June last ; 
she is, therefore, about four months old. This queen has 
received a true impregnation, because the mothers that 
were reared from her brood here produced true Egyp- 
tians. I sent you this queen, because the queens that 
were thus reared became all beautiful and true Heyp- 
tians.” 
From these observations and proofs, which, by the 
kindness of your distinguished President, I am permitted 
the pleasure of submitting to the members of the Ento- 
mological Society, I think I am warranted in coming to 
the conclusion, that the eggs of a hybridized queen, 
whether they develop into drones or workers, are in 
some way influenced and affected by the act of fecunda- 
tion, and that both sexes of the progeny partake of the 
paternal and maternal character or race. If this is 
assented to, it follows that Dzierzon’s theory of repro- 
duction in the bee—based as it avowedly is upon the 
principle that eggs which develop into drones bring the 
erm of life alone from the ovary of the queen, are not 
affected by the male semen, and, consequently, that the 
males produced by all queens, whether fecundated or not, 
must necessarily follow the race of the mother—cannot 
be the true theory of reproduction in the honey bee. 
It may appear presumptuous in the writer of these 
observations to call in question the accuracy of some 
of those points upon which so eminent an apiarian as 
